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Heart failure a combined medical and surgical approach /

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...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: McCarthy, Patrick M., 1955; Young, James B
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Heart failure > Treatment
Heart Failure, Congestive > therapy
Cardiac Output, Low > therapy
Cardiac Surgical Procedures > methods
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Heart
MEDICAL > Cardiology
Electronic books
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470994795
Summary: 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
Carrier Form: xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780470994795
0470994797
9781405181341
1405181346
Index Number: RC685
CLC: R541.605
Contents: Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic? -- Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence for treatment guidelines -- Standard medical therapy of heart failure -- Novel therapies in heart failure -- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers in congestive heart failure -- Managing a heart failure clinic -- Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients -- Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy -- Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy -- Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunctio

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