Heart Failure - Mechanisms and Management (Hardcover, 1991. 2nd Print)

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- therapy of 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, the po- tential use of the laser, the Jarvik artificial heart, car- diomyoplasty, left ventriculoplasty and heart and heart/lung transplantation.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	March 1991
First published:	April 1991
Editors:	Basis S. Lewis • Asher Kimchi
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	502
Edition:	1991. 2nd Print
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-53145-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Cardiovascular medicine Books > Medicine > Surgery > General Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	3-540-53145-9
Barcode:	9783540531456

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