Heart Failure in Clinical Practice

1. Definition, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
Lip-Bun Tan, Nigel Lewis, Diane Barker

2. Inherited Myocardial Diseases
Margherita Calcagnino, William J. McKenna

3. Valvular Heart Disease in Heart Failure
Farouk Mookadam, Sherif E. Moustafa, Joseph F. Malouf

4. Congenital Heart Disease
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Georgios Giannakoulas, Wei Li, Michael A. Gatzoulis

5. Heart Failure with a Normal Ejection Fraction
John E. Sanderson, Yu Ting Tan

6. Right Heart Failure
Per Lindqvist, Michael Y. Henein

7. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Stefan Söderberg, Michael Y. Henein

8. Cardiac Cachexia in Chronic Heart Failure: The Metabolic Facet of CHF
Wolfram Doehner, Stefan D. Anker

9. Breathing Disturbances in Heart Failure
Resham Baruah, Darrel Francis

10. Stress Echocardiography
Eugenio Picano

11. Echocardiography in Heart Failure
Per Lindqvist, Stellan Mörner, Michael Y. Henein

12. Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging in the Assessment of Patients with Heart Failure
James Stirrup, Constantinos Anagnostopoulos

13. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure
Bengt Johansson

14. Principles of Treatment and Pharmacotherapy
Lip-Bun Tan, Ashish Y. Patwala, Michael Y. Henein

15. Nonpharmacological Therapies
Andrew J. S. Coats

16. Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Syndromes
Lynne Williams, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Robert J. MacFadyen

17. Natriuretic Peptides
Krister Lindmark, Kurt Boman

18. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Cheuk-Man Yu

19. Device Therapy in Heart Failure
Andrew Owen

20. The Role of Surgery in Heart Failure
John Pepper

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public Health/Gesundheitswesen, Diabetes