After successfully treating congestion, guidelines recommend down-titration of loop diuretics in chronic HF when patients have no signs of volume overload [44]. It is estimated that diuretic doses for (acute) recompensation are two- to threefold the dose required as maintenance therapy [45]. Thu...
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This form of treatment is called rate control therapy (discussed in this article). Limitations of medications for controlling the heart rate: In people with diseased AV nodes, ventricular contractions may be slower than in those who have normal AV nodes. Moreover, some elderly individuals with ...
"The favourable effect of [physical activity] may be simply explained by its capability of slowing down the atherosclerosis process through a better control of blood pressure, blood glucose level, and lipid profile." But the findings show: "that 'movement is medicine' also in late life. Even ...
2 The coronary arteries are at risk for narrowing as cholesterol deposits, called plaques, build up inside the artery. If the arteries narrow enough, blood supply to the heart muscle may be compromised (slowed down), and this ...
In the elderly, less healthy population, presumably asymptomatic sinus bradycardia can be a sign of preexisting sick sinus syndrome (Gann et al., 1979) myocardial injury, or a side effect (or intended therapeutic effect) of medications. When occurring in the setting of cardiac ischemia, sinus ...
Diastolic heart failure represents <15% of chronic heart failure in patients younger than 50 yr, and the proportion raises to 33% in 50–70 yr olds and to 70% in those aged >70 yr.120 This prevalence in elderly subjects is related to alterations in the cardiovascular system frequently ...
in the elderly population [3]. Heart aging refers to age-related deterioration of cardiac function and manifests as the loss of myocardial contractile capacity, including increased left ventricular (LV) wall thickness and chamber size and prolonged diastole [4,5], which results in the increased ...
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article ORIGINAL RESEARCH Quantitative and Qualitative Research on Management Strategies for Dyspnoea in Elderly Patients with Coronary Heart Disease Complicated with Chronic Heart Failure Ya-...