Acute Heart Failure [Hardcover]

For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study and this is the first book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of this complex condition. The book reflects the considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts which have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.

This is the first book to cover extensively the diagnosis and management of acute heart failure. The book reflects the considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts which have been proposed in the last 3-4 years.

For many years, there has been a great deal of work done on chronic congestive heart failure while acute heart failure has been considered a difficult to handle and hopeless syndrome. However, in recent years acute heart failure has become a growing area of study. There has been considerable amounts of new data reported and many new concepts have been proposed in the last 3-4 years looking at the epidemiology, diagnostic and treatment of acute heart failure.

Acute Heart Failure Syndromes: From Epidemiology to Clinical Practice.- Definitions of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes.- Risk Stratification Models and Predictors of Mortality in Acute Heart Failure Syndromes, Based on United States Registries.- Epidemiology and Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes in Europ.- Epidemiology and Management of Acute Decompensating Heart Failure in the Asia-Pacific Region.- Peculiarities of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes in Latin America and the Role of Chagas Disease.- Normal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Left Ventricular Systole.- Normal Physiology and Pathophysiology of Left Ventricular Diastole.- Normal Physiology and Pathol1