Aging Issues in Cardiology (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, #250)

Author: Irene D. Turpie
Published: January 2004
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 1402076746
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 214

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Turpie and Heckman, both affiliated with the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McMaster University's Department of Medicine, provide an overview of the practical clinical areas involved in managing cardiovascular disease in the elderly. Of interest to cardiologists, geriatricians, general internists, and family physicians, the book reviews the epidemiology of aging and its association with increased risk for cardiac disease, then deals with related aspects of delirium, frailty, and depression. Pharmacological issues, such as benefits and risks of anticoagulation therapy, are examined, and prevention of cardiovascular events is stressed. Contributors are all affiliated with McMaster University, Canada.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Ch. 1 Aging and Heart Disease 1
Ch. 2 Delirium in Elderly Cardiac Patients 11
Ch. 3 Hearts Sing the Blues Too: Depression in Elderly Cardiac Patients 27
Ch. 4 Pharmacological Issues in the Very Old: The Treatment of Heart Disease 69
Ch. 5 Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Older Individuals 83
Ch. 6 Falls, Dizziness and Syncope in the Very Old 115
Ch. 7 Heart Failure in the Frail Elderly 139
Ch. 8 Heart Failure Management Programs 163
Ch. 9 Use of Chronic Anticoagulation in the Elderly: A Review of the Benefits and Risks 181
Ch. 10 Coronary Revascularization in Older Adults 201

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