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Congestive Heart Failure

Proceedings of the Symposium on New Drugs and Devices October 30–31, 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Joel Morganroth

    1. Likoff Cardiovascular Institute, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. E. Neil Moore

    1. School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (DICM, volume 75)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Back Matter

    Pages 50-67
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  4. Preclinical Issues and Proarrhythmia Definitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Animal Models of Heart Failure

      • Stewart J. Ehrreich
      Pages 71-96

    3. Electrophysiology in Congestive Heart Failure Animal Models

      • C. William Balke, Joseph F. Spear, E. Neil Moore
      Pages 97-103

    4. Noninvasive Evaluation of Proarrhythmia

      • J. Morganroth
      Pages 105-115

    5. Criteria for Proarrhythmia in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure: Use of Electrophysiologic Testing

      • Leonard N. Horowitz
      Pages 117-130

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 131-140
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 171-174
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  8. Therapeutic Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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About this book

About 2. 5 million individuals have congestive heart fai lure in the United States with over 400,000 new cases expected annually. Congestive heart failure also is one of the commonest causes for hospital admissions accounting for over 5 million hospital days per year. Despite the early recognition of this condition and active medical research into both mechanisms and therapy, prognosis continues to remain dismal wi th less than a 50% expected five year survival. In the last decade we have seen many new medical and therapeutic options for patients with congestive heart failure which extend beyond the use of bed rest, sodium restriction, digitalis and diuretics. These include vasodilators of a variety of types including the angiotensin conventional enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Also, many new inotropes are under active investigation both in oral and intravenous forms. In March of 1984 a survey of over 5000 physicians was performed under the auspices of the American Heart Association (reported in: JAOC 8:966, 1986). That survey showed that there was no universally accepted defini tion for congestive heart fai lure and that a wide spectrum of diagnostic cri teria for this common condi tion existed even among academic cardiologists. There was no clear standard as to even the mos t bas ic treatment of conges t i ve heart fai lure. For example, exercise restriction was recommended by 19% of physicians, 31% recommended no change in activity, and 50% either light exercise or an exercise conditioning program.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Likoff Cardiovascular Institute, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, USA

    Joel Morganroth

  • School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    E. Neil Moore

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Congestive Heart Failure

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Symposium on New Drugs and Devices October 30–31, 1986, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Editors: Joel Morganroth, E. Neil Moore

  • Series Title: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2077-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, Boston 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-955-5Published: 31 October 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9232-6Published: 22 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2077-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-9842

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 290

  • Topics: Cardiology

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