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Contributors. <p>Preface.</p> <p>Foreword.</p> <p>1. Integrated Heart Failure Management: Marco Metra, Valerio Zacà, Savina Nodari and Livio Dei Cas.</p> <p>2. Pathobiology of Left Ventricular Dussynchrony and Resynchronization: Robert H. Helm, David D. Spragg, Khalid Chakir and David A. Kass.</p> <p>3. Electrical Assessment of the Failing Heart: Dan Blendea and Jagmeet P. Singh.</p> <p>4. Mechanical Assessment of the Failing Heart: Przemyslaw P. Borek and Richard A. Grimm.</p> <p>Color Plate Section.</p> <p>5. Clinical Trials and Response to CRT: Kenneth M. Stein.</p> <p>6. Implantation of CRT Device: Christian Sticherling.</p> <p>7. Programming CRT Devices: Bengt Herweg, Arzu Ilercil and S. Serge Barold.</p> <p>8. Troubleshootig CRT Devices and Clinical Outcomes: Dusan Kocovic.</p> <p>9. Non-CRT Pacing in the Failing Heart: Limiting Ventricular Pacing and Searching for Alternate Pacing Sites: C. W. Israel.</p> <p>10. Non-CRT Pacing in the Failing Heart: Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM): Daniel Burkhoff, Martin Borggrefe and Christian Butter.</p> <p>11. Clinical Outcome and Chronic Management of Device Patients: Patrick W. Fisher, A. G. Kfoury and Dale G. Renlund.</p> <p>12. Future Directions in Pacing to Support the Failing Heart: Angelo Auricchio and Kennth A. Ellenbogen.</p> <p>Index.</p> <p>COI Table</p>

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, M.D., Kontos Professor of Cardiology at the VCU School of Medicine<br /> <p>Angelo Auricchio, MD PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiology at University Hospital in Magdeburg, Germany and Director of the Heart Failure and Clinical Electrophysiology Program at Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland</p>

This new title in the American Heart Association Clinical Series offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy - a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities which causes heart failure. <br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>This is a critical and evolving area in cardiology, and this new book covers the state of the art issues, including:<br /> </p> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>management of heart failure</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>selection of the heart failure patient for device implantation</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>device selection</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>programming and troubleshooting</li> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>non-invasive imaging of the heart failure patient.</li> </ul> <br /> <p><i>Pacing to Support the Failing Heart</i> presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools and offers multiple figures, tables, algorithms, summaries of clinical trials and clinically important information for all cardiologists, whilst providing simple, practice-oriented therapeutic proposals for heart failure patients.</p>

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