JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition
Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition
ISBN: 9780801894237
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Heart failure - the expression alone is scary. The idea that the blood-pumping organ in our chest can struggle, stutter, or suddenly stop is deeply disconcerting. But for those diagnosed with the disease, the future is not necessarily bleak. With the right treatments, exercise, good nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle, people with heart failure can improve their condition and live well.Heart failure expert Edward K. Kasper teams with journalist - and survivor - Mary Knudson to give readers an honest account of this misunderstood disease. The authors explain the complex science of heart failure and look critically at the care available.
By Edward K. Kasper, Mary Knudson
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 280
Introduction
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
