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 patient’s 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