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Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Preface
1 Demography 3
2 Epidemiology 7
3 Economics and Health Policy 31
4 Communicating with Elderly People 47
5 Clinical Examination 67
6 Echocardiography 91
7 Clinical Electrocardiography and Electrophysiology in the Elderly 131
8 Ambulatory Electrocardiography in the Elderly Patient 159
9 The Chest Radiograph 171
10 Cardiac Catheterization 215
11 Cardiac Nuclear Imaging 229
12 Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging 241
13 Cardiovascular Pathology in Old Age 263
14 Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System 273
15 Pharmacological Aspects of Cardiac Drug Treatment in the Elderly 289
16 Hypertension in the Elderly 301
17 Ischaemic Heart Disease in the Elderly 333
18 Valve Disease in the Elderly 371
19 Muscle Disease 393
20 Cardiac Arrhythmias in the Elderly 413
21 Metabolic and Endocrine Disease in the Elderly 437
22 Faints and Falls: Pathophysiology and Clinical Evaluation of Syncope in the Elderly 485
23 The Heart and Stroke Disease 525
24 Congestive Heart Failure in the Elderly 541
25 Chest Pain 557
26 Dyspnoea 579
27 Drug Treatment 593
28 Surgery 623
29 Cardiac Pacing: General Overview and Specific Considerations for Pacing in the Elderly 649
30 Interventional Techniques 691
31 Fitness for Anaesthesia and Surgery in the Elderly Cardiac Patient 707
32 Quality of Life: Its Relevance and Applicability to Elderly Patients with Cardiac Illness 721
33 A North American Perspective 739
34 Ethical Considerations 759
35 Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Cardiovascular Research in the Elderly: An American Perspective 771
Index 783