Heart Failure, Second Edition has been updated to provide the latest advancements in heart failure research. Supplemented by more than 200 high-quality figures and illustrations, the book helps cardiologists and emergency care physicians quickly and accurately identify the cause and severity of a patient’s cardiac impairment.

New topics in this edition include:

• Developments in mechanical and pharmacologic treatments



• Discoveries in developmental biology



• Up-and-coming imaging modalities



• Surgical options for mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation



• Pharmacogenomics and gene-based and cell-based therapies



• Gene expression/recurrence in heart failure



• Changes in metabolic substrate utilization and pathways