Clinical Challenges in Heart Failure
By: edited by Mandeep R. Mehra
Publisher: Clinical Pub Serv
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781846920448
Subjects: Heart failure; Treatment; Heart Failure; Physiopathology; Therapy
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Digoxin in heart failure: an ancient potion? / Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr.; title: 2. Cell therapy for heart failure: ready for prime time? / Joshua M. Hare; title: 3. Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure: light at the end of the tunnel? / Myung H. Park; title: 4. Will pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics transform heart failure therapy? / Dennis M. McNamara; title: 5. Anticoagulation in heart failure: are we missing an important target? / Mihai Gheorghiade; title: 6. Has the death knell been sounded for oral and intravenous vasodilators in decompensated heart failure? / John R. Teerlink; title: 7. Fluid overload and cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure: two sides of the same coin? / John B. O'Connell; title: 8. Should we use endomyocardial biopsy more often in heart failure diagnosis? / Late Kenneth Lee Baughman; title: 9. Prescribing exercise training for patients with heart failure / Stuart D. Russell; title: 10. How does metabolic syndrome lead to heart failure? / Hector O. Ventura; title: Note continued: 11. Obesity and heart failure: too much of a bad thing is good? / Hector O. Ventura; title: 12. The role for revascularization in asymptomatic patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction / Joseph G. Rogers; title: 13. Blood based biomarkers in heart failure: where are we now? / Keyur B. Shah; title: 14. Atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure: the cart or the horse? / Timm M. Dickfeld; title: 15. Nutraceuticals in heart failure: the good (fish oil), the bad (licorice) and ugly (ginseng)? / Mandeep R. Mehra; title: 16. Statins and chronic heart failure: a failed hypothesis? / Mandeep R. Mehra.