Geriatric cardiology: We are not forgetting the elderly

Geriatric Cardiology was born as a need for the comprehensive, individualized, holistic, strategic evaluation of the elderly, in itself heterogeneous; in conjunction with their geriatric syndromes such as frailty, cognitive impairment, sarcopenia, physical dysfunction, falls; in addition to its mult...

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Autor: Nuñez Delgado, Rocio del Pilar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Perú
Institución:Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
Repositorio:Revista del Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:cmhnaaa_ojs_cmhnaaa.cmhnaaa.org.pe:article/2165
Acceso en línea:https://cmhnaaa.org.pe/ojs/index.php/rcmhnaaa/article/view/2165
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cardiología geriátrica
Adulto mayor
Enfermedad cardiovascular
Fibrilación auricular
Insuficiencia cardíaca
Desprescripción
Geriatric cardiology
Elderly
Cardiovascular disease
Atrial fibrillation
Heart failure
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Sumario:Geriatric Cardiology was born as a need for the comprehensive, individualized, holistic, strategic evaluation of the elderly, in itself heterogeneous; in conjunction with their geriatric syndromes such as frailty, cognitive impairment, sarcopenia, physical dysfunction, falls; in addition to its multimorbidity, its polypharmacy; with respect to cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure, atrial fibrillation, coronary disease, valvular disorders; ethereal population, which in many clinical trials have been excluded, and do not have a representativeness in the development of the current clinical guidelines for the correct diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of said cardiovascular diseases; Geriatric cardiology is therefore collaborative, it is multidisciplinary, it prioritizes quality of life more than longevity in the patient, based on geriatric principles with the implementation of scales to assess frailty, cognition, malnutrition, depression; that will help decision-making about the performance of cardiovascular procedures to operations or pharmacological treatments; that could worsen the morbidity and mortality of an older adult; help the process of deprescription, palliative care or care at the end of life.