Pacing to support the failing heart
By: edited by Kenneth Ellenbogen and Angelo Auricchio.
Contributors: Ellenbogen, Kenneth A.; Auricchio, Angelo.; American Heart Association.
Series: AHA clinical series
Publisher: American Heart Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dallas, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781405175340
Subjects: Heart failure -- Treatment; Cardiac pacemakers; Cardiac pacing; Heart Failure -- therapy; Cardiac Pacing, Artificial; Heart Failure -- diagnosis; Heart Failure -- physiopathology; Pacemaker, Artificial
Description: This new title in the American Heart Association Clinical Series offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy--a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities which causes heart failure. It presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools and provides simple, practice-oriented therapeutic proposals for heart failure patients. This book presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools and offers multiple figures, tables, algorithms, summaries of clinical trials and clinically important information, whilst providing simple, practice-oriented therapeutic proposals for heart failure patients.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Integrated heart failure management; title: Pathobiology of left ventricular dyssynchrony and resynchronization; title: Electrical assessment of the failing heart; title: Mechanical assessment of the failing heart; title: Clinical trials and response to CRT therapy; title: Implantation of a CRT device; title: Programming the CRT device; title: Troubleshooting CRT devices and clinical outcomes; title: Non-CRT pacing in the failing heart : limiting ventricular pacing and searching for alternate pacing sites; title: Non-CRT pacing in the failing heart : cardiac contractility modulation (CCM); title: Clinical outcomes and chronic management of device patients; title: Future directions in pacing to support the failing heart.