ABSTRACT
This colour handbook has been designed for those seeking a comprehensive overview of all aspects of heart failure. This highly illustrated handbook is organized into chapters, each focussing on a different area of heart failure management, starting with epidemiological background, moving through a description of the classical clinical features of the disease, and providing a summary of available diagnostic approaches. Further chapters focus on individual therapeutic options, presenting the evidence relating to the use of each in patients with heart failure. The emphasis of treatment in heart failure may also be shifting toward nondrug
management, including specialist heart failure nursing and device therapy. The importance of effective palliative care cannot be overestimated as patients may value quality over quantity of life; all of these subjects are addressed. As evidence of the ongoing research effort in heart failure, the final chapter describes exciting new approaches and technologies which might, in the future, make a real difference to patients with this devastating condition.
