Heart Failure, Second Edition

Keep up-to-date with the latest in heart failure research with the new Second Edition.br>
More than 200 high quality figures and illustrations aid cardiologists and emergency care physicians in quickly and accurately identifying the cause and severity of cardiac impairment.

Six key sections examine different aspects of the disease:

• Part I: Cellular and Molecular Basis
• Part II: Pathophysiology
• Part III: Demographics, Diagnosis and Monitoring
• Part IV: Medical Treatment
• Part V: Surgical Options
• Part VI: Molecular and Biologic Therapies

New topics include:

• mechanical and pharmacologic treatments
• discoveries in developmental biology
• new imaging modalities
• surgical options of mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation
• pharmacogenomics and gene-based and cell-based therapies
• gene expression/recurrence in
• changes in metabolic substrate utilization and pathways