Chronic Heart Failure: Pocketbook

by John J.V. McMurray, John P. McMurray, Henry Dargie, et al.

Heart failure is an inability of the heart to deliver blood (and therefore oxygen) at a rate commensurate with the body's requirements despite normal cardiac filling pressures. Heart failure is common and increasingly so, given the increase in the aging population; it has a high morbidity and a very high mortality. In the UK, at least 1-2% of the population suffer from heart failure as a result of left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Approximately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853176117
• ISBN13: 9781853176111
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.5" x 7.3"