Book Description
This book provides a concise, thoroughly indexed guide to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of congestive heart failure. Chapters include definition and epidemiology of CHF, pathophysiology of heart failure, sodium and volume homeostasis, diagnosing heart failure, and treatment of congestive heart failure. Nondrug therapies and drug therapies are reviewed in detail.
About the Author
Jon D. Blumenfeld, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. John H. Laragh, M.D., is Director of Cardiology Division of the Cornell Medical Center and Director of the Cardiovascular Center at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center.