Heart Failure in Clinical Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Definition, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure

   • Lip-Bun Tan, Nigel Lewis, Diane Barker

   Pages 1-19

3. Inherited Myocardial Diseases

   • Margherita Calcagnino, William J. McKenna

   Pages 21-76

4. Valvular Heart Disease in Heart Failure

   • Farouk Mookadam, Sherif E. Moustafa, Joseph F. Malouf

   Pages 77-103

5. Congenital Heart Disease

   • Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Georgios Giannakoulas, Wei Li, Michael A. Gatzoulis

   Pages 105-121

6. Heart Failure with a Normal Ejection Fraction

   • John E. Sanderson, Yu Ting Tan

   Pages 123-137

7. Right Heart Failure

   • Per Lindqvist, Michael Y. Henein

   Pages 139-151

8. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

   • Stefan Söderberg, Michael Y. Henein

   Pages 153-163

9. Cardiac Cachexia in Chronic Heart Failure: The Metabolic Facet of CHF

   • Wolfram Doehner, Stefan D. Anker

   Pages 165-185

10. Breathing Disturbances in Heart Failure

    • Resham Baruah, Darrel Francis

    Pages 187-203

11. Stress Echocardiography

    • Eugenio Picano

    Pages 205-217

12. Echocardiography in Heart Failure

    • Per Lindqvist, Stellan Mörner, Michael Y. Henein

    Pages 219-229

13. Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging in the Assessment of Patients with Heart Failure

    • James Stirrup, Constantinos Anagnostopoulos

    Pages 231-239

14. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure

    • Bengt Johansson

    Pages 241-253

15. Principles of Treatment and Pharmacotherapy

    • Lip-Bun Tan, Ashish Y. Patwala, Michael Y. Henein

    Pages 255-275

16. Nonpharmacological Therapies

    • Andrew J. S. Coats

    Pages 277-288

17. Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Syndromes

    • Lynne Williams, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Robert J. MacFadyen

    Pages 289-308

18. Natriuretic Peptides

    • Krister Lindmark, Kurt Boman

    Pages 309-318

19. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

    • Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Cheuk-Man Yu

    Pages 319-335

20. Device Therapy in Heart Failure

    • Andrew Owen

    Pages 337-352

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome caused by a variety of etiologies: myocardial, valvular, and congenital. While the majority of its signs and symptoms are because of myocardial disease, one should not forget the less common cases which need the surgeon’s intervention. In addition, the fast development of cardiac devices has set a platform for potential recovery of patients previously considered as end-stage heart failure. I strongly recommend this excellent and comprehensive book edited by Professor Michael Henein as a manual and guide for understanding and managing patients with heart failure. Donald Ross v Preface Over the years we have made considerable progress in the diagnosis and management of the syndrome of heart failure, the end-stage of most cardiac diseases. A Pharaonic diag- sis by means of observation of the signs of fuid retention has now been replaced by n- invasive cardiac function assessment, while tests for myocardial pathology and the assessment of intra-cardiac pressures aid in the diagnosis.

• Heart Failure
• Stress
• assessment
• cardiovascular
• hypertension
• diabetes

• Battersea, London, United Kingdom

  Michael Y. Henein

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