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[Treatment of cardiac insufficiency in the elderly]
1Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Erasme, Bruxelles.
Revue Medicale De Bruxelles
|May 1, 1994
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Elderly individuals with heart failure often experience reduced drug tolerance due to aging. Successful treatment for diastolic heart failure typically involves reducing preload.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Geriatrics
- Pharmacology
Abstract:
The structural changes of the elderly's heart predispose to cardiac insufficiency. Treatment has to take into account the pharmacological aspects of aging which reduce drug tolerance. Success will be usually obtained after reducing preload in this type of diastolic heart failure.