- Provides an in depth review of the current practice and literature in treating elderly patients with coronary artery disease
- Only text available which describes in detail the distinctive features of elderly patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions
- Clarifies how existing outcome values like mortality can be applied to elderly patients or if other values like improvement of functional status or quality of life are more suitable parameters to measure interventional success
This book provides an in depth review of the current practice in treating elderly patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) as well as an update of the existing literature. It is intended to reflect the current science of elderly patients with stable angina, acute coronary syndromes and those patients who are forwarded for CAGB procedures. Evidence in the elderly patient group is often limited and/or non-existent therefore the main challenge, even for further research, will be to define the role of geriatric preconditions and its impact on outcome.
A second topic will be to clarify how, if ever, existing cardiological outcome values like mortality can be applied to elderly patients or if other values like improvement of functional status or quality of life are more suitable parameters to measure interventional success in elderly patients. The role of pharmacotherapy in advanced age has to be discussed. These topics will be embedded in epidemiological, pathophysiological and ethical aspects of interventional treatment of CAD in older age.
Table of Contents- Epidemiology of interventional procedures
- Pathophysiology of the aging heart and its impact on interventional procedures
- The role of geriatric preconditions (frailty and disability) in elderly patients
- Comorbid burden and its impact on outcome
- Coronary interventions in stable CAD
- Coronary interventions in ACS
- CABG vs. PCI in elderly patients
- Non-coronary interventions in the elderly
- Pharmacotherapy in elderly patients
- Ethical aspects of coronary interventions in elderly and very elderly patients
