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Now there is an up-to-date guide for optimizing pharmacologic therapy in treating patients with heart failure. Reflecting current practice at leading medical centers, Heart Failure: Pharmacologic Management provides both the biologic and pathologic underpinnings of each pharmacologic agent in curren...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470994740 |
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Now there is an up-to-date guide for optimizing pharmacologic therapy in treating patients with heart failure. Reflecting current practice at leading medical centers, Heart Failure: Pharmacologic Management provides both the biologic and pathologic underpinnings of each pharmacologic agent in current use. It also supplies detailed discussions of the clinical investigations that support current understanding of the risks and benefits associated with the use of these drugs. Thorough references make the book useful to the novice as well as the experienced clinician. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470994740 0470994746 9781405172530 1405172533 |
| Index Number: | RC685 |
| CLC: | R541.605 |
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Diuretics in congestive heart failure / Alicia Ross, Ray E. Hershberger, David H. Ellison -- Use of digoxin in the treatment of heart failure / Deborah DeEugenio & Paul Mather -- Renin-angiotensin system and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in chronic heart failure / Rimvida Obeleniene & Marrick Kukin -- Angiotensin receptor blockers in the treatment of heart failure / Anita Deswal & Douglas L. Mann -- Beta blockers / Peter F. Robinson & Michael R. Bristow -- Aldosterone antagonism in the pharmacological management of chronic heart failure / Biykem Bozkurt -- Inotropic therapy in clinical practice / Sharon Rubin & Theresa Pondok -- Antiarrhythmic therapy in heart failure / Igino Contrafatto & Leslie Saxon -- Treating the hypercoagulable state of heart failure : modifying the risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism / Geno J. Merli & Howard H. Weitz -- Vasodilator and nitrates / Abdul Al-Hesayen & John D. Parker. Natriuretic peptides for the treatment of heart failure / Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein, Hal Skopicki & Keith D. Aaronson -- Immune modulatory therapies in heart failure: using myocarditis to gain mechanistic insights / Grace Chan [and others] -- The role of vasopressin and vasopressin antagonists in heart failure / Olaf Hedrich, Marvin A. Konstam & James Eric Udelson -- Role of erythropoietin in the correction of anemia in patients with heart failure / Rebecca P. Streeter & Donna M. Mancini -- Endothalin antagonism in cardiovascular disease / Srinivas Murali -- Pharmacogenetics / Richard Sheppard & Dennis M. McNamara -- Management of diastolic dysfunction / Arthur M. Feldman & Bonita Falkner -- Multidrug pharmacy for treatment of heart failure : an algorithm for the clinician / Mariell Jessup. |