title: The old-age heart: aging changes of the normal elderly heart and cardiovascular disease in 12 necropsy patients aged 90 to 101 years.
abstract: In this article, morphologic changes affecting the myocardium, chambers, valves, epicardial coronary arteries, and aorta in the elderly but otherwise normal heart are discussed and are compared with and differentiated from morphologic changes causing clinical cardiac dysfunction, death, or both.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000682:Amyloid / Q000378:metabolism; D001011:Aorta / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D009929:Organ Size
chemical_list: D000682:Amyloid