Editors:
- Focuses on providing optimal care for a rapidly growing population of patients
- Provides new treatment algorithms in a field with little evidence basis
- A clinical reference book that fills important gaps in the ESC guidelines
Part of the book series: Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults (CHDAA)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Heart Failure in ACHD
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Front Matter
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Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book sheds new light on the diagnosis and treatment of Heart Failure in adult patients with congenital heart disease. This is a rapidly growing clinical issue for this group of patients and the clinical teams caring for them. The book highlights the major clinical dilemmas in diagnosing heart failure in patients with a lifelong cardiac condition and describes in details the utility of biomarkers, complex imaging and functional tests, e.g. the cardiopulmonary exercise testing. A step-wise approach to treatment is described from drug therapy through to devices and transplantation. As such, the book offers an essential guide for cardiologists and cardiac surgeons looking to optimize the management of patients with delicate physiology and complex disease.
Reviews
“The book is well organized, concise, and appropriately detailed. Complex concepts are presented in a manner that is easy to understand, with tables and charts to further orient readers and enable easy recollection of salient points. … This easy-to-read book is a treat for cardiologists. It is concise and appropriately comprehensive.” (Mohammed A Ahmed, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 25, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
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Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Lorna Swan
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ATTIKON University Hospital, Athens University, Athens, Greece
Alexandra A. Frogoudaki
About the editors
Lorna Swan is the Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London – one of the oldest and largest units in the world. Lorna trained in Glasgow, London and Toronto. Her previous roles have included being a council member of the British Congenital Cardiac Association and a nucleus member of the ESC GUCH Working Group. Her main interests include Pregnancy and Heart Disease and ACHD Heart Failure.
Alexandra Frogoudaki runs the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service at the University General Hospital ATTIKON in Athens. Prior to that she trained in Greece and London. She was the previous elected president of the Greek working group on ACHD and is currently the national coordinator of the ESC pregnancy register. Dr. Frogoudaki is the senior author of the ESC Heart Failure -ACHD position paper published in 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heart Failure in Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Editors: Lorna Swan, Alexandra A. Frogoudaki
Series Title: Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77803-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77802-0Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08545-2Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77803-7Published: 27 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-6659
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6667
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Pharmacotherapy, Transplant Surgery