Heart Failure (eBook)

A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach

Patrick M. McCarthy, James B. Young (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
328 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8134-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex
challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across
multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques
pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and
explained in this text.

Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an
interdisciplinary team works together to:

* arrive at a proper diagnosis

* initiate medical therapy

* make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous
therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of
mechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation.

Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence for
both drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefits
of performing the most complete surgery that is practical, then
continuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of
treatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage an
individual patient is often to adapt a variety of different
therapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying which
part of care is science and which is art.

Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach
is a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effective
strategies - operative interventions, pacing and ICD
treatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeutic
developments - and implement them for your patients.

Autor

Dr. Patrick M. McCarthy, MD. Surgical Director, Cleveland Clinic Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Dr. James B. Young, MD. Cardiovascular Medicine Vice Chairman, Section Head, Heart Failure, Cleveland Clinic Kaufman Center for Heart Failure

Inhalt

List of Contributors, vii

Preface, ix

Acknowledgements, xi

1 Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic?,
1

Randall C. Starling

2 Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence for
treatment guidelines, 9

James B. Young

3 Standard medical therapy of heart failure, 21

Mohamad H. Yamani

4 Novel therapies in heart failure, 44

W.H.Wilson Tang & Gary S. Francis

5 Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricular
pacemakers in congestive heart failure, 69

Mandeep Bhargava & Bruce L.Wilkoff

6 Managing a heart failure clinic, 99

Nancy M. Albert

7 Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients,
115

Richard D. White

8 Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy,
126

Raymond Q.Migrino

9 Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy,
145

Bruce W. Lytle

10 Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunction,
153

Patrick M.McCarthy

11 Ventricular reconstruction and device therapies for
cardiomyopathy patients, 174

Patrick M.McCarthy & Edwin C.McGee, Jr.

12 Mechanical circulatory support, 192

José Luis Navia

13 The role of heart transplantation, 228

David O. Taylor

14 Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heart
failure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanical
circulatory support, 255

Tiffany Buda & Patrick M.McCarthy

15 Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer and
cell transplantation, 272

Marc S. Penn, Samuel Unzek & Arman T. Askari

16 Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine, 289

Katrina A. Bramstedt

Disclosure Statements, 305

Index, 307

Rezensionen

"This first edition is an excellent review of the modern management of heart failure...well organized, succinct, and elegantly reviews the current modalities."
Doody's Review Service

"This first edition is an excellent review of the modern management of heart failure written by specialists from multiple disciplines. It is well organized, succinct, and elegantly reviews the current modalities in the treatment of heart failure." (Bijesh P. Maroo, BS, MS, MD, @Doody's Review Service)

"This first edition is an excellent review of the modern
management of heart failure...well organized, succinct, and
elegantly reviews the current modalities."

Doody's Review Service

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
• Schlagworte: Chirurgie u. chirurgische Spezialgebiete • Heart Failure • Herzversagen / Herzinsuffizienz • Medical Science • Medizin • Surgery & Surgical Specialities
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-8134-6 / 1405181346
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8134-1 / 9781405181341