Chronic Heart Failure: Pocketbook (MARTIN DUNITZ MEDICAL POCKET BOOKS)

By John J.V. McMurray, John P. McMurray, Henry Dargie, et al.

Heart failure is an inability of the heart to deliver blood (and therefore oxygen) at a rate commensurate with the body's requirements despite normal cardiac filling pressures. Heart failure is common and increasingly so, given the increase in the aging population; it has a high morbidity and a very high mortality. In the UK, at least 1-2% of the population suffer from heart failure as a result of left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Approximately the same number again has asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction. It is a big problem. A number of effective therapeutic and non-therapeutic treatments exist. This pocketbook elegantly summarizes the background, the diagnosis, and the clinical evidence for the most effective treatments available for heart failure patients.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853176117
• ISBN13: 9781853176111
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.3" x 4.8"