ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the elderly

Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are the leading causes of death in the elderly. The suspicion and diagnosis of ACS in this age group is more difficult, since typical angina is less frequent. The morbidity and mortality is greater in older age patients presenting ACS. Despite the higher prevalence and...

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Autores principales: Franken, Marcelo, Nussbacher, Amit, Liberman, Alberto, Wajngarten, Mauricio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Science Press 2012
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Symposium: Contributions from Department of Geriatric Cardiology of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916055
http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1263.2011.12297
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author Franken, Marcelo
Nussbacher, Amit
Liberman, Alberto
Wajngarten, Mauricio
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description Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are the leading causes of death in the elderly. The suspicion and diagnosis of ACS in this age group is more difficult, since typical angina is less frequent. The morbidity and mortality is greater in older age patients presenting ACS. Despite the higher prevalence and greater risk, elderly patients are underrepresented in major clinical trials from which evidence based recommendations are formulated. The authors describe, in this article, the challenges in the diagnosis and management of ST elevation myocardial infarction in the elderly, and discuss the available evidence.
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spelling pubmed-34188982012-08-22 ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the elderly Franken, Marcelo Nussbacher, Amit Liberman, Alberto Wajngarten, Mauricio J Geriatr Cardiol Symposium: Contributions from Department of Geriatric Cardiology of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are the leading causes of death in the elderly. The suspicion and diagnosis of ACS in this age group is more difficult, since typical angina is less frequent. The morbidity and mortality is greater in older age patients presenting ACS. Despite the higher prevalence and greater risk, elderly patients are underrepresented in major clinical trials from which evidence based recommendations are formulated. The authors describe, in this article, the challenges in the diagnosis and management of ST elevation myocardial infarction in the elderly, and discuss the available evidence. Science Press 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3418898/ /pubmed/22916055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1263.2011.12297 Text en Institute of Geriatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work under the same or similar license to this one. The work must be attributed back to the original author and commercial use is not permitted without specific permission.
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ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the elderly
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topic Symposium: Contributions from Department of Geriatric Cardiology of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology
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