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Acute Heart Failure

  • Only book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of this complex condition

  • Collaborative approach between world renowned cardiologists and intensivists

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (84 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Acute Heart Failure Syndromes: From Epidemiology to Clinical Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Transition from Normal Physiology to Pathophysiology

      1. Normal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Left Ventricular Systole
        • Marc A. Simon, Michael R. Pinsky
        Pages 43-51
      2. Normal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Left Ventricular Diastole
        • Gilles W. De Keulenaer, Dirk L. Brutsaert
        Pages 52-62
      3. Normal Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Right Ventricle
        • Etienne Gayat, Alexandre Mebazaa
        Pages 63-69
      4. Receptor Signaling Pathways in Heart Failure: Transgenic Mouse Models
        • Juhsien Chen, Howard A. Rockman
        Pages 89-111
      5. Acute Heart Failure and Cardiac Remodeling
        • Jean-Jacques Mercadier
        Pages 112-117
      6. Reactive Oxygen Species in Heart Failure
        • Min Zhang, Ajay M. Shah
        Pages 118-123
      7. Mitochondrion: Key Factors in Acute Heart Failure
        • Christophe Rabuel
        Pages 124-133
      8. Immune System Alterations in Acute Heart Failure
        • Kirkwood F. Adams Jr., Tien M. H. Ng
        Pages 134-147
      9. Organ Perfusion in Acute Heart Failure Syndromes
        • Tal H. Kopel, Marie-Reine Losser
        Pages 148-156
    3. Clinical Scenarios

      1. Acute Heart Failure in the Setting of Acute Coronary Syndromes
        • José López-Sendón, Esteban López de Sá
        Pages 168-182
      2. Acute Heart Failure and Myocarditis
        • Fredric Ginsberg, Joseph E. Parrillo
        Pages 183-199

About this book

For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study. There has been considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book provides the most comprehensive coverage to date of most aspects of acute heart failure available in a single volume, and its interdisciplinary approach makes it valuable to physicians caring for patients with acute heart failure. … By identifying our lack of knowledge, data, and carefully performed trials, the book puts researchers, clinicians, and health care authorities on notice to include acute heart failure as a topic of major concern in future research." (Helmut Drexler, The New England Journal of Medicine, September, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lariboisière University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

    Alexandre Mebazaa

  • Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

    Mihai Gheorghiade

  • Department of Cardiology Centre d’Investigation Clinique (CIC), INSERM U-684, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, University Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France

    Faiez M. Zannad

  • Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, USA

    Joseph E. Parrillo

  • Cooper Heart Institute, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, USA

    Joseph E. Parrillo

About the editors

Alexandre Mebazaa is based in Paris at the Hospital. He is a member of the joint European Society of Cardiology/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force on Acute Heart Failure.

Dr. Mihai Gheorghiade is the Associate Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Chief, Cardiology Clinical Service, Clinical Practice Director, and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Faiez Zannad is Professor of Cardiology at INSERM-CHU, Nancy, France.

Joseph Parrillo, M.D., is the Director of the Cooper Heart Institute, and the Head of the division of Cardiovascular Disease and Critical Care Medicine at Cooper. He has authored more than 800 books, articles and abstracts in his career, and is considered one of the world’s preeminent clinicians and researchers in cardiovascular disease/critical care medicine. Dr. Parrillo has received many accolades throughout his career, including the highest civilian honor for his work in heart disease and critical care medicine at the prestigious National Institutes of Health.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Acute Heart Failure

  • Editors: Alexandre Mebazaa, Mihai Gheorghiade, Faiez M. Zannad, Joseph E. Parrillo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-782-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-781-7Published: 30 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6834-8Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-782-4Published: 24 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 931

  • Topics: Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology

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