"This "patient-oriented" book provides a practical reference tool for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure. It evolves around broad patient scenarios to deploy diagnostic and management strategies. It focusses on the areas of current controversies, research needs, and ongoing research for each clinical scenario"-- Provided by publisher.

Section I: Basic concepts in heart failure-- Section II: Acute decompensated heart failure -- Section III: managing chronic heart failure -- Section IV: Managing cardiovascular comorbidities in heart failure -- section V: Non-cardiac comorbidities and heart failure -- Section VI: The patient with right heart disease -- Section VII: Special cases of heart failure.