Management of end-stage heart disease / editors, Eric A. Rose, Lynne Warner Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rose, Eric A.

Stevenson, Lynne Warner

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart failure--Surgery.

Heart failure.

Heart failure--Treatment.

Heart Diseases--surgery.

Cardiac Surgical Procedures.

Heart-Assist Devices.

Heart Transplantation.

Heart Diseases--drug therapy.

Surgery.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Diseases--surgery.

Cardiac Surgical Procedures.

Heart-Assist Devices.

Heart Transplantation.

Heart Diseases--drug therapy.

Physical Description:

xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

End-stage heart disease

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven, [1998]

Summary:

Provides an overview of the nature of end-stage heart disease and a comprehensive review of therapies in all relevant disciplines that deal with this problem. For clinicians. Halftone illustrations.

Contents:

Section I Defining the Problem / Lynne Warner Stevenson

1. Economic Impact of Heart Failure / Mark A. Robbins, John B. O'Connell 3

2. Cardiac Replacement: Estimation of Need, Demand, and Supply / Roger W. Evans 13

3. End-points for Evaluation of Therapies / Ilena L. Pina, Ross R. Zimmer, Victor Gil 25

Section II Medical Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson

4. Approach to the Patient with Severe Heart Failure / Gary S. Francis 39

5. Positive Inotropic Agents in the Treatment of Heart Failure / Rene J. Alvarez, Jr., Arthur M. Feldman 53

6. Evolution of Heart Failure Treatment: Considering Adrenergic Blocking Agents and Amiodarone / James B. Young 73

7. Arrhythmias in End-Stage Heart Failure / William G. Stevenson, Michael O. Sweeney 91

8. Permanent Pacemaker Therapy for Improvement of Cardiac Function in Advanced Heart Failure / Leslie A. Saxon 105

9. Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure: Impairment and Improvement / Donna M. Mancini 113

10. When Is Heart Failure a Surgical Disease? / Lynne Warner Stevenson 129

Section III Conventional Surgical Options / Eric A. Rose

11. High-Risk Myocardial Revascularization / John A. Kern, Irving L. Kron 149

12. Ventricular Aneurysmectomy and Surgical Ablative Approaches for Malignant Arrhythmias / Lynda L. Mickleborough 155

13. Valve Surgery in Patients with Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction / Francis D. Pagani, Steven F. Bolling 165

Section IV Myocardial Replacement Therapies / Eric A. Rose

14. Cardiac Allotransplantation / Daniel J. Goldstein, Eric A. Rose 177

15. Xenotransplantation / John H. Artrip, Oktavijan P. Minanov, Silviu Itescu, Robert E. Michler 185

16. Left Ventricular Assist Devices / Michael Argenziano, Mehmet C. Oz 197

17. Total Artificial Heart / Robert T. V. Kung 213

18. Axial Flow Pumps / O. Howard Frazier 221

Section V Myocardial Enhancement Therapies / Eric A. Rose

19. Surgical Therapy for Heart Failure: Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty / George J. Magovern, Jr., Kathleen A. Simpson, James A. Magovern, George J. Magovern, Sr. 231

20. Myocyte Transplantation / Clifford H. Van Meter, Jr. 241

21. Ventriculectomy / Patrick M. McCarthy, Vigneshwar Kasirajan, Randall C. Starling, Nicholas G. Smedira, James B. Young 251

Afterword: Novel Cardiac Replacement Therapies: A Vision for the Future / Daniel J. Goldstein, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Eric A. Rose 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0316756970

OCLC:

38562163