Heart failure : pharmacologic management / edited by Arthur M. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, Arthur M. (Arthur Michael), 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Congestive heart failure--Chemotherapy.

Congestive heart failure.

Heart Failure--drug therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Failure--drug therapy.

Physical Description:

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Futura, [2006]

Summary:

Heart failure is a devastating disease of epidemic proportions. Physicians are faced with an increasingly large choice of treatment options and questions including: how different genetic, racial and gender backgrounds can influence a patient's response; how to monitor treatment once it has begun; and what sideeffects can be expected from these agents.

Heart Failure: Pharmacologic Management is the essential guide for physicians working with these issues to optimise their use of pharmacologic therapy for patients with heart failure.

This extensively referenced text provides both the biologic and pathologic underpinning for the use of each pharmacologic agent currently recommended, including the clinical investigations that have led to our understanding of the risks and benefits associated with the use of these drugs. In addition, this book reviews several areas, including vasopressin antagonists, that are under active investigation, but which are expected to prove fruitful in the therapy of patients with heart failure.

Heart Failure: Pharmacologic Management is written by individuals with extensive expertise within the field and is the only text to focus on pharmacologic therapy. It will assist the practitioner in easily making sense of the extensive number of treatment agents available and should be considered a vital contribution to your bookshelf.

Contents:

Diuretics in congestive heart failure / Alicia Ross, Ray E. Hershberger, David H. Ellison

Use of digoxin in the treatment of heart failure / Deborah DeEugenio & Paul Mather

Renin-angiotensin system and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in chronic heart failure / Rimvida Obeleniene & Marrick Kukin

Angiotensin receptor blockers in the treatment of heart failure / Anita Deswal & Douglas L. Mann

Beta blockers / Peter F. Robinson & Michael R. Bristow

Aldosterone antagonism in the pharmacological management of chronic heart failure / Biykem Bozkurt

Inotropic therapy in clinical practice / Sharon Rubin & Theresa Pondok

Antiarrhythmic therapy in heart failure / Igino Contrafatto & Leslie A. Saxon

Treating the hypercoagulable state of heart failure: modifying the risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism / Geno J. Merli & Howard H. Weitz

Vasodilator and nitrates / Abdul Al-Hesayen & John D. Parker

Natriuretic peptides for the treatment of heart failure / Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein, Hal Skopicki & Keith D. Aaronson

Immune modulatory therapies in heart failure: using myocarditis to gain mechanistic insights / Grace Chan ... [et al.]

The role of vasopressin and vasopressin antagonists in heart failure / Olaf Hedrich, Marvin A. Konstam & James Eric Udelson

Role of erythropoietin in the correction of anemia in patients with heart failure / Rebecca P. Streeter & Donna M. Mancini

Endothelin antagonism in cardiovascular disease / Srinivas Murali

Pharmacogenetics / Richard Sheppard & Dennis M. McNamara

Management of diastolic dysfunction / Arthur M. Feldman & Bonita Falkner

Multidrug pharmacy for treatment of heart failure: an algorithm for the clinician / Mariell Jessup.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405103612

OCLC:

61351606

Publisher Number:

9781405103619