Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He has edited 16 books; has authored or coauthored 1,657 papers or book chapters, 518 commentaries, 47 Letters to the Editor, and 1,102 abstracts; and has presented or copresented 1,473 talks at meetings. Dr. Aronow is a Fellow of the ACC, the AHA, the ACP, ACCP, the ASPC, the AGS (Founding Fellow of Western Section), and the GSA. He also received a Distinguished Fellowship Award from the International Academy of Cardiology. He has been a member of 172 editorial boards of medical journals. He has received numerous teaching and research awards. He has been a member of four national guidelines committees, including being a coauthor of the 2010 American Medical Director Association guidelines for heart failure, a co-chair of the 2011 ACC/AHA expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly, a coauthor of the 2015 AHA/ACC/ASH scientific statement on treatment of hypertension in patients with coronary artery disease, and a coauthor of the 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA guideline for the prevention, detection, evaluation, and management of high blood pressure in adults. Jerome L. Fleg, MD, FACC, FAHA is a Medical Officer, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland and Guest Researcher, Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fleg received his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has authored over 350 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials related to cardiovascular aging and disease. He serves on multiple journal editorial boards and is an associate editor for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention and Aging: Clinical and Experimental Research. Michael W. Rich, MD, FACC, FAHA, AGSF is Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, and Director, Cardiac Rapid Evaluation Unit, Barnes・Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Rich received his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. He has published over 300 journal articles and more than 70 books and book chapters. Dr. Rich is Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure, Associate Editor for The American Journal of Medicine, and Consulting Editor for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

• Foreword Preface Editors Contributors 1. Cardiovascular changes with aging Jerome L. Fleg2. Morphologic features and pathology of the elderly heart Atsuko Seki, Gregory A. Fishbein, and Michael C. Fishbein3. General principles on caring for older adults Dae Hyun Kim and Sandra M. Shi4. Cardiovascular drug therapy in the elderly William H. Frishman, Wilbert S. Aronow, and Angela Cheng-Lai5. Systemic hypertension in the elderly Wilbert S. Aronow and William H. Frishman6. Disorders of lipid metabolism Mays T. Ali and Seth S. Martin7. Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in the elderly Samuel C. Durso8. Epidemiology and prevention of coronary heart disease in older adults Nathan D. Wong, David Tehrani, and Stanley S. Franklin9. Diagnosis of coronary heart disease in the elderly Wilbert S. Aronow and Jerome L. Fleg10. Angina pectoris in the elderly Wilbert S. Aronow and William H. Frishman11. Therapy of acute myocardial infarction Joshua M. Stolker and Michael W. Rich12. Management of the older patient after myocardial infarction Howard A. Cooper, Julio A. Panza, and Wilbert S. Aronow13. Surgical management of coronary artery disease Melissa M. Anastacio, Alejandro Suarez Pierre, and Jennifer S. Lawton14. Percutaneous coronary intervention in the elderly Kashish Goel and David R. Holmes15. Exercise training and comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation in older cardiac patients Daniel E. Forman16. Aortic valve disease in the elderly Madhur A. Roberts, Ryan K. Kaple, and Wilbert S. Aronow17. Mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, and mitral annular calcification in the elderly Wilbert S. Aronow18. Infective endocarditis in older adults Sairia Dass and Lona Mody19. Cardiomyopathies in the elderly John Arthur McClung, Srihari S. Naidu, and Wilbert S. Aronow20. Thyroid heart disease in the elderly Myron Miller and Steven R. Gambert21. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in older adults Ali Ahmed and Jerome L. Fleg22. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in older adults Bharathi Upadhya and Dalane W. Kitzman23. Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in the elderly Jason T. Jacobson, Sei Iwai, Ali Ahmed, and Wilbert S. Aronow24. Ventricular arrhythmias in the elderly Jason T. Jacobson, Sei Iwai, and Wilbert S. Aronow25. Bradyarrhythmias and cardiac pacemakers in the elderly Naktal Hamoud, Fernando Tondato, and Win-Kuang Shen26. Cerebrovascular disease in the elderly patient Laura Stein and Jesse Weinberger27. Evaluation and management of syncope and related disorders in the elderly Andrea Ungar, Martina Rafanelli, and Michele Brignole28. Pericardial disease in the elderly Massimo Imazio29. Venous thromboembolic disease in older adults Laurie G. Jacobs, Justin B. Kaplan, and Ruchi Jain30. Management of peripheral arterial disease in the elderly Wilbert S. Aronow31. Perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and treatment of elderly patients undergoing noncardiac surgery Dipika Gopal, Monika Sanghavi, and Lee A. Fleisher32. Ethical decisions and end-of-life care in older patients with cardiovascular disease Esther S. Pak, James N. Kirkpatrick, Craig Tanner, and Sarah J. GoodlinIndex

"The authors have done a superb job of compiling data from the latest research articles and guidelines on management of each disease process. This book is easy to understand and has supporting illustrations that facilitate conceptualization for all healthcare professionals."Azfar B Sheikh, MD (Ochsner Clinic Foundation