Heart failure and arrhythmias: with 17 tables
This book is a comprehensive update on a highly controver- sial issue in cardiology with the aim to indicate causes for failure of present antiarrhythmic therapy in heart failure and to demonstrate perspectives for the future
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| Dokumenttyp: | Konferenzschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1990
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-75326-8 |
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| Online-Zugang: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75326-8
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| Verfasserangaben: | J. Brachmann, Rainer Dietz, Wolfgang Kübler (eds.) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- I PathophysiologyEditorial: Heart Failure and Arrhythmias
- Pathogenesis of Impaired Pump Function in Congestive Heart Failure
- Pathogenesis of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure
- Evaluation of the Severity of Heart Failure: Role of Compensatory Mechanisms
- Tissue Renin-Angiotensin Systems in the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
- Evaluation of the Severity of Ventricular Rhythm Disturbances: Value of Electrophysiological Testing and Recording of Late Potentials
- II Approaches to Treatment
- Hemodynamic Approach
- Editorial: How to Treat - The Hemodynamic Approach
- Structural Basis of Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Role of Collagen Network Remodeling and Potential Therapeutic Interventions
- Treatment of Heart Failure by “Afterload” Reduction: Vasodilator or Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor?
- Possible Role of Positive Inotropic Drugs in Congestive Heart Failure and in Left Ventricular Dysfunction
- Prognostic Indices and Prolongation of Life
- Antiarrhythmic Approach
- Editorial: Heart Failure and Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias
- Heart Failure and Ventricular Arrhythmias - The Antiarrhythmic Approach
- When to Treat Arrhythmias in Heart Failure?
- Antiarrhythmic Drugs in Heart Failure
- Nonpharmacologic Therapy for Malignant Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
- Role of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure
- III Prognosis
- Obtaining Reliable Information from Randomized Controlled Trials in Congestive Heart Failure and Left Ventricular Dysfunction
- Prognostic Significance of Asymptomatic Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure: Potential for Mortality Reduction by Pharmacologic Control.