Oxford Textbook of Heart Failure

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 NICETheresa 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.

• 1. What is Heart Failure? 1: Andrew Clark: What is Heart Failure? 2: Andrew 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 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 Gardner, Simon Beggs, and Andrew 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 McDonagh and Henry J Dargie: The Pathophysiology Of Heart Failure 15: Dimitrios Miliopoulos, Aggeliki Gkouziouta, Evangelos Leontiadis, and Stomatis Adaniokous: 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 McDonagh: Natriuretic Peptides And Novel Biomarkers In Heart Failure 5. Diagnosis of Heart Failure 21: Henry Dargie and Theresa McDonagh: Diagnosing Heart Failure 6. Non-Invasive investigation 22: Roy 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 Gardner: Invasive Investigation 8. Prognostication 29: Roy 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 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 McDonagh: Vasodilators 46: Christopher Armstrong and Alasdair Gray: Ventilatory Support 47: Andrew Clark, Alison Coletta, and John Cleland: Therapeutic Control Of Fluid Balance 11. Medical Therapy for Chronic Heart Failure 48: Iain Squire and Andrew Clark: ACE Inhibitors And Vasodilators 49: John McMurray: ARB & ARNI 50: Simon AS Beggs, Roy S Gardner, and Theresa McDonagh: Beta-Blockers 51: S. Rekhraj, B. Szwejkowski, and Allan Struthers: Aldosterone Antagonist 52: Joseph J Cuthbert and Andrew 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 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 McDonagh: Quality Improvement In Heart Failure (Inc Guideline Comparison) 16. The Future 67: Roy Gardner, Theresa McDonagh, and Andrew Clark: The Future 68: Richard Jabbour and Alexander Lyon: Regenerative Therapies

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.