Table of Contents

1. What is Heart Failure?
1: Andrew L. Clark: What is Heart Failure?
2: Andrew L. Clark: Heart Failure Syndromes
2. Epidemiology
3: Kaushik Guha and Theresa McDonagh: The Epidemiology Of Heart Failure
3. The Aetiology of Heart Failure
4: Colette Jackson and Roy S. Gardner: The Classical Causes Of Heart Failure
5: Giuseppe Limongelli and Perry Elliott: The Genetics Of Heart Failure
6: Stanley H. Korman and Andre Keren: Metabolic Disorders And Heart Failure
7: Lorna Swan and Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez: Adult Congenital Heart Disease
8: Roy S. Gardner, Simon Beggs, and Andrew L. Clark: Infective & Infiltrative Causes Of Heart Failure
9: Carol Whelan: Amyloidosis
10: Stephane Heymans: Acute Viral Myocarditis
11: Stuart Rosen and Ahmad Khwanda: Iatrogenic Heart Failure
12: Mark Petrie, Caroline Coats and Alice Jackson: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
13: Alexander Lyon: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
4. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure: Cellular and Molecular changes
14: Theresa A. McDonagh and Henry J Dargie: The Pathophysiology Of Heart Failure
15: Dimitrios Miliopoulos, Aggeliki Gkouziouta, Evangelos Leontiadis, and Stamatis Adamopoulos: Cytokines And Inflammatory Markers
16: Cherry Alexander, Godfrey Smith, and Rachel Myles: Calcium Handling
17: Julian O.M. Ormerod and Michael P. Frenneaux: Myocardial Energetics
18: Gábor Földes, Sian Harding, and Alexander Lyon: The Failing Cardiomyocyte
19: Anne Pizard and Faiez Zannad: The Interstitium And Collagen
20: Theresa A. McDonagh: Natriuretic Peptides And Novel Biomarkers In Heart Failure
5. Diagnosis of Heart Failure
21: Henry Dargie and Theresa A. McDonagh: Diagnosing Heart Failure
6. Non-Invasive investigation
22: Roy S. Gardner and Simon Beggs: Basic Investigation Of Heart Failure
23: Alison Duncan: Echocardiography
24: Pushan Bharadwaj and S. Richard Underwood: Nuclear Medicine In Heart Failure
25: Sanjay Prasad and Brian Halliday: Cardiac MRI
26: Laurens F. Tops, Michiel A. de Graaf, Victoria Delgado, and Jeroen J. Bax: CT
27: Klaus Witte and Carrie Ferguson: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing In Chronic Heart Failure
7. Invasive Investigation
28: Roy S. Gardner: Invasive Investigation
8. Prognostication
29: Roy S. Gardner and Joanne Simpson: Prognostication
9. Comorbidities: The Patient with Heart Failure andEL
30: Walter Paulus and L. van Heerebeek: Diastolic Heart Failure
31: Andrew L. Clark: Right Heart Failure
32: Paul Kalra and Michael Pope: Anaemia & Iron Deficiency
33: Daren Green and Philip A Kalra: Renal Dysfunction
34: Sara Roversi, Michael Greenstone, and Nathaniel M. Hawkins: Chronic Lung Disease
35: Simon Gibbs: Pulmonary Hypertension
36: Andrew Jamieson: Diabetes
37: Bernard Prendergast and Hannah McConkey: Valvular Heart Disease
38: Anita Simonds: Sleep Disordered Breathing
39: Nicola Walker and Sam Rodgers: Arthritis
40: Ashley Nisbet and Derek T Connelly: Arrhythmias
41: Nicola Walker and Lorna Swan: Pregnancy
42: Anna Maddison and John Sharp: Anxiety And Depression
43: John Baxter and Lesley Young: Cognitive Impairment
10. Treatment of Acute Heart Failure
44: Susanna Price and Shahana Uddin: Inotropes And Pressors
45: Susan Piper and Theresa A. McDonagh: Vasodilators
46: Christopher Armstrong and Alasdair Gray: Ventilatory Support
47: Andrew L. Clark, Alison Coletta, and John Cleland: Therapeutic Control Of Fluid Balance
11. Medical Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure
48: Iain Squire and Andrew L. Clark: ACE Inhibitors And Vasodilators
49: John McMurray: ARB & ARNI
50: Simon AS Beggs, Roy S. Gardner, and Theresa A. McDonagh: Beta-Blockers
51: S. Rekhraj, B. Szwejkowski, and Allan Struthers: Aldosterone Antagonist
52: Joseph J Cuthbert and Andrew L. Clark: Rate Limiting Agents (Digoxin)
53: Martin Cowie: Rate Limiting Agents (Ivabradine)
54: John Cleland: Antithrombotics
55: Paul Forsyth and Steve McGlynn: Problems With Medical Therapy, Compliance And Alternative Therapies
12. Non-Pharmological Management
56: Massimo Piepoli and Andrew L. Clark: Cardiac Rehabilitation
57: Lynda Blue: Nonpharmacological Management
13. Device therapy for Heart Failure
58: Jane A Cannon and Derek T Connelly: ICD
59: Paul Haydock and Peter J. Cowburn: CRT (Including Optimisation)
14. Surgical therapy for Heart Failure
60: Georgios Karagiannis, Diana Garcia Saez, Margaret M Burke, Andre R Simon, and Nicholas R Banner: Heart Transplantation
61: John Pepper: Revascularisation, Remodelling And Mv Surgery
62: Stephen Pettit: Mechanical Cardiac Support
15. Disease Management
63: Ali Vazir and Suzanna Hardman: Multidisciplinary Approach
64: Miriam Johnson: Supportive Care
65: Martin Cowie and Andrew Harper: Monitoring (Simple To Telemetry)
66: Theresa A. McDonagh: Quality Improvement In Heart Failure (Inc Guideline Comparison)
16. The Future
67: Roy S. Gardner, Theresa A. McDonagh, and Andrew L. Clark: The Future
68: Richard Jabbour and Alexander Lyon: Regenerative Therapies

About the Author

Professor 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 became a Senior Lecturer in cardiology in the University of Hull in 1999 and was promoted to Reader in 2004 and then Professor in 2009. He is responsible for running the echocardiography service in Hull, and he plays an active role in the day-to-day provision of cardiology services to the population of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
He is Chair 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. Professor Roy Gardner is a Consultant Cardiologist, Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, Glasgow. He is also a Honorary Professor University of Glasgow. His research interests include Heart failure, complex devices and biomarkers. Professor
Gardner serves on several ESC groups including HF curriculum and HFA examination committees as well as being a scientific advisor/clinical expert to NICE Theresa McDonagh is a Consultant Cardiologist
at King's College London. Her research interests are in clinical heart failure; in particular the epidemiology of heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction and the role of biomarkers.

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 ReviewBritish Journal of Cardiology*

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*