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Heart Failure in Clinical Practice provides a toolkit for clinicians to guide them in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with suspected heart failure. Algorithms and flow diagrams are included to give the reader an illustrated snapshot of the decisions involved in the management of these patients.

Heart Failure in Clinical Practice

Definition, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure.- Inherited Myocardial Diseases.- Valvular Heart Disease in Heart Failure.- Congenital Heart Disease.- Heart Failure with a Normal Ejection Fraction.- Right Heart Failure.- Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.- Cardiac Cachexia in Chronic Heart Failure: The Metabolic Facet of CHF.- Breathing Disturbances in Heart Failure.- Stress Echocardiography.- Echocardiography in Heart Failure.- Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging in the Assessment of Patients with Heart Failure.- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure.- Principles of Treatment and Pharmacotherapy.- Nonpharmacological Therapies.- Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Syndromes.- Natriuretic Peptides.- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.- Device Therapy in Heart Failure.- The Role of Surgery in Heart Failure.