Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly

By: Franz H. Messerli (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2009

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After a certain age, one is elderly, aged, venerable, and patriarchal. Or just plain old. When I became old, I did not know it. I do know it now because of a syndrome of which I had previously been unaware. It is quite simple-when it hurts, it works; when it doesn't hurt, it doesn't work! Writing about the old is a preoccupation of the young, and that is as it should be because it is the young who must carry the burden of the old. I don't know the average age of the contributors to Franz Messerli's book, but I would guess it to be less than 50, which to me is positively pubescent! For many years I thought geriatric medicine was nonsense, and today I still think some of it is. What changes with age are principally the attitude and purposes of the individual and how much energy he or she has to carry out those purposes. It isn't so much that the goals, ambitions, and desire to alter or improve the world disappear; they just diminish along with what it takes to accomplish them. Which brings me to one particular aspect of aging, that is, the cardiovascular system. The first evidence of the cardiovascular system's aging is the failure of the heart to respond to the demands placed on it.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Medicine Geriatric Medicine

Contributing Authors
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface
Introduction: Older People and Cardiovascular Illness	p. 1
Epidemiology	p. 9
Pathophysiology of the Aging Heart and Circulation	p. 27
Clinical Findings in the Elderly Heart Patient	p. 59
Diagnostic Testing for Cardiovascular Diseases	p. 73
Heart Failure	p. 91
Hypertension	p. 121
Hypertensive Emergencies	p. 145
Disturbances of Cardiac Rhythm	p. 163
Heart Block/Cardiac Pacing	p. 195
Postural Hypotension and Syncope	p. 211
Valvular Heart Disease in the Elderly	p. 231
Coronary Artery Disease	p. 253
Acute Myocardial Infarction	p. 275
Diseases of the Myocardium, Pericardium, and Endocardium	p. 293
Diseases of the Aorta and Arterial Tree	p. 331
Cardiac Manifestations of Noncardiac Disease	p. 375
Psychological Adaptation to Cardiovascular Disease	p. 401
Ethical Considerations	p. 413
Risk Modification	p. 423
Dietary Considerations in the Elderly: Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease	p. 435
Exercise and Rehabilitation in Elderly Cardiac Patients	p. 453
Medical Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease	p. 473
Interventional Cardiology	p. 499
Surgery in the Aged	p. 531
Cardiac Transplantation in Older Patients: Changing Perspectives	p. 555
Index	p. 563
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