Description
Book SynopsisExplains the science of heart failure. This book helps those with the disease understand the causes of the disease, normal and abnormal heart rhythms, the best treatments for different types of heart failure, the advantages and disadvantages of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and the foods to be taken.
Trade ReviewA bad ticker doesn't mean a bad life. Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition is a complete and comprehensive guide to heart failure. Midwest Book Review 2010 A book that will enable people to begin learning the basics of heart failure-its causes, symptoms, treatment, and challenges. -- Neil A. Grauer Hopkins Reader 2010
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: The Causes and Diagnosis of Heart Failure
1. What Is This Thing Called Heart Failure?
2. Coronary Artery Disease: The Major Cause of Heart Failure
3. Cardiomyopathy: A Leading Cause of Heart Failure
4. Diagnosing Heart Failure and Its Causes
Part II: Treatments for Heart Failure
5. Drug Treatments
6. Conversations of the Heart: Arrhythmias and Pacemakers
7. Straight Talk about Sudden Death: Should I Get an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator?
8. Surgical Treatments
9. Device Treatments for the Critically Ill
10. Getting a New Heart
11. Future Therapies
Part III: The Challenges of Living with Heart Failure
12. Nutrition and Heart Failure, by Samantha Heller
13. Exercise: How Much and What Kind?
14. The Patient-Doctor Therapeutic Relationship
15. What You Need to Know about the Hospital
16. Heart Failure in Elderly People
17. What You Can Do for Yourself
18. Where to Find More Information
Epilogue
Appreciation
Appendix: Trade Names and Generic Names of Drugs
Notes on Sources
Index
