The 4 Stages of Heart Failure

If you understand heart failure, you understand cardiology

This book applies practical clinical concepts to the latest four-stage model of heart failure from preclinical risk and early asymptomatic disease to classic symptomatic heart failure and finally advanced heart failure. This framework emphasizes a tailored approach to ongoing heart failure assessment to guide therapy and improve outcomes.

Features:

• Illustrated with over 250 full-color figures

• Specific recommendations backed by clinical trial data

• Practical algorithms for diagnosis and therapy

Topics include:

• Prevention of heart failure

• Identification and treatment of structural heart disease prior to heart failure

• How to combine lifestyle changes, medications, and devices to improve outcomes

• Reversing decompensated heart failure

• Key indicators of advanced heart failure and appropriate treatment options

• Emerging new therapies

Dr. Jaski is a clinical physician, researcher, and teacher. After earning undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and biology at MIT, he graduated from Harvard Medical School where he subsequently finished his cardiology fellowship at the Brigham and Women s Hospital. Since 1985, he has been the medical director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant program at Sharp Memorial Hospital associated with the San Diego Cardiac Center. He has published extensively in the areas of cardiac pathophysiology, pharmacology, circulatory support devices, and transplant. He is board certified in the subspecialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac transplant and webmaster of Heart Failure Online.