Chronic Heart Failure (Medical Pocketbooks)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: December 1993
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781853171697
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine
First sentence: Pathophysiologically, heart failure is an inability of the heart to deliver blood (and therefore oxygen) at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues despite normal cardiac filling pressures.