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Pacing to Support the Failing Heart

ISBN: 978-1-444-30346-9

January 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

392 pages

Description
This new title in the American Heart Association Clinical Series offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy - a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities which causes heart failure. It presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools and provides simple, practice-oriented therapeutic proposals for heart failure patients.
About the Author
Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, M.D., Kontos Professor of Cardiology at the VCU School of Medicine

Angelo Auricchio, MD PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiology at University Hospital in Magdeburg, Germany and Director of the Heart Failure and Clinical Electrophysiology Program at Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland

Features

  • Offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy - a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities which causes heart failure

  • Presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools

  • Provides simple, practice-oriented therapeutical proposals for heart failure patients