Manual of Heart Failure

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-93-5090-630-9
Verlag: JP Medical

Buch, Englisch, 365 Seiten, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

This manual is a comprehensive guide to heart failure for clinicians. Beginning with an introduction to its epidemiology and diagnosis, the following sections provide in depth discussion on the most recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of different aspects of heart failure. The final chapters cover cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and therapies and palliative care for end stage heart failure.

Written by internationally recognised specialists from the University of Iowa, this practical guide includes more than 200 images and illustrations.

Key points

- Comprehensive guide to heart failure for practising cardiologists

- Includes chapter on cardiopulmonary exercise testing

- Internationally recognised author team

- More than 200 images and illustrations

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Kanu

Anderson, Mark

Heistad, Donald

Kerber, Richard E

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Kardiologie, Angiologie, Phlebologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Heart Failure: Epidemiology

- Heart Failure: Diagnosis

- Systolic Heart Failure (Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction)

- Diastolic Heart Failure (Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction)

- Anemia in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (Prevalence, Mechanism, Significance and Treatment)

- Hyponatremia and Congestive Heart Failure

- Cardiorenal Syndrome: The Interplay between Cardiac and Renal Function in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

- Acute Heart Failure Syndromes

- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Training in Heart Failure

- Hibernating Myocardium

- Advanced Cardiac Therapies for End Stage Heart Failure: Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support

- Palliative Medicine and End of Life Care in Heart Failure

Über Autor(innen)

Kanu Chatterjee MBBS FRCP (London & Edin) FCCP FACC MACP

Professor
 
Mark Anderson MD PhD

Professor of Medicine & Physiology, Head, Dept of Internal Medicine; Director of Cardiovascular Research Centre
 
Donald Heistad MD

Zahn Professor of Cardiology (Internal Medicine & Pharmacology)
 
Richard E Kerber MD

Professor 
 
All at The Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA