Full Description
This book deals with heart failure in all its aspects, in- cluding chapters relating to receptor physiology and patho- physiological mechanisms, ventricular function and its assessment and the clinical aspects of heart failure in ischemic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heart disease and the timing of valve replacement. The pharmaco- therapy of heart failure deals with inotropic drugs, ACE in- hibitors, nitrates and calcium antagonists. Extending into the newer interventional techniques and surgical techniques the book includes chapters on balloon valvuloplasty, the po- tential use of the laser, the Jarvik artificial heart, car- diomyoplasty, left ventriculoplasty and heart and heart/lung transplantation.
Contents
Contents: Molecular and Biochemical Aspects.- Pathophysiological Aspects of Heart Failure.- Ventricular Function in Heart Failure.- Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques in the Assessment of Patients with Heart Failure.- Heart Failure in Acute Ischemic Syndromes and Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Rheumatic Heart Disease and Valvular Heart Disease.- Cardiomyopathies.- Pharmacotherapy of Heart Failure.- Cardiac Arrhythmias in Heart Failure.- Exercise Physiology and Exercise Therapy in Heart Failure.- Neurohumoral Mechanisms.- Newer Interventional Techniques.- Newer Surgical Techniques in the Patient with Heart Failure.- Cardiac Assist Devices, Heart Transplantation.
