Management of heart failure in elderly people

M Imazio, A Cotroneo, G Gaschino… - … journal of clinical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Elderly patients are prone to heart failure and frail because of the relationships among
age-related cardiovascular changes, drugs, concomitant heart diseases and comorbidities …

Incidence and prevalence of heart failure in elderly persons, 1994-2003

LH Curtis, DJ Whellan, BG Hammill… - Archives of internal …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
… of heart failure in the United States. We sought to estimate the annual incidence and prevalence
of heart failure and associated survival in elderly … that elderly patients with heart failure

Long-term survival in elderly patients hospitalized for heart failure: 14-year follow-up from a prospective randomized trial

BC Huynh, A Rovner, MW Rich - Archives of internal medicine, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
… intervention to prevent the readmission of elderly patients with congestive heart failure. …
intervention to prevent the readmission of elderly patients with congestive heart failure. …

Effect of a multidisciplinary intervention on medication compliance in elderly patients with congestive heart failure

MW Rich, DB Gray, V Beckham, C Wittenberg… - The American journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
… PURPOSE: The objectives of this investigation were to prospectively assess medication
compliance rates in elderly patients with congestive heart failure, to identify factors associated …

The clinical implications of cognitive impairment in elderly patients with chronic heart failure

I Ekman, B Fagerberg, I Skoog - Journal of Cardiovascular nursing, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… were screened and we believe that the included patients were representative of elderly
patients with chronic heart failure in NYHA class III-IV at admission who might be eligible for a …

Heart failure in frail elderly patients: diagnostic difficulties, co‐morbidities, polypharmacy and treatment dilemmas

CTC Lien, ND Gillespie, AD Struthers… - … of heart failure, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure is common in older patients and is a major cause of morbidity … heart failure
among the elderly also increases the risk of subsequent mortality, readmission for heart failure 3, …

Prevalence and prognostic impact of frailty and its components in non‐dependent elderly patients with heart failure

MT Vidán, V Blaya‐Novakova… - … of heart failure, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Heart failure diagnosis was considered according to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
HF Guidelines.15 Patients with severe dependence before index admission [inability to …

Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and prognosis of heart failure in the elderly

S Thomas, MW Rich - Heart Failure Clinics, 2007 - Elsevier
… cardiovascular diseases in the elderly [3]. Indeed, the median age for patients who have HF
Heart failure is already the most costly cardiovascular disorder in the United States, and it is …

Diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients with congestive heart failure

WF Wong, S Gold, O Fukuyama… - The American journal of …, 1989 - Elsevier
… We compared elderly patients with normal and abnormal … Atria1 fibrillation was more
common in the elderly patients with … In our study, 12 elderly patients had mild or segmental left …

Randomised controlled trial of cardiac rehabilitation in elderly patients with heart failure

J Austin, R Williams, L Ross, L Moseley… - … of heart failure, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… However, we believe that cardiac rehabilitation should become an important part of the care
of heart failure patients, particularly for the elderly. The programme described could easily …