This book deals with heart failure in all its aspects, in-
cluding chapters relating to receptor physiology and patho-
physiological mechanisms, ventricular function and its assessment and the clinical aspects of heart failure in ischemic heart failure, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heart disease and the timing of valve replacement. The pharmaco-
therapyof heart failure deals with inotropic drugs, ACE in-
hibitors, nitrates and calcium antagonists. Extending into the newer interventional techniques and surgical techniques the book includes chapters on balloon valvuloplasty, thepo-
tential use of the laser, the Jarvik artificial heart, car-
diomyoplasty, left ventriculoplasty and heart and heart/lung transplantation.