Heart Failure

This impressive guide summarizes the fundamental cellular and molecular abnormalities associated with heart failure, as well as current invasive and noninvasive diagnostic techniques, the latest pharmacological advances, device-based therapies, surgical options, and evolving molecular treatments. The book reviews current indications, complications, and long-term results of cardiac transplantation and compares the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of current and prototypic left ventricular assist devices, surpassing any other text on the topic with concise discussions of recent molecular discoveries and clinical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure.