Basics of Heart Failure
Subtitle: A Problem Solving Approach (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780792377863
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Medical; USA; diagnosis; Cardiology; Medical / Cardiology; Heart Failure, Congestive; Heart failure; physiopathology; therapy
First sentence: A definition of heart failure depends on your perspective: as a clinician, a state of circulatory congestion; as an epidemiologist, an accelerating public health problem; as a physiologist, a decompensation of the circulation secondary to primary changes in the heart and subsequent changes in the vasculature; as a molecular biologist, a maladaptive response to biologic factors affecting the cardiac and vascular cell growth cycle; as a patient, a long-term disabling condition with uncertain survival.