[Update on geriatric cardiology].
This article contains a review of the main developments in the field of geriatric cardiology reported during 2007, and discusses recent consensus statements. The article focuses on work dealing with the specific characteristics of elderly patients with ischemic heart disease, arrhythmias, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension and valvular heart disease.
Martínez-Sellés
Manuel
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Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, España. mmselles@secardiologia.es
Datino
Tomás
T
Gómez Sánchez
Miguel A
MA
Bañuelos
Camino
C
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