Fig. 2.1 Gender- and age-specific rates of all events and of incident events for stroke, myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death combined and acute peripheral vascular events (Modified from Rothwell…
Fig. 8.1 Mini-Cog test (Borson et al. [53]): administration and scoring Ask the patient to repeat three semantically unrelated words. Ask the patient to draw a clock. Draw a circle….
Fig. 7.1 Incidence rates of syncope according to age and sex (Reproduced with permission from Soteriades ES et al. [3]) In an emergency department (ED) study [4], the mean age…
Fig. 9.1 Prevalence of degenerative calcific aortic stenosis [4]. Aortic stenosis was defined based on combined criteria of velocity ratio ≤0.35 and aortic valve area ≤1.2 cm2 9.2 Clinical Manifestations…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Andrea Ungar and Niccolò Marchionni (eds.)Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1_4 4. Frailty and Heart Disease Antonio Cherubini1 , Fabiana Mirella Trotta1 and Alessandra Marengoni2 (1) Geriatria ed Accettazione Geriatrica…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Andrea Ungar and Niccolò Marchionni (eds.)Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1_3 3. Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Aging Francesca Tarantini1 , Claudia Di Serio1 and Luigi Ferrucci2 (1) Division of Geriatric…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Andrea Ungar and Niccolò Marchionni (eds.)Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1_1 1. Introduction: The Specificity of Geriatric Cardiology Niccolò Marchionni1 and Alessandro Boccanelli2, 3 (1) Department of…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Andrea Ungar and Niccolò Marchionni (eds.)Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1_6 6. Polypharmacy Nicola Ferrara1, 2 , Graziamaria Corbi3, Klara Komici1 and Giuseppe Rengo1, 2 (1) Department of Translational Medical…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Andrea Ungar and Niccolò Marchionni (eds.)Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1_5 5. Evidence-Based Versus Evidence-Biased Medicine in Geriatric Cardiology: From Trials to Real World Matteo Monami1 …
Fig. 2.1 Imported image from a 3D echocardiography dataset for 3D printing performed for evaluation of an atrial septal defect Fig. 2.2 The atrial septum was segmented using Materialise Mimics® Innovation Suite…
