Treatment of elderly patients is not always away. It is important to realise that age is not always the true indication of the ageing process. Many people look aged even at fifty-five when they usually retire from services, while others look healthy and relatively younger even at sixty or seventy years. The study of the ageing process is known as [...]
Heart Disease Mitral valve disease is the commonest form of chronic rheumatic valve disease, the valve being affected m about 85 per cent of cases. The affected valve may be either stenosed offering obstruction to the flow of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle or the valve may be incompetent resulting in regurgitation of blood from the [...]
Angina pectoris is a clinical manifestation of inadequate coronary blood supply which in the past was given many names, e.g. angina of effort, decubitus angina, nocturnal angina, intractable angina, Prinzmetal angina etc. but it is now proposed that if the angina is due to coronary vasospasm it should be called primary but if it is due to an established lesion [...]