Geriatric Cardiology OSCE: The Hidden Curriculum, Identifying End Stage Heart Disease & Clarifying Care Goals

End-stage heart disease in the elderly.

This document was produced by the Spanish Society of Cardiology Section on Geriatric Cardiology "End-stage heart disease in the elderly" working group. Its aim was to provide an expert overview that would increase understanding of the last days of life of elderly patients with heart disease and improve treatment and clinical decision-making. As elderly heart disease patients form a heterogeneou...

legal aspects of end of life and end stage disease

Abstract:  Aims: End of Life (EOL) care providers potentially face by variety of legal and professional dilemma. This study is designed to review and analyze these challenges and approaches to solve them. Materials & Methods:   In this narrative review study, legal aspects of end-of-life care in subjects such as medical assisted dying, decision-making capacity and withdrawal of life-sustaining...

The Total Artificial Heart in End-Stage Congenital Heart Disease

The development of durable ventricular assist devices (VADs) has improved mortality rates and quality of life in patients with end stage heart failure. While the use of VADs has increased dramatically in recent years, there is limited experience with VAD implantation in patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD), despite the fact that the number of patients with end stage CHD has grow...

Palliative care and end-stage liver disease.

Ischemic Heart Disease in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease.

BACKGROUND It was recently reported that the severity of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) has improved over the last two decades. However, the frequency of coronary artery events observed at the initiation of dialysis remains high. SUMMARY Recently, 5 different clinical types of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were introduced in the third ...