文档介绍：Diastolic Heart Failure
Otto A. Smiseth and Michał Tendera (Eds.)
Diastolic Heart
Failure
Otto A. Smiseth, MD, PhD Michał Tendera, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine Professor of Medicine
Head, Heart-Lung Clinic Head, 3rd Division of Cardiology
Department of Cardiology Medical University of Silesia
Rikshospitalet Katowice, Poland
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Diastolic heart failure
1. Heart failure
I. Smiseth, Otto A. II. Tendera, Michał
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2007925712
ISBN: 978-1-84628-890-6 e-ISBN: 978-1-84628-891-3
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Preface
It is estimated that approximately 20 million people suffer from heart failure
worldwide. Moreover, the prevalence of heart failure still tends to increase.
A signifi cant proportion of patients with this condition have n