老年人的心律失常较为常见,而且有随年龄的增长而增加之趋势,因其绝大多数是器质性的,常与心功不全或循环系统疾病有重要关系,因此在临床上是很重要的。近年来随着诊断技术的不断提高在该领域内也有很多新的进展。一、老年人心律失常的病因心律失常的病因可分为心脏性及心外性两种。 (一)心脏性的主要有冠心病,高血压性心脏病,退行性病变,风湿性心脏病,先天性心脏病,心功不全等。老年人常有隐匿型或硬化型的冠心病,往往由于 Arrhythmias in the elderly are more common and have an increasing tendency with age. Because most of them are organic, they are often associated with heart failure or circulatory diseases and are clinically important of. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of diagnostic techniques in the field there are many new advances. First, the cause of arrhythmia in the elderly The cause of arrhythmia can be divided into two kinds of cardiac and extracardiac. (A) of the main cardiac heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, degenerative diseases, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, heart failure and so on. Older people often occult or sclerosis type of coronary heart disease, often due to