7th Edition

Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults Seventh Edition

Edited By Wilbert S. Aronow, Jerome L. Fleg, Michael W. Rich Copyright 2026
602 Pages 36 Color & 69 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

602 Pages 36 Color & 69 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The Seventh Edition of Tresch and Aronow's Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults thoroughly updates the material in the sixth edition by renowned experts in geriatric cardiology. New features include a short list of Key Points at the start of each chapter to help guide the reader, a new chapter on Cardio-oncology in Older Adults, a topic of increasing importance, and new sections on... Read more

1 Cardiovascular changes with aging            

Jerome L. Fleg

 

2 Morphologic features and pathology of the aging heart   

Gregory A. Fishbein

Atsuko Seki

Michael C. Fishbein

 

3 General principles on caring for older adults         

Christine Y. Nguyen

Dae Hyun Kim

 

4 Systemic hypertension in Older Persons

Wilbert S. Aronow

William H. Frishman

 

5   Disorders of lipid metabolism "

Khalifa Bshesh

Seth S. Martin"

 

6   Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in older adults

 Thomas Horton and Samuel C. Durso

 

7 Epidemiology and prevention of coronary heart disease in older adults  

Nathan D. Wong

Kevin S. Tang"

 

8  Diagnosis of coronary heart disease in older adults

Jerome L. Fleg and Wilbert S. Aronow

 

9  Angina Pectoris in Older Persons       

Wilbert S. Aronow

William H. Frishman

 

10  Therapy for acute myocardial infarction       

Joshua M. Stolker

Michael W. Rich"

 

11 Management of the older patient after myocardial infarction        

Haris Patail, Wilbert S. Aronow, Howard A. Cooper

 

12 Coronary Artery Revascularization in the Older Adult Population    

Patrick Berchie, Jennifer S. Lawton, Michael G. Nanna,

Abdulla A. Damluji

 

13 Exercise training and comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation in older cardiac patients         Sherrie Khadanga, Daniel Forman

 

14 Aortic valve disease in older persons

Wilbert S. Aronow, Aaqib H. Malik

 

15 Mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis,  mitral annular calcification, and tricuspid disease  in older persons           

Wilbert S. Aronow, Yasser Radwan, Hasan Ahmad

 

16  Infective endocarditis in older adults

Hsinhui Hua, Lona Mody

 

17 Cardiomyopathies in Older Persons  

Nathaniel Abittan

Srihari S. Naidu

Wilbert S. Aronow

 

18 Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults  

Rylie Pietrowicz, Dina Ioffe, Efrat Dotan and Eman Hamad

 

19  Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in older adults 

Ali Ahmed

Jerome L. Fleg

 

20 Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Older Adults        

Bharathi Upadhya, Akshay Pendyal, Parag Goyal

 

21 Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in older persons 

Sade Solola Nussbaum

Subrat K. Das

Sei Iwai

Wilbert S. Aronow

 Jason T. Jacobson

 

22  Ventricular arrhythmias in older persons      

Jason T. Jacobson, Sei Iwai, and Wilbert S. Aronow & Mahmoud Samy Ahmed

 

23  Bradyarrhythmias and cardiac pacemakers in the elderly    

Michael Liu

Win-Kuang Shen

 

24  Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults       

Emma M. Loebel and Laura K. Stein

25  Evaluation and management of syncope and related disorders in the elderly       

Andrea Ungar

Martina Rafanelli

Giulia Matteucci

 

26  Venous thromboembolic disease in older adults

Wilbert S. Aronow

 

27  Management of peripheral arterial disease in older persons           

Wilbert S. Aronow

 

28 Perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and treatment of older adults undergoing noncardiac surgery           

Jeanna D. Blitz

 

29  Ethical Decisions and End-of-life care in Older Patients with Cardiovascular Disease          Esther S. Pak

Biography

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD is Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology  Research at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, USA. Dr. Aronow earned his MD degree from Harvard Medical School. He has edited 24 books and is an author in 1,895 papers, 225 book chapters in 118 books, 993 commentaries, 50 Letters to the Editor, and 1,227 abstracts. Dr. Aronow is a Fellow of the ACC, AHA, The ACP, the ACCP, the ASPC, the AGS, and the GSA. He has been a member of 185 editorial boards of medical journals. He has received 90 awards.  Dr. Aronow has been a member of 4 national guidelines committees including being an author of the 2010 AMDA guidelines for heart failure, a co-chair and first author of the 2011 ACC/AHA expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly, an author of the 2015 AHA/ACC/ASH scientific statement on treatment of hypertension in patients with coronary artery disease, and an author of the 2017 ACC/AHA  guidelines for the management of patients with hypertension. He has been a committee member of numerous professional societies and a consultant to many government agencies.  Dr. Aronow has mentored more than 1,200 physicians and medical students for papers listed on PubMed. He is on the lists of best scientists in medicine  in the United States and in the world.

Jerome L. Fleg, MD, FACC, FAHA, FAPS, FHFSA is a Medical Officer in the Division of Cardiovascular Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He earned his MD from the University of Cincinnati and trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters,and reviews related to cardiovascular aging and disease. He serves on multiple journal editorial boards and is an associate editor for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabiltation and Prevention.

Michael W. Rich, MD, FACC, AGSF is Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, and Director, Cardiac Rapid Evaluation Unit, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Rich earned his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. He has published over 300 journal articles and more than 90 books and book chapters. Dr. Rich is Associate Editor for the American Journal of Medicine and for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.