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The Use of the Antiarrhythmic Agents in the Elderly

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Aging and Drug Therapy

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Similar disturbances of cardiac rhythm occur in all ages, even if more frequently in the elderly .1, 2, 3 As a consequence, the diagnostic problems and the therapeutic principles concerning the etiology, the recognition, the quantification and the choice of treatment of cardiac arrhythmias are generally identical for young and old patients.

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Carbonin, P.U. et al. (1984). The Use of the Antiarrhythmic Agents in the Elderly. In: Barbagallo-Sangiorgi, G., Exton-Smith, A.N. (eds) Aging and Drug Therapy. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2791-2_25

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