Congestive heart failure

Comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference on all basic and clinical aspects of heart failure. Coverage includes an entire section on pharmacologic therapy and a twenty-chapter section on clinical approaches to acute and chronic heart failure. This edition has new chapters on impact and treatment of comorbidities, prevention of sudden cardiac death, rationale for use of anticoagulants, ultrafiltration, use of mechanical devices, and gene and cell therapy. Readers will find up-to-date information on genetics, surgical therapies, ventricular synchronization, defibrillator therapy, mechanical approaches to atrial fibrillation, left ventricular assist devices, ventricular support and ventricular remodeling surgery, and myocardial regeneration/cell transplantation.

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface 000 -- Contributors 000 -- Part I: Epidemiology And -- Pathophysiology Of Heart -- Failure 000 -- 1 Epidemiology of Heart Failure 3 -- Mikhail Kosiborod and Harlan Krumholz -- 2 Cellular and Molecular Abnormalities in -- Cardiac Myocytes 15 -- Xiongwen Chen, Rachel Wilson, and Steven Houser -- 3 Determinants of Cardiac Remodeling and Progression to Heart Failure 30 -- Jean-Jacques Mercardier -- 4 Cytoskeletal Abnormalities in Cardiocytes During Heart Failure 52 -- George Cooper, IV -- 5 Abnormalities in Calcium Cycling in -- Heart Failure 64 -- Judith Karen Gwathmey, Federica del Monte, and Roger Joseph Hajjar -- 6 Abnormalities in Cardiac Contraction: Systolic Dysfunction 82 -- Blase A. Carabello -- 7 Heart Failure with Normal Ejection Fraction 97 -- Carolyn S.P. Lam and Margaret Redfield -- 8 Cellular, Molecular, and Structural Changes During Cardiac Remodeling 128 -- Richard Patten -- 9 Remodeling of the Cardiac Interstitium in Heart Failure 147 -- Karl T. Weber, Yao Sun, Syamal K. Bhattacharya, Robert A. Ahokas, and Ivan C. Gerling -- 10 The Renin-Angiotensin System 167 -- Barry H. Greenberg -- 11 Sympathetic Nervous System in…