Heart failure is a serious condition caused by the heart failing to pump enough blood around the body at the right pressure. It usually occurs because the heart muscle has become too weak or stiff to work properly, most commonly caused by heart attack, high blood pressure or cardiomyopathy (heart disease). This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of heart failure. Divided into 81 sections, the book begins with an overview of heart failure, its epidemiology, types, assessment and diagnosis, and imaging. Each of the following chapters provides in depth detail on a different type or cause of heart failure, concluding with discussion on intravenous drug administration. With more than 100 contributors, the text is further enhanced by charts and tables, making it an excellent quick reference guide for both practising cardiologists and trainees. Key points Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of heart failure Covers numerous different types and causes More than 100 expert contributors Highly illustrated with charts and tables

Practical simple reference for understanding current management of heart failure Provides pathophysiology and pharmacology to explain the key points Focuses mostly on patient management issues

Comprehensive guide to heart failure for clinicians. Includes chapter in cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Internationally recognised US author team.

Thoroughly revised and updated for its Fifth Edition, this manual is a practical quick-reference guide to the immediate and long-term evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book describes current strategies for diagnosis and medical and surgical management of all cardiovascular disorders. Numerous tables provide rapid access to essential information. This edition is a major revision with a distinguished new co-author, Gordon A. Ewy, MD. Sections on coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, and lipids have been completely reworked and chapters on therapy and cardiopulmonary resuscitation have been rewritten. This edition also includes more tables and drawings.

This Spiral(R) Manual is a current, convenient, and practical guide to the management of more than 125 cardiac problems encountered in daily practice. Each concise chapter includes definition, etiology, epidemiology, clinical findings, investigations, treatment, and a brief discussion of pathophysiology. This Sixth Edition is thoroughly updated and includes extensively revised chapters on catheter ablation of tachyarrhythmias, myocardial infarction, new devices for coronary revascularization, and anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents.

Inside the Fourth Edition of the Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine, you’ll find practical and effective approaches to common clinical syndromes—including clear guidance on administration of commonly prescribed medications and descriptions of proven therapeutic procedures. This best selling manuals’s concise outline format and colorful design make essential facts easy to find. An ideal reference for the resident, fellow, practicing cardiologist, or nurse-practitioner treating patients with cardiovascular disease.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this pocket-sized manual is an adaptation of Topol's Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Third Edition. The Third Edition of this best-selling manual follows the same structure as previous editions, using an outline format with key words and phrases highlighted in bold. The concise text provides easy access to the information needed to treat patients with cardiovascular disease and is appropriate for residents, fellows, practicing cardiologists, and nurse-practitioners. This latest revision presents updated clinical information and has eight new chapters, including obesity and metabolic syndrome, women and heart disease, and heart failure treatment.

Heart failure is an important and ever expanding sub-speciality of cardiology. Many health care professional bodies are now developing specialist expertise in heart failure. This is true for cardiologists in training, consultant cardiologists, care of the elderly and general physicians, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists and specialist nurses. With advances in medical therapy, the prognosis of the condition has improved dramatically. Whereas once heart failure was a pre-terminal diagnosis, now for many it is treatable. However, some patients remain symptomatic and at high risk of death despite maximal medical therapy. These patients can benefit from a range of novel device therapies. For those who remain symptomatic despite optimal treatment cardiac transplantation remains an option. This updated book comprehensively covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure. It gives simple, clear advice on the diagnosis, investigation and treatment options available highlighting the current evidence-base. The chapters provide concise and objective information to guide all health care professionals involved in the modern day multi-disciplinary management of the syndrome. The book is set out logically to mirror the patient journey in heart failure. An updated edition of the first practical manual of heart failure management.

A new volume in the popular Washington Manual® handbook series, The Washington Manual® Heart Failure and Transplantationprovides concise, high-yield content that reflects today’s fast-changing advances in the field. Edited by Drs. Jonathan D. Moreno and Benjamin J. Kopecky, and written by teams from Washington University, this practical handbook focuses on the essential information you need to know, using a brief, bulleted format, along with numerous figures, tables, algorithms, and images throughout. In one convenient, portable resource, you’ll find complete coverage of heart failure pathophysiology and clinical management spanning both inpatient and outpatient treatment settings—all at your fingertips for quick review and reference.

The definitive manual for treating the full range of heart problems. Summarizing the clinical portions of Hurst's THE HEART, 11/e, this point-of-care tool presents key points of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment in a succinct, outline format. This new edition has been reorganized for a new consistent format and includes ACC/AHA treatment guidelines integrated throughout as well as quick-reference tables and algorithms.