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Pacing in Elderly Patients — Preoperative Evaluation and Pacemaker Selection

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The Pacemaker Clinic of the 90’s

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 175))

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Abstract

Much of today’s planning for elderly people is based on the theory that although lethal conditions might be postponed as medical technology improves, the incidence of degenerative diseases will be unaltered. This theory predicts that people in their nineties suffer from more diseases and have a greater chronic disability than do people in their seventies or eighties. If this theory were true, then the continued increase in the size of the oldest old population would portend a significant burden of poor health among the oldest members of our society.1–4

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  1. Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

    N. M. Van Hemel

  2. Heart Lung Institute, University Hospital Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    F. H. M. Wittkampf

  3. Department of Cardiology, University Clinic Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

    H. Ector

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van Mechelen, R., den Dulk, K., Wellens, H.J.J. (1995). Pacing in Elderly Patients — Preoperative Evaluation and Pacemaker Selection. In: Van Hemel, N.M., Wittkampf, F.H.M., Ector, H. (eds) The Pacemaker Clinic of the 90’s. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 175. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0347-3_4

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