Heart Failure A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach

Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach By
2007 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 140512203X | PDF | 6 MB
Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and explained in this text. Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an interdisciplinary team works together to: arrive at a proper diagnosis initiate medical therapy make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of mechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation. Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence for both drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefits of performing the most complete surgery that is practical, then continuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of treatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage an individual patient is often to adapt a variety of different therapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying which part of care is science and which is art. Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach is a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effective strategies - operative interventions, pacing and ICD treatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeutic developments - and implement them for your patients.Content: Chapter 1 Epidemiology of Heart Failure: Progression to Pandemic? (pages 1-8): Randall C. StarlingChapter 2 Heart Failure Clinical Trials: Shaping the Evidence for Treatment Guidelines (pages 9-20): James B. YoungChapter 3 Standard Medical Therapy of Heart Failure (pages 21-43): Mohamad H. YamaniChapter 4 Novel Therapies in Heart Failure (pages 44-68): W.H. Wilson Tang and Gary S. FrancisChapter 5 Implantable Cardioverterdefibrillators and Biventricularpacemakers in Congestive Heart Failure (pages 69-98): Mandeep Bhargava and Bruce L. WilkoffChapter 6 Managing a Heart Failure Clinic (pages 99-114): Nancy M. AlbertChapter 7 Novel Imaging Technologies Forheart Failure Patients (pages 115-125): Richard D. WhiteChapter 8 Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (pages 126-144): Raymond Q. MigrinoChapter 9 Bypass Surgery in the Treatment of Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (pages 145-152): Bruce W. LytleChapter 10 Valve Surgery for Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction (pages 153-173): Patrick M. McCarthyChapter 11 Ventricular Reconstruction and Device Therapies for Cardiomyopathy Patients (pages 174-191): Patrick M. McCarthy and Edwin C. McGeeChapter 12 Mechanical Circulatory Support (pages 192-227): Jose Luis NaviaChapter 13 The Role of Heart Transplantation (pages 228-254): David O. TaylorChapter 14 Perioperative Care of the Surgical Patient with Heart Failure: From Conventional Cardiac Surgery to Mechanical Circulatory Support (pages 255-271): Tiffany Buda and Patrick M. McCarthyChapter 15 Biological Approaches to Heart Failure: Gene Transfer and Cell Transplantation (pages 272-288): Marc S. Penn, Samuel Unzek and Arman T. AskariChapter 16 Ethical Issues in Cardiothoracic Medicine (pages 289-303): Katrina A. Bramstedt