Degenerative, non-atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the elderly: a clinico-pathological survey

Aging : Clinical and Experimental Research
G Thiene, M Valente

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease, the major cause of death in the elderly, is mostly ascribable to complications of coronary atherosclerosis: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and sudden death. However, other degenerative diseases involving several cardiac structures exist, and should be distinguished from age-related cardiac changes. Extensive dystrophic calcification determines aortic stenosis, and may affect either a normally tricuspid or a congenitally bicuspid valve. Surgical valve replacement is now a low risk option, even in elderly persons, whereas the efficacy of balloon valvuloplasty is questionable. Aortic incompetence in adults and aged persons is mostly the consequence of aortic tunica media atrophy with anular ectasia, in the setting of nearly normal aortic leaflets. Mitral valve prolapse is the main cause of mitral incompetence; spontaneous cordal rupture is a late complication in the natural history of this disease, thus warranting prompt surgical valve repair or replacement. The entire spectrum of cardiomyopathies is observed in the elderly: dilated, hypertrophic, restrictive, arrhythmogenic. Cardiac amyloidosis is by far the most frequent secondary form and leads to congestive heart failure by impairing ventricula...Continue Reading

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