Success with Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure - Softcover

Silver, Marc A.

 
9780738206004: Success with Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure

Synopsis

Totally revised and updated to reflect the most recent developments in congestive heart failure research and treatment, the most comprehensive and authoritative guide for patients and their families. This new and improved edition of Success With Heart Failure gives readers enlightened and compassionate insight and important tips for treating this prevalent disease, including information on:-The similarities and differences between heart failure and heart attack-The role of heart transplantation to treat heart failure-State-of-the-art implantation treatments-The psychological effect of a prognosis of heart failure-The importance of a prescribed regimen of diet and exercise

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About the Author

Marc Silver, M.D., is a cardiologist and one of the country's leading experts on conge stive heart failure. The co-editor-in-chief of Con gestive Heart Failure Journal, he is Professor of Medicine and Director of both the Heart Failure In stitute and the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program at Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois.

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