ABSTRACT

This book discusses the investigation, clinical diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, the biggest cardiovascular disorder in industrialized countries.

chapter |3 pages

Summary

chapter |9 pages

Conclusions

part |2 pages

Signs of fluid retention

chapter |5 pages

Scoring systems

part 4|1 pages

The investigation of heart failure

chapter |10 pages

Core investigations in heart

part |2 pages

Novel investigations in heart

chapter |5 pages

References

part 5|1 pages

Treatment: diuretics

chapter |6 pages

Classes of diuretics

chapter |7 pages

Are diuretics an

chapter 6|10 pages

Digoxin in chronic heart failure

Andrew Clark Background

part 7|1 pages

Treatment: inhibitors of the renin–angiotensin-aldosterone system

chapter |11 pages

Physiology and

chapter |4 pages

Conclusions

part 10|1 pages

Specialist nurse-intervention in chronic heart failure