Table of Contents

What is heart failure?
1: Andrew L. Clark: What is heart failure?
2: Andrew L. Clark: Heart failure syndromes
Epidemiology
3: Theresa A. McDonagh and Kaushik Guha: The epidemiology of heart failure
The aetiology of heart failure
4: Colette E. Jackson and Roy S. Gardner: The classical causes of heart failure
5: Giuseppe Limongelli and Perry M. Elliott: The genetics of heart failure
6: Stanley H. Korman and Andre Keren: Metabolic heart failure
7: L. Swan: Aetiology of congenital heart disease
8: Roy S. Gardner and Andrew L. Clark: Infective and infiltrative causes of heart failure
9: Martin Denvir: Iatrogenic heart failure
Pathophysiology of heart failure: cellular and molecular changes
10: Godfrey Smith and Rachel Myles: Intracellular calcium handling in heart failure
11: Peter H. Sugden and Stephen J. Fuller: Myocardial energetics
12: Alex Lyon: The failing cardiomyocyte
Pathophysiology of heart failure: systolic dysfunction
13: Theresa A. McDonagh and Henry J. Dargie: The pathophysiology of heart failure
Neurohormonal adaptations
14: Theresa A. McDonagh: Cardiac natriuretic peptides and heart failure
15: Ben Szwejkowski, Sushma Rekhraj, and Allan Struthers: Vasopressin
16: Stamatis Adamopoulos, Panagiota Georgiadou, and Vassilios Voudris: Cytokines and infl ammatory markers
The diagnosis of heart failure
17: Diagnosing heart failure
Noninvasive investigation
18: Roy S. Gardner: Basic investigation of heart failure
19: Alison Duncan: Echocardiography
20: Pushan Bharadwaj and S. Richard Underwood: Nuclear medicine in heart failure
21: C. Parsai and S.K. Prasad: Heart failure imaged by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
22: Joanne D. Schuijf, Laurens F. Tops, and Jeroen J. Bax: CT imaging techniques
23: Klaus K. Witte: Metabolic exercise testing in chronic heart failure
Invasive investigation
24: Roy S. Gardner: Invasive investigation
Prognostication
25: Roy S. Gardner: Prognostication
Comorbidities
26: Andrew L. Clark: Diastolic heart failure
27: Andrew L. Clark: Right heart failure
28: Peter van der Meer and Dirk J. van Veldhuisen: The patient with heart failure and anaemia
29: Darren Green and Philip A. Kalra: The patient with heart failure and renal dysfunction
30: Mike Greenstone: The patient with heart failure and chronic lung disease
31: T.J. Corte and S.J. Wort: Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease
32: Andrew Jamieson: Heart failure and diabetes mellitus
33: Gregory Ducroq, Bernard Iung, and Alec Vahanian: The patient with valvular heart disease and heart failure
34: Anita K. Simonds: The patient with heart failure and sleep-disordered breathing
35: Nicola L. Walker and Anne McEntegart: Heart failure and arthritis
36: Ashley Nisbet and Derek Connelly: The patient with heart failure and arrhythmias
Medical therapy for chronic heart failure
37: Iain Squire and Andrew L. Clark: Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and vasodilators
38: Henry J. Dargie and Desmond Fitzgerald: ? -Adrenoreceptor antagonists and heart failure
39: Sushma Rekhraj, Ben Szwejkowski, and Allan Struthers: Aldosterone antagonists
40: John McMurray: Angiotensin receptor blockers
41: Andrew L. Clark, Alison P. Coletta, and John G.F. Cleland: Therapeutic control of fl uid balance in chronic heart failure
42: Andrew J.S. Coats: Digoxin
43: John G.F. Cleland, Azam Torabi, Jufen Zhang, and Raj K. Chelliah: Antithrombotic agents
Medical therapy for acute heart failure
44: Susanna Price: Inotropes, pressors, and vasodilators
Nonpharmacological management
45: Massimo F. Piepoli and Andrew L. Clark: Cardiac rehabilitation and chronic heart failure
46: Lynda Blue and Yvonne Millerick: Nonpharmacological management
Device therapy for heart failure
47: Rachel Myles and Derek Connelly: Implantable cardioverter-defi brillators in heart failure
48: Badrinathan Chandrasekaran and Peter J. Cowburn: Cardiac resynchronization therapy
Surgical therapy for heart failure
49: Nicholas R. Banner, Andre R. Simon, and Margaret M. Burke: Heart transplantation
50: John R. Pepper: Revascularization and remodelling surgery
51: Emma J. Birks and Mark Slaughter: Ventricular assist devices, including intra-aortic balloon pumps
52: Andrew Murday: Mitral valve surgery in heart failure
Ventilatory strategies in heart failure
53: Mhamed Mebazaa and Alexandre Mebazaa: Ventilatory strategies in acute heart failure
Disease management
54: Suzanna Hardman: Multidisciplinary heart failure management programmes
55: Miriam Johnson: End of life
56: Jillian P. Riley and Martin R. Cowie: Monitoring
Future therapies
57: Andrew L. Clark, Henry J. Dargie, Roy S. Gardner, and Theresa A. McDonagh: The future

About the Author

Roy Gardner is a consultant cardiologist with a specialist interest in advanced heart failure and devices. He helps run the Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Service, based at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, and is actively involved in the assessment of patients for cardiac transplantation and VAD therapy. He graduated from Dundee University in 1996, and was awarded an MD in 2006 for markers of prognosis in advanced heart failure. Roy was an author and co-editor for the successful Oxford Handbook of Heart Failure. Andrew Clark was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and trained in medicine at the Westminster Medical School. He trained in cardiology at Manchester Royal Infirmary, the National Heart and Lung Institute (London) and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.

He is a founder member of the British Society for Heart Failure, and is a member of the working groups for Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology in the European Society of Cardiology. He is presently Professor and Consultant Cardiologist at Hull University and hospitals.

Reviews

Overall, the book is solid and up to date, written by recognized experts. I recommend it as a textbook to anyone who works with heart failure, primarily cardiologists, internists, nephrologists, geriatricians, heart surgeons, general practitioners and specialist nurses.
*Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association*

The text is comprehensive with detaied physiology but is delivered in a clear and understandable way amd is well supported by an international evidence base. This would be a very useful reference text for anyone involved in the management of complex clinical syndrome.
*British Journal of Cardiac Nursing*

For the general cardiologist, this textbook provides an important and thorough overview of many aspects of heart failure, and could be a valuable addition to any library. This textook provides a timely, complete, and easy to read reference work for a clinical syndrome that needs a specialized cardiac care.
*European Journal of Heart Failure*

With the transformation of this field over the past three decades, this book serves as a valuable resource with its wealth of information on topics such as pharmacologic agents, device therapy, mechanical support, transplant, and even end-of-life care. The thorough discussion of the comorbidities which accompany heart failure is unique. This book offers a great review of the field of heart failure.
*Doody's Review*

I am enthusiastic about this Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure, edited by McDonagh, Gardner, Clark and Dargie, that fills a much-needed gap in the literature. The book at once achieves a ready accessibility and an impressive degree of learning. It will be of interest to both the non heart failure cardiologist and to those cardiologists with particular expertise in the area alike, alongside all other physicians and clinicians involved in delivering heart failure care, across all health care domains. Each will bring their own knowledge to their reading but all have much to learn from this tome. If you buy no other textbook this year this should be the one, and then read it and read it and read it.
*Cardiology News, July 2013*