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Heart failure：a combined medical and surgical approach

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: McCarthy Patrick M., 1955-; Young James B.
Published: Blackwell Futura,
Publisher Address: Malden, Mass.
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Heart failure > Treatment.
Heart Failure, Congestive > therapy.
Cardiac Output, Low > therapy.
Cardiac Surgical Procedures > methods.
Carrier Form: xi, 314 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9781405122030 (alk. paper)
140512203X (alk. paper)
Index Number: R541
CLC: R541.605
Call Number: R541.605/H436
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 dysfunction -- Ventricular reconstruction and device therapies for cardiomyopathy patients -- Mechanical circulatory support -- The role of heart transplantation -- Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heart failure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanical circulatory support -- Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer and cell transplantation -- Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine.

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