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Synopsis This book discusses the investigation, clinical diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, the biggest cardiovascular disorder in industrialized countries. |
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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1 Heart failure: the size of the problem 1
John JV McMurray
2 Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure 17
Andrew L Clark
3 Clinical diagnosis of heart failure 45
Andrew P Davie
4 The investigation of heart failure 59
John Byrne
5 Treatment: diuretics 77
Mark C Petrie
6 Digoxin in chronic heart failure 91
Andrew Clark
7 Treatment: inhibitors of the renin-anglotensln-aldosterone
system 101
Neal Padmanabhan
8 Inhibitors of the sympathetic nervous system 117
Samuel J McClure
9 Other treatment strategies: a non-pharmacological
approach 145
Colin Berry
10 Specialist nurse-intervention in chronic heart failure 161
Simon Stewart
11 The patient with intractable heart failure-a practical guide
to management 177
David R Murdoch
Index 205
Contributors
Colin Berry MB ChB MRCP
MRC Clinical Training Fellow
Clinical Research Initiative in Heart Failure
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
John Byrne MRCP
Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
Department of Cardiology
Western Infirmary of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
Andrew L Clark MA MD MRCP
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Academic Unit of Cardiology
Castle Hill Hospital
Hull
UK
Andrew P Davie
Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
Western Infirmary of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
Samuel J McClure BSc MBChB MRCP
Specialist Registrar in
Cardiology Cardiology Department
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
John JV McMurray BSc MD FRCP FESC FACC
Professor of Cardiology
Clinical Research Initiative in Heart Failure
University of Glasgow and Honorary
Consultant Cardiologist, Western Infirmary
Glasgow
UK
David R Murdoch BMSC MBchB MRCP(UK)
Specialist Registrar in Cardiology and
Honorary Clinical Teacher
Department of Cardiology
Western Infirmary
Glasgow
UK
Neal Padmanabhan MA BM BCh MRCP(UK)
Lecturer in Clinical Medicine and Honorary
Specialist Registrar in Nephrology
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Western Infirmary of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
Mark C Petrie
Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
Western Infirmary of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
Simon Stewart BA BN Grad Dip Ad Ed PhD NFESC
Ralph Reader Overseas Research Fellow
Clinical Research Initiative in Heart Failure
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
UK
and
Department of Cardiology
University of Adelaide
South Australia
