Heart Failure Mechanisms and Management /
This book deals with heart failure in all its aspects, in- cluding chapters relating to receptor physiology and patho- physiological mechanisms, ventricular function and its assessment and the clinical aspects of heart failure in ischemic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heart disease and th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1991.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book deals with heart failure in all its aspects, in- cluding chapters relating to receptor physiology and patho- physiological mechanisms, ventricular function and its assessment and the clinical aspects of heart failure in ischemic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heart disease and the timing of valve replacement. The pharmaco- therapyof heart failure deals with inotropic drugs, ACE in- hibitors, nitrates and calcium antagonists. Extending into the newer interventional techniques and surgical techniques the book includes chapters on balloon valvuloplasty, thepo- tential use of the laser, the Jarvik artificial heart, car- diomyoplasty, left ventriculoplasty and heart and heart/lung transplantation. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 474 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783642582318 (electronic bk.) 3642582311 (electronic bk.) |