Atrial Fibrillation in Geriatric Patients: Current Status and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2024 | Viewed by 75
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing number of elderly patients suffering from atrial fibrillation will have a major impact on our healthcare system in the following decades. Due to the fact that many patients with atrial fibrillation suffer from other heart disease and non-cardiac comorbidities resulting in increased frailty, especially in the elderly, the management of these patients is often complex. On the one hand, the risk of disease-related complications is increased by age; on the other hand, the risk of medication-related adverse effects is substantially enhanced. Early disease recognition, adequate and timely risk modification, and treatment optimisation will help to keep the disease burden under control. In order to avoid unnecessary complications and hospital submissions, a main focus should be the timely identification of vulnerable older patients in the community and/or in an outpatient setting. Both clinical parameters and risk scores, as well as biomarkers, may play an increasing role in risk prediction in daily clinical practice; however, there are currently still important gaps in evidence and practical knowledge regarding the optimal treatment strategy of geriatric patients with atrial fibrillation. Therefore, I encourage you contribute to our Special Issue, ‘Atrial Fibrillation in Geriatric Patients: Current Status and Future Perspectives’, by submitting your research or review papers related to this topic.
Dr. Martin E.W. Hemels
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- atrial fibrillation in the elderly
- bleeding risk
- stroke prevention
- frailty
- polypharmacy
- chronic management of atrial fibrillation
