Heart failure : a case-based approach /
Heart failure is defined as the weakening of the heart's pumping power, and that it is unable to adequately supply the body with oxygen and nutrients. As the heart weakens it tends to stretch and stiffen under the stress. The kidneys respond by causing the body to retain fluid. If fluid builds...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Demos Medical Publishing, LLC,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Initial presentation of heart failure : the non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy / Peter S. Rahko
- Patient with heart failure following a large myocardial infarction / Jane E. Wilcox and William G. Cotts
- Tako-Tsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy / Scott Sharkey
- Atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy with heart failure / Anjali Fields and Mariell Jessup
- Diastolic heart failure : a common sense approach / Vinay Thohan, Ebere Chuckwu, Brandon Drafts, and Manrique Alvarez
- Acute decompensated heart failure in the previously stable heart failure patient : a practical guide to evaluation and treatment / Elaine Winkel
- Optimizing heart failure management in idiopathic non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy complicated by ventricular arrhythmia / Roy M. Johnson and William G. Stevenson
- Patient with a left bundle branch block and dilated cardiomyopathy with persistent low ejection fraction treated with resynchronization therapy / William T. Abraham
- Hemodynamic optimization in the patient with refractory systolic heart failure / Nancy sweitzer
- Evaluation and management of the heart transplant candidate / Mauricio Velez and Maryl R. Johnson
- Low gradient aortic stenosis and significant left ventricular dysfunction / Todd Dardas and Catherine Otto
- Left ventricular dysfunction with mitral regurgitation / Amanda R. Vest and William J. Stewart
- Symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy / Rachel Steckelberg and Paul Sorajja
- Heart failure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Salman Allana and Walter Kao
- Cardiotoxicity of anticancer treatment / Steven M. Ewer and Kari B. Wisinski
- Cardiac amyloidosis / Ryan Kipp and Peter Rahko
- Left ventricular dysfunction and associated renal failure : the cardiorenal syndrome / David Murray
- Evaluation and workup of a patient with familial dilated cardiomyopathy / Ana Morales and Ray E. Hershberger
- The role of risk modeling in heart failure / Eric S. Ketchem and Wayne C. Levy.