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UNINA9910841893603321 |
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Titolo |
A practical guide to heart failure in older people [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Christopher Ward and Miles Witham |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-12340-8 |
9786612123405 |
0-470-74294-1 |
0-470-74293-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WardChristopher <1939-> |
WithamMiles |
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Disciplina |
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618.97/129 |
618.97129 |
618.976129 |
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Soggetti |
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Heart failure |
Geriatric cardiology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Epidemiology / Christopher Ward -- Heart failure and the aging heart / Helen Oxenham -- Aetiology / Christopher Ward -- Diagnosis / Christopher Ward -- Pharmacological treatment / Miles D. Witham -- Non-pharmacological management / Sinéad P. McKee and Miles D. Witham -- Comorbidity / Andrew Elder -- Treatment and management in primary care / Alan Begg -- The role of the specialist nurse / Sinéad P. McKee -- The role of the heart failure specialist / Maheshwar Pauriah, Aaron K.F. Wong and Chim C. Lang -- Hospitalization / Andrew Hannah -- Models of care and disease management programmes / Martin Wilson and Stephen J. Leslie -- Palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced and terminal heart failure / Christopher Ward ... [et al.]. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and heart failure is |
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