Heart Failure 2nd Ed

Heart Failure, Second Edition has been updated to provide the latest advancements in heart failure research. Supplemented by more than 200 high-quality figures and illustrations, the book helps cardiologists and emergency care physicians quickly and accurately identify the cause and severity of a patient’s cardiac impairment. New topics in this edition include:  
  • Developments in mechanical and pharmacologic treatments
 
  • Discoveries in developmental biology
 
  • Up-and-coming imaging modalities
 
  • Surgical options for mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation
 
  • Pharmacogenomics and gene-based and cell-based therapies
 
  • Gene expression/recurrence in heart failure
 
  • Changes in metabolic substrate utilization and pathways