Heart failure
Subtitle: a practical approach to treatment
By: [edited by] William T. Abraham, Henry Krum.
Contributors: Abraham, William T.; Krum, Henry.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division; McGraw-Hill Medical
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780071443159
Subjects: Heart failure; Heart failure -- Treatment; Heart Failure, Congestive; Heart Failure, Congestive -- therapy
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is heart failure / John J.V. McMurray; title: The epidemic of heart failure / Mikhail Kosiborod and Harlan M. Krumholz; title: What causes heart failure / Alexander Lyon and Philip A. Poole-Wilson; title: Pathophysiology of heart failure / Gary S. Francis and W.H. Wilson Tang; title: How to judge disease severity, clinical status and prognosis / Faiez Zannad; title: Therapeutic approach to heart failure: an overview / Daniel L. Dries and Mariell Jessup; title: How to evaluate patients with symptoms suggestive of heart failure / Sharon Hunt; title: Non-pharmacological treatment of heart failure / Andrew J.S. Coats; title: How to use diuretics in heart failure patients / Robert W. Schrier; title: How to use neurohormonal antagonists in heart failure / Alexander E. Fraley and Barry H. Greenberg; title: Is there still a role for digitalis in heart failure? / Joseph S. Rossi and Mihai Gheorghiade; title: The heart failure hospitalization / Lynne Warner Stevenson; title: Ancillary pharmacological therapies for heart failure / Henry Krum; title: Devices for the treatment of heart failure / William T. Abraham; title: Surgical approaches to heart failure / Robert E. Michler, Michael Zembala, and Daniel J. Goldstein; title: When to refer patients for heart transplantation / Maryjane Farr and Donna Mancini; title: Co-morbidities & heart failure / Henry Krum and Richard E. Gilbert; title: Disease management overview / Robin J. Trupp; title: How to develop a heart failure management pathway / Jennifer Farroni, David Feldman, and Sara Paul; title: Integrating inpatient and outpatient heart failure management / Maryjane B. Giacalone and Marc J. Semigran; title: What is a heart failure clinic? / Gregg C. Fonarow; title: Putting it all together: optimizing the management of heart failure patients / Willem J. Remme; title: Where do we go from here? / William T. Abraham.