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

part Section I|66 pages

Basic Concepts in Heart Failure

part Section III|100 pages

Managing Chronic Heart Failure

part Section IV|36 pages

Managing Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Heart Failure

part Section VI|24 pages

The Patient with Right Heart Disease

part Section VII|88 pages

Special Cases of Heart Failure

chapter Chapter 33|9 pages

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

chapter Chapter 34|11 pages

Myocarditis

chapter Chapter 35|9 pages

Infiltrative Diseases

Amyloid

chapter Chapter 36|9 pages

Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies

Fabry Disease and Iron-Overload Cardiomyopathy