Main description:

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

Contents:

Part 1: Cellular and Molecular Basis for Heart Failure A Brief Primer on the Development of the Heart
Serge Gregoire and Sean WuThe Genetics of Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathies
Calum MacraeMolecular Signaling Networks Underlying Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure
Gerald W Dorn II MDExcitation-Contraction Coupling in the Normal and Failing Heart
Mattew Coggins, Bernhard Haring, Federica del Monte Myocardial energetics and cellular metabolism in the failing heart
Joanne S. Ingwall Animal Models of Heart Failure
William Carlson
Part II: Pathophysiology of Heart Failure Ventricular Remodeling and Secondary Valvular Dysfunction in Heart Failure Progression
Kibar Yared, Judy Hung Neurohormonal and Cytokine Activation in Heart Failure
Dennis McNamaraCardiomyopathies in the Adult
Richard RodehefferWater and Salt: the cardiorenal syndrome
Maria Rosa Costanzo
Part III: The Demographics, Diagnosis and Monitoring of Heart Failure: The Clinical Syndrome of Heart Failure
Thomas DiSalvo, Jordon ShinClinical Profiles and Bedside Assessment
Lynne Warner Stevenson Prognosis in Heart Failure
J. Susie Woo, Wayne C. Levy,
Biomarkers in Heart Failure
Ravi V. Shah, MD and Thomas J. WangNoninvasive Imaging Modalities for the Evaluation of Heart Failure
Kimberly A. Parks and Malissa J. WoodRole of Invasive Monitoring in Heart Failure: Pulmonary Artery Catheters in the Post-ESCAPE Era
W. H. Wilson Tang, Gary S. Francis
Part IV: The Medical Treatment of Clinical Heart Failure Conventional Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure: Diuretics, Vasodilators, and Digoxin
G. William Dec, MDConventional Therapy of Chronic Heart