Heart Failure

Heart Failure, Second Edition has been updated to provide the latest advancements in heart failure research. Supplemented by more than 200 high-quality figures and illustrations, the book helps cardiologists and emergency care physicians quickly and accurately identify the cause and severity of a patients cardiac impairment. New topics in this edition include: Developments in mechanical and pharmacologic treatments Discoveries in developmental biology Up-and-coming imaging modalities Surgical options for mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation Pharmacogenomics and gene-based and cell-based therapies Gene expression/recurrence in heart failure Changes in metabolic substrate utilization and pathways