Heart Failure (eBook)

Arthur M. Feldman is the editor of Heart Failure: Pharmacologic Management, published by Wiley.

Contributors.

Introduction.

1. Diuretics in congestive heart failure (Alicia Ross, Ray E.
Hershberger and David H. Ellison).

2. Use of digoxin in the treatment of heart failure (Deborah
DeEugenio and Paul J. Mather).

3. Renin-angiotensin system and angiotensin converting enzyme
inhibitors in chronic heart failure (Rimvida Obeleniene and Marrick
Kukin).

4. Angiotensin receptor blockers in the treatment of hart
failure (Anita Deswal and Douglas L. Mann).

5. Beta blockers (Peter F. Robinson and Michael R. Bristow).

6. Aldosterone antagonism in the pharmacological management of
chronic heart failure (Biykem Bozkurt).

7. Inotropic therapy in clinical practice (Sharon Rubin and
Theresa Pondok).

8. Antiarrhythmic therapy in heart failure (Igino Contrafatto
and Leslie A. Saxon).

9. Treating the hypercoagulable state of heart failure:
modifying the risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism (Geno J.
Meril and Hoard H. Weitz).

10. Vasodilator and nitrates (Abdul Al-Hesayen and John D.
Parker).

11. Natriuretic peptides fro the treatment of heart failure
(Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein, Hal Skopicki and Keith D.
Aaronson).

12. Immune modulatory therapies in heart failure: using
myocarditis to gain mechanistic insights (Grace Chan, Koichi Fuse,
Mei Sun, Bill Ayach and Peter P. Liu).

13. The role of vasopressin and vasopressin antagonists in heart
failure (Olaf Hedrich, Maervin A. Konstam and James Eric
Udelson).

14. Role of erythropoietin in the correction of anemia in
patients with heart failure (Revecca P. Streeter and Donna M.
Mancini).

15. Endothelin antagonism cardiovascular disease (Srinivas
Murali).

16. Pharmacogenetics (Richard Sheppard and Dennis M.
McNamara).

17. Management of diastolic dysfunction (Arthur M. Feldman and
Bonita Fakner).

18. Multidrug pharmacy for treatment of heart failure: an
algorithm for the clinician (Mariell Jessup).

Index.