Keep up-to-date with the latest in heart failure research with the new Second Edition.br
More than 200 high quality figures and illustrations aid cardiologists and emergency care physicians in quickly and accurately identifying the cause and severity of cardiac impairment.
Six key sections examine different aspects of the disease:
Part I: Cellular and Molecular Basis
Part II: Pathophysiology
Part III: Demographics, Diagnosis and Monitoring
Part IV: Medical Treatment
Part V: Surgical Options
Part VI: Molecular and Biologic Therapies
New topics include:
mechanical and pharmacologic treatments
discoveries in developmental biology
new imaging modalities
surgical options of mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation
pharmacogenomics and gene-based and cell-based therapies
gene expression/recurrence in
changes in metabolic substrate utilization and pathways