Aging, Heart Disease, and Its Management : Facts and Controversies Paperback / softback
Edited by Niloo M. Edwards
Part of the Contemporary Cardiology series
Paperback / softback
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Reviews the best therapies and surgical techniques available to provide quality care for the elderly cardiac patient and of those areas that require further research.
The authors detail preventive therapies and the cardiovascular syndromes that disproportionately afflict the older individual, including arrhythmias (particularly atrial fibrillation), syncope, heart failure (particularly diastolic heart failure), and ischemic heart disease.
They also delineate the surgical management of the heart patient with discussions of postoperative management and its complications and of specific surgical procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, valve surgery, pacemaker and defibibrillators, and surgical management of heart failure.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:390 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 57 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 390 p. 59 illus., 2 illus
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:23/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781468497663
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:390 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 57 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 390 p. 59 illus., 2 illus
- Publisher:Humana Press Inc.
- Publication Date:23/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781468497663
