Basics of Heart Failure

1. Front Matter

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2. The Problem of Heart Failure

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-2

   2. Population

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      Pages 3-11

   3. Individual

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      Pages 13-23

   4. Circulation

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      Pages 25-52

   5. Organ

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      Pages 53-68

   6. Cell

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      Pages 69-82

   7. Sarcomere

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      Pages 83-87

   8. Gene

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      Pages 89-94

   9. Molecule

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      Pages 95-98

3. The Management of Heart Failure

   1. Diagnosis

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      Pages 99-148

   2. Outpatient Therapy

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      Pages 149-200

   3. Inpatient Therapy

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      Pages 201-253

4. Back Matter

   Pages 255-307

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Each year over 400,000 people have a new onset of heart failure in the United States, adding to a current patient population of over 4.8 million Americans. Basics of Heart Failure takes a problem-solving approach to examining heart failure and to providing the reader with an up-to-date account of our knowledge in this area. Chapters on the diagnosis and therapy of heart failure emphasize data from recent multicenter trials.

• basics
• cell
• circulation
• clinical trial
• diagnosis
• gene
• heart
• heart failure
• molecule
• organ
• population
• stress
• therapy

• Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Programs, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, USA

  Brian E. Jaski

• San Diego School of Medicine, University of California, USA

  Brian E. Jaski

Brian E. Jaski, M.D., a graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School, is the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Programs at Sharp Memorial Hospital and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He has practised cardiology for over 15 years. Actively involved in clinical research, Dr. Jaski has regularly published in medical-scientific journals.

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