ABSTRACT
This "patient-oriented" book was written as a meeting ground for practicing clinicians, allied health professionals, and clinical researchers to provide a practical guide for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy. It revolves around broad patient scenarios to elegantly (or expertly) guide diagnostic and management strategies. Combining the talents of over one-hundred experts in the field, the book also endeavors to challenge the reader with areas of current controversies and opportunities for clinical investigation with the goals of both orienting clinicians and stimulating their research passions.
Key Features
- Provides practical guidance based on real-life heart failure scenarios
- Discusses both acute and chronic care patient-oriented scenarios
- Covers up-to-date and novel concepts in heart failure
- Features the perspectives of current debates and controversies in heart failure
- Highlights the opportunities for research in this field
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|66 pages
Basic Concepts in Heart Failure
part Section II|30 pages
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
chapter Chapter 7|8 pages
Pathophysiology and Clinical Evaluation of the Patient with Acute Heart Failure
part Section III|100 pages
Managing Chronic Heart Failure
chapter Chapter 10|9 pages
Outpatient Management of Stable Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
chapter Chapter 15|12 pages
The Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
part Section IV|36 pages
Managing Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Heart Failure
part Section V|36 pages
Non-Cardiac Comorbidities and Heart Failure
chapter Chapter 25|9 pages
Management of Neurologic and Psychiatric Illness in the Patient with Heart Failure
part Section VI|24 pages
The Patient with Right Heart Disease
chapter Chapter 26|8 pages
Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure from Left Heart Disease
part Section VII|88 pages
Special Cases of Heart Failure