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Preface / Wilbert S. Aronow -- Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and prognosis of the heart failure in the elderly / Sabu Thomas and Micheal W. Rich -- Clinical manifestations, diagnostic assessment, and etiology of heart failure in older adults / Ali Ahmed -- Role of echocardiography in the diagnostic assessment and etiology of heart failure in the elderly: opacify, quantify, and rectify / Vincent L. Sorrell and Navin C. Nanda -- Treatment of heart failure with abnormal left ventricular systolic function in the elderly / Wilbert S. Aronow -- Diastolic heart failure in the elderly / Dalane W. Kitzman and Kurt R. Daniel -- Use of diuretics in the treatment of heart failure in the elderly / Domenic A. Sica, Todd W.B. Gehr, and William H. Frishman -- Heart-failure: complicating acute myocardial infarction / Wilbert S. Aronow -- Inotropic drugs and neurohormonal antagonists in the treatment of HF in the elderly / Christopher M. O'Connor and Pradeep Arumugham -- Interventional therapies for heart failure in the elderly / Srihari S. Naidu, S. Chiu Wong, and Richard M. Steingart -- Surgical treatment of heart failure in the elderly / Ramin Malekan and Steven L. Lansman -- Cardiac resynchronization therapy for treatment of heart failure in the elderly / Jordana Kron and Jamie B. Conti -- Treatment of arrhythmias and use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators to improve survival in elderly patients with cardiac disease / Ilan Goldenberg and Arthur J. Moss -- Exercise therapy for elderly heart failure patients / Jerome L. Fleg -- End-of-life care in the treatment of heart failure in the elderly / John Arthur McClung --Index. |
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