Heart Failure: Diagnosis and Management

✍ Scribed by Andrew L. Clark, John JV McMurray

Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

(Martin Dunitz) Castle Hill Hospital, Hull, UK. Diagnosis and treatment manual for heart failure, aimed at cardiologists, clinicians, and residents. Discusses the development of a new range of drugs treating heart failure by altering neurohormones. Also covers surgical treatments and non-drug measures which can be beneficial. Softcover.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Heart failure: the size of the problem......Page 12
Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure......Page 28
Clinical diagnosis of heart failure......Page 56
The investigation of heart failure......Page 70
Treatment: diuretics......Page 88
Digoxin in chronic heart failure......Page 102
Treatment: inhibitors of the renin angiotensin-aldosterone system......Page 112
Inhibitors of the sympathetic nervous system......Page 128
Other treatment strategies: a non-pharmacological approach......Page 156
Specialist nurse-intervention in chronic heart failure......Page 172
The patient with intractable heart failure;a practical guide to management......Page 188
Index......Page 216

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