Heart Failure
A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach
Published on 8. May 2008
328 pages
978-1-4051-8134-1 (ISBN)
Description
Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complexchallenge that requires cooperation and coordination acrossmultiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniquespioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored andexplained in this text.
Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how aninterdisciplinary team works together to:
* arrive at a proper diagnosis
* initiate medical therapy
* make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneoustherapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use ofmechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation.
Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence forboth drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefitsof performing the most complete surgery that is practical, thencontinuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect oftreatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage anindividual patient is often to adapt a variety of differenttherapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying whichpart of care is science and which is art.
Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approachis a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effectivestrategies - operative interventions, pacing and ICDtreatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeuticdevelopments - and implement them for your patients.
Reviews / Votes
"This first edition is an excellent review of the modern management of heart failure...well organized, succinct, and elegantly reviews the current modalities." Doody's Review Service "This first edition is an excellent review of the modern management of heart failure written by specialists from multiple disciplines. It is well organized, succinct, and elegantly reviews the current modalities in the treatment of heart failure." (Bijesh P. Maroo, BS, MS, MD, @Doody's Review Service) "This first edition is an excellent review of the modernmanagement of heart failure...well organized, succinct, andelegantly reviews the current modalities." Doody's Review ServiceMore details
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Persons
Dr. Patrick M. McCarthy, MD. Surgical Director, ClevelandClinic Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
Dr. James B. Young, MD. Cardiovascular Medicine ViceChairman, Section Head, Heart Failure, Cleveland Clinic KaufmanCenter for Heart Failure
Content
List of Contributors, vii
Preface, ix
Acknowledgements, xi
1 Epidemiology of heart failure: progression to pandemic?,1
Randall C. Starling
2 Heart failure clinical trials: shaping the evidence fortreatment guidelines, 9
James B. Young
3 Standard medical therapy of heart failure, 21
Mohamad H. Yamani
4 Novel therapies in heart failure, 44
W.H.Wilson Tang & Gary S. Francis
5 Implantable cardioverter defibrillators and biventricularpacemakers in congestive heart failure, 69
Mandeep Bhargava & Bruce L.Wilkoff
6 Managing a heart failure clinic, 99
Nancy M. Albert
7 Novel imaging technologies for heart failure patients,115
Richard D. White
8 Assessment of myocardial viability in ischemic cardiomyopathy,126
Raymond Q.Migrino
9 Bypass surgery in the treatment of ischemic cardiomyopathy,145
Bruce W. Lytle
10 Valve surgery for patients with left ventricular dysfunction,153
Patrick M.McCarthy
11 Ventricular reconstruction and device therapies forcardiomyopathy patients, 174
Patrick M.McCarthy & Edwin C.McGee, Jr.
12 Mechanical circulatory support, 192
José Luis Navia
13 The role of heart transplantation, 228
David O. Taylor
14 Perioperative care of the surgical patient with heartfailure: from conventional cardiac surgery to mechanicalcirculatory support, 255
Tiffany Buda & Patrick M.McCarthy
15 Biological approaches to heart failure: gene transfer andcell transplantation, 272
Marc S. Penn, Samuel Unzek & Arman T. Askari
16 Ethical issues in cardiothoracic medicine, 289
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Disclosure Statements, 305
Index, 307
