Publisher's Synopsis
This book deals with heart failure in all its aspects, in-cluding chapters relating to receptor physiology and patho-physiological mechanisms, ventricular function and itsassessment and the clinical aspects of heart failure inischemic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heartdisease and the timing of valve replacement. The pharmaco-therapyof heart failure deals with inotropic drugs, ACE in-hibitors, nitrates and calcium antagonists. Extending intothe newer interventional techniques and surgical techniquesthe book includes chapters on balloon valvuloplasty, thepo-tential use of the laser, the Jarvik artificial heart, car-diomyoplasty, left ventriculoplasty and heart and heart/lungtransplantation.
