Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure

Silver, Marc

ISBN 10: 0738206008 / ISBN 13: 9780738206004

Published by Da Capo Press, 2002

About this Item

Seller Inventory # ZBV.0738206008.LN

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738206008
• ISBN 13: 9780738206004
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: like_new

About this title

Synopsis

Totally revised and updated to reflect the most recent developments in congestive heart failure research and treatment, the most comprehensive and authoritative guide for patients and their families.

This new and improved edition of Success With Heart Failure gives readers enlightened and compassionate insight and important tips for treating this prevalent disease, including information on:
--The similarities and differences between heart failure and heart attack
--The role of heart transplantation to treat heart failure
--State-of-the-art implantation treatments
--The psychological effect of a prognosis of heart failure
--The importance of a prescribed regimen of diet and exercise

About the Author

Marc Silver, M.D., is a cardiologist and one of the country's leading experts on congestive heart failure. The co-editor-in-chief of Congestive Heart Failure Journal, he is Professor of Medicine and Director of both the Heart Failure Institute and the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois.