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Pathophysiology of the Aging Heart and Its Impact on Interventions

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Interventional Cardiology in the Elderly

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This chapter will briefly explain physiological changes in an elderly cardiovascular system in order to understand age-dependant alterations in coronary pathology. Physiological aging is a complex process resulting in severe changes to cardiovascular structures. These physiological changes in cardiovascular physiology have to be differentiated from the effects of pathology, such as coronary artery disease, that frequently results with increasing age. Further effects are alterations to the heart muscle itself, the decreasing elasticity of the major arteries, age related changes in neural cardiovascular control and changes in other physiological systems like renal function or hemostasis aswell as problems caused by multimedication.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine I, Cardiology and Pneumology, Klinikum Fuerth, Fuerth, Germany

    Harald Rittger MD

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Rittger, H. (2015). Pathophysiology of the Aging Heart and Its Impact on Interventions. In: Rittger, H. (eds) Interventional Cardiology in the Elderly. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21142-8_2

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