Heart Failure

Heart Failure is a major cardiovascular problem, and a problem with a growing patient population. With better management of heart failure, patients are living longer and demanding a better quality of life.

This comprehensive text is one of the latest additions to Companions to Braunwalds Heart Disease. Written by world experts in the field, it uses a clinical approach to a variety of problems associated with heart failure, including its causes, mechanisms, assessments, and therapy. This book is a complete and practical guide and an essential reference for any clinician.

• Presents detailed, clinically oriented chapters on the management of heart failure patients, from simple to complex.
• Includes an extensive section on sleep disorders and the management of this chronic problem.
• Discusses the development and implementation of heart failure guidelines.
• Details the causes of heart failure as a result of other medical problems.
• Discusses in detail, how heart failure affects all of the body's systems and organs.
• Molecular to patient coverage.
• Detailed discussion of a common related problem, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF).