Heart Failure: An Essential Clinical Guide

This "patient-oriented" book was written as a meeting ground for practicing clinicians, allied health professionals, and clinical researchers to provide a practical guide for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy. It revolves around broad patient scenarios to elegantly (or expertly) guide diagnostic and management strategies. Combining the talents of over one-hundred experts in the field, the book also endeavors to challenge the reader with areas of current controversies and opportunities for clinical investigation with the goals of both orienting clinicians and stimulating their research passions.

Key Features

• Provides practical guidance based on real-life heart failure scenarios
• Discusses both acute and chronic care patient-oriented scenarios
• Covers up-to-date and novel concepts in heart failure
• Features the perspectives of current debates and controversies in heart failure
• Highlights the opportunities for research in this field

Dr Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD MPH PhD, FACC, FHFSA, FASE, is Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of Cardiovascular Research at Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY.

Dr Hal Skopicki, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, is the Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Chair of Cardiology, Co-Director of the Heart Institute, Director of the Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center, and Co-Director of the Ventricular Assist Device Program at Stony Brook University Medical Center, NY.

Dr Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, is the Patrick H. Lehan Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at University of Mississippi.