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The 7th Edition of Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults thoroughly updates the material in the 6th edition by renowned experts in geriatric cardiology. New features include a short list of Key Points at the start of each chapter to help guide the reader, a new chapter on Cardio-oncology in Older Adults, a topic of increasing importance, and new sections on geroscience, lifestyle factors in cardiovascular disease prevention, and cardiac amyloidosis added to existing chapters. These new features will enhance the value and relevance of this book as the definitive text in this growing field.
Key Features:
· Provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of cardiovascular disorders in older patients.
· Useful for adult cardiologists, primary care providers, geriatricians, cardiac nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, cardiac rehabilitation teams, physical and occupational therapists, and other practitioners working with older patients.
List of contents
1. Cardiovascular changes with aging. 2. Morphologic features and pathology of the aging heart. 3. General principles on caring for older adults. 4. Systemic hypertension in older adults. 5. Disorders of lipid metabolism. 6. Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in older adults. 7. Epidemiology and prevention of coronary heart disease in older adults. 8. Diagnosis of coronary heart disease in older adults. 9. Angina pectoris in older adults. 10. Therapy of acute myocardial infarction. 11. Management of the older patient after myocardial infarction. 12. Coronary Artery Revascularization in the Older Adult Population 13. Exercise training and comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation in older cardiac patients. 14. Aortic valve disease in older persons. 15. MitraI regurgitation, mitral stenosis, and mitral annular calcification, and tricuspid disease in older persons. 16. Infective endocarditis in older adults. 17. Cardiomyopathies in older persons. 18. Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults.19 Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in older adults 20 Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Older Adults 21 Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in older persons. 22 Ventricular arrhythmias in older persons. 23 Bradyarrhythmias and cardiac pacemakers in the elderly. 24 Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults 25 Evaluation and management of syncope and related disorders in the elderly. 26 Venous thromboembolic disease in older adults 27 Management of peripheral arterial disease in older persons. 28 Perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and treatment of older adults undergoing noncardiac surgery 29 Ethical Decisions and End-of-life care in Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
About the author
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD is Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, USA. Dr. Aronow earned his MD degree from Harvard Medical School. He has edited 24 books and is an author in 1,895 papers, 225 book chapters in 118 books, 993 commentaries, 50 Letters to the Editor, and 1,227 abstracts. Dr. Aronow is a Fellow of the ACC, AHA, The ACP, the ACCP, the ASPC, the AGS, and the GSA. He has been a member of 185 editorial boards of medical journals. He has received 90 awards. Dr. Aronow has been a member of 4 national guidelines committees including being an author of the 2010 AMDA guidelines for heart failure, a co-chair and first author of the 2011 ACC/AHA expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly, an author of the 2015 AHA/ACC/ASH scientific statement on treatment of hypertension in patients with coronary artery disease, and an author of the 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with hypertension. He has been a committee member of numerous professional societies and a consultant to many government agencies. Dr. Aronow has mentored more than 1,200 physicians and medical students for papers listed on PubMed. He is on the lists of best scientists in medicine in the United States and in the world.
Jerome L. Fleg, MD, FACC, FAHA, FAPS, FHFSA is a Medical Officer in the Division of Cardiovascular Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned his MD from the University of Cincinnati and trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters,and reviews related to cardiovascular aging and disease. He serves on multiple journal editorial boards and is an associate editor for the
Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabiltation and Prevention.
Michael W. Rich, MD, FACC, AGSF is Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, and Director, Cardiac Rapid Evaluation Unit, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Rich earned his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. He has published over 300 journal articles and more than 90 books and book chapters. Dr. Rich is Associate Editor for the
American Journal of Medicine and for the
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
