Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

Comprehensively covers all aspects of managing a patient with heart failure
Contains full-colour illustrations throughout to aid understanding
Written by an expert faculty of internationally-respected authors
Although the incidence of coronary heart disease is falling, its major complication, heart failure, is increasing in frequency. All health care practitioners will encounter patients with heart failure, presenting either acutely or in need of chronic heart failure management. However with recent advances in medical therapy, the prognosis of the condition has improved dramatically so that whereas once heart failure was a pre-terminal diagnosis, now for many it is treatable.

Taking the reader from an understanding of the basic mechanisms of heart failure through to an appreciation of the complexities of heart failure management and the remarkable improvements possible with good treatment, this definitive textbook is written by internationally renowned leaders in their field and comprehensively covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure. In full colour throughout, containing over 300 illustrations, and supported by detailed referencing from the huge evidence base that has developed over the last two decades, Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure also includes extensive chapters on common co-morbidities, and will be essential reading for consultant cardiologists and those in training, general physicians and those caring of the elderly, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists, and specialist nurses.

What is heart failure?
1: Andrew L. Clark: What is heart failure?
2: Andrew L. Clark: Heart failure syndromes
Epidemiology
3: Theresa A. McDonagh and Kaushik Guha: The epidemiology of heart failure
The aetiology of heart failure
4: Colette E. Jackson and Roy S. Gardner: The classical causes of heart failure
5: Giuseppe Limongelli and Perry M. Elliott: The genetics of heart failure
6: Stanley H. Korman and Andre Keren: Metabolic heart failure
7: L. Swan: Aetiology of congenital heart disease
8: Roy S. Gardner and Andrew L. Clark: Infective and infiltrative causes of heart failure
9: Martin Denvir: Iatrogenic heart failure
Pathophysiology of heart failure: cellular and molecular changes
10: Godfrey Smith and Rachel Myles: Intracellular calcium handling in heart failure
11: Peter H. Sugden and Stephen J. Fuller: Myocardial energetics
12: Alex Lyon: The failing cardiomyocyte
Pathophysiology of heart failure: systolic dysfunction
13: Theresa A. McDonagh and Henry J. Dargie: The pathophysiology of heart failure
Neurohormonal adaptations
14: Theresa A. McDonagh: Cardiac natriuretic peptides and heart failure
15: Ben Szwejkowski, Sushma Rekhraj, and Allan Struthers: Vasopressin
16: Stamatis Adamopoulos, Panagiota Georgiadou, and Vassilios Voudris: Cytokines and infl ammatory markers
The diagnosis of heart failure
17: Diagnosing heart failure
Noninvasive investigation
18: Roy S. Gardner: Basic investigation of heart failure
19: Alison Duncan: Echocardiography
20: Pushan Bharadwaj and S. Richard Underwood: Nuclear medicine in heart failure
21: C. Parsai and S.K. Prasad: Heart failure imaged by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
22: Joanne D. Schuijf, Laurens F. Tops, and Jeroen J. Bax: CT imaging techniques
23: Klaus K. Witte: Metabolic exercise testing in chronic heart failure
Invasive investigation
24: Roy S. Gardner: Invasive investigation
Prognostication
25: Roy S. Gardner: Prognostication
Comorbidities
26: Andrew L. Clark: Diastolic heart failure
27: Andrew L. Clark: Right heart failure
28: Peter van der Meer and Dirk J. van Veldhuisen: The patient with heart failure and anaemia
29: Darren Green and Philip A. Kalra: The patient with heart failure and renal dysfunction
30: Mike Greenstone: The patient with heart failure and chronic lung disease
31: T.J. Corte and S.J. Wort: Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease
32: Andrew Jamieson: Heart failure and diabetes mellitus
33: Gregory Ducroq, Bernard Iung, and Alec Vahanian: The patient with valvular heart disease and heart failure
34: Anita K. Simonds: The patient with heart failure and sleep-disordered breathing
35: Nicola L. Walker and Anne McEntegart: Heart failure and arthritis
36: Ashley Nisbet and Derek Connelly: The patient with heart failure and arrhythmias
Medical therapy for chronic heart failure
37: Iain Squire and Andrew L. Clark: Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and vasodilators
38: Henry J. Dargie and Desmond Fitzgerald: ? -Adrenoreceptor antagonists and heart failure
39: Sushma Rekhraj, Ben Szwejkowski, and Allan Struthers: Aldosterone antagonists
40: John McMurray: Angiotensin receptor blockers
41: Andrew L. Clark, Alison P. Coletta, and John G.F. Cleland: Therapeutic control of fl uid balance in chronic heart failure
42: Andrew J.S. Coats: Digoxin
43: John G.F. Cleland, Azam Torabi, Jufen Zhang, and Raj K. Chelliah: Antithrombotic agents
Medical therapy for acute heart failure
44: Susanna Price: Inotropes, pressors, and vasodilators
Nonpharmacological management
45: Massimo F. Piepoli and Andrew L. Clark: Cardiac rehabilitation and chronic heart failure
46: Lynda Blue and Yvonne Millerick: Nonpharmacological management
Device therapy for heart failure
47: Rachel Myles and Derek Connelly: Implantable cardioverter-defi brillators in heart failure
48: Badrinathan Chandrasekaran and Peter J. Cowburn: Cardiac resynchronization therapy
Surgical therapy for heart failure
49: Nicholas R. Banner, Andre R. Simon, and Margaret M. Burke: Heart transplantation
50: John R. Pepper: Revascularization and remodelling surgery
51: Emma J. Birks and Mark Slaughter: Ventricular assist devices, including intra-aortic balloon pumps
52: Andrew Murday: Mitral valve surgery in heart failure
Ventilatory strategies in heart failure
53: Mhamed Mebazaa and Alexandre Mebazaa: Ventilatory strategies in acute heart failure
Disease management
54: Suzanna Hardman: Multidisciplinary heart failure management programmes
55: Miriam Johnson: End of life
56: Jillian P. Riley and Martin R. Cowie: Monitoring
Future therapies
57: Andrew L. Clark, Henry J. Dargie, Roy S. Gardner, and Theresa A. McDonagh: The future