As improvements in living conditions and advances in modern medicine lead to increased life expectancy and the number of older adults world-wide continues to grow, so the number of older individuals with cardiac and cerebrovascular disease is rising. Over eighty per cent of all cardiovascular disease-related deaths now occur in patients aged sixty five or older.? The high prevalence of co-morbidities, frailty and cognitive decline amongst older patients requires that a holistic approach to the management of cardiovascular disease is required.
Written and edited by leading experts in the field, ?Cardiovascular diseases and health in the older patient? provides scholarly evidence and data which explain why treating an older patient with cardiovascular disease is often different from treating a young or middle-aged patient with the same disease. ?The chapters have been updated and expanded from the cardiovascular section of the renowned ?Pathy?s Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine?, edited by Alan J. Sinclair, John E. Morley and Bruno Vellas. ?The revised chapters contain updated evidence and references to recent clinical practice guidelines in Europe and North America, this book provides complete, authoritative information on this major cause of death, poor health and disability in old age.?
Covering the epidemiology, pathophysiology and management of cardiovascular disease in the older patient, the book is an excellent reference at all clinical and pre-clinical levels and will appeal particularly to geriatricians, cardiologists, and GPs, as well as cardiac specialist nurses and practice nurses.
With a Foreword by Stuart M. Cobbe.
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Content:
Chapter 1 Epidemiology of Heart Disease (pages 1?28): Ahmed H. Abdelhafiz
Chapter 2 Cardiac Ageing and Systemic Disorders (pages 29?43): David J. Stott and Terence J. Quinn
Chapter 3 Hypertension (pages 44?67): Anthony S. Wierzbicki and Adie Viljoen
Chapter 4 Lipid Management (pages 68?89): Adie Viljoen and Anthony S. Wierzbicki
Chapter 5 Arrhythmias (pages 90?134): Abhay Bajpai and A. John Camm
Chapter 6 Hypotension (pages 135?151): Suraj Alakkassery
Chapter 7 Ischaemic Heart Disease (pages 152?171): Wilbert S. Aronow
Chapter 8 Heart Failure (pages 172?201): Michael W. Rich
Chapter 9 Cardiac Surgery (pages 202?233): Ulrich O. von Oppell and Adam Szafranek
Chapter 10 Cardiac Rehabilitation (pages 234?260): Niccolo Marchionni, Francesco Fattirolli, Francesco Orso, Marco Baccini, Lucio A. Rinaldi and Giulio Masotti
Chapter 11 Acute Stroke Care and Management of Carotid Artery Stenosis (pages 261?298): David Doig and Martin M. Brown
Chapter 12 Stroke Rehabilitation (pages 299?328): Lalit Kalra
Chapter 13 Communication Disorders and Dysphagia (pages 329?344): Pamela M. Enderby
Chapter 14 Peripheral Arterial Disease (pages 345?365): Leocadio Rodriguez?Manas, Marta Castro Rodriguez and Cristina Alonso Bouzon
Chapter 15 Venous Thromboembolism (pages 366?375): Gordon D. O. Lowe
Chapter 16 Planning Cardiovascular Investigations and Management of Older People (pages 376?393): Jennifer K. Harrison, Terence J. Quinn and David J. Stott
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