Heart Failure Updates

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Summary

The editors have chosen topics that cover all the pharmacological therapies in use to date for the treatment of heart failure.

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Anticytokine Therapy: What Went Wrong?
Heart Failure Due to Diastolic Dysfunction: Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment
Omaptrilat: The Potential of Vasopeptidase Inhibition
Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: ELITE, ValHEFT and Where Next?
Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Aetiological, Prognostic and Therapeutic Considerations
Endothelin Receptor Antagonists: Will They Join the Therapeutic Armamentarium?
Betablockers: Mandatory for All?
Aldosterone Receptor Blockade: Is There an Opportunity for Further Blockade in Patients with Heart Failure Treated with Standard Therapy Including an ACE-Inhibitor and a Beta Adrenergic Blocking Agent?
Nurse Intervention: Can Our Patients Do Without It?
Innovative Surgery: A New Dawn in Heart Failure?
The Era of Devices? Biventricular Pacing and ICDs
New Treatments for Heart Failure: Successes and Failures
Metabolic Co-morbid Conditions in Chronic Heart Failure: Diabetes and Hypercholesterolemia
BNP: A Blood Test for the Diagnosis of Heart Failure and Monitoring of Its Treatment?
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