Chronic Heart Failure -

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Sommaire:
I. Quality of Life.- The Pathophysiological Basis, Clinical Presentation, and Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure.- On the Epidemiology of Heart Failure.- Mortality Versus Quality of Life.- Quality of Life Assessment in Congestive Heart Failure: Points of View from a Cardiologist and a Psychologist.- From Heaven Through the World to the Earth.- Quality of Life: Semantic History, Political and Scientific Terminology, Measurement and Methodology, Medical Research.- Measuring the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure: Basic Principles, Methods, and Use in Clinical Studies.- Quality of Life after Bypass and Valvular Surgery: Results of a Prospective Study.- Guidelines for Improving Prognosis, Stress Tolerance, and Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure: Cardiological and Psychological Aspects.- Quality of Life of Infants and Children with Cardiac Disease and Cardiac Failure Both Before and After Cardiac Surgery.- Health Care and Economic Aspects of the Quality of Life of Heart Failure Patients.- The Questionnaire as a Tool for the Empirical Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients with Cardiac Failure.- Quality of Life: A Relevant Endpoint.- Prevention: The Risk Factor Model and Life-Styles Relevant to Health.- II. Nitrate Therapy.- The Role of Nitrates in Congestive Heart Failure.- Chemical Pathways Proposed for the In Vitro Metabolism of Nitrovasodilators and Their Conversion into Vasoactive Species.- Effect of Intravenous Isosorbide Dinitrate Versus Nitroglycerin in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Elevated Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure.- Effects of Isosorbide-5-Mononitrate on Haemodynamics and Exercise Tolerance in Patients with Heart Failure: Comparisons with Digoxin and Placebo.- Improved Left Ventricular Geometry and Function by Prolonged Nitroglycerin Therapy After Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Intravenous Nitroglycerin in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Effects of Intravenous Nitrates in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Hemodynamic Effects of a Subchronic Therapy with 120 mg Isosorbide Dinitrate Slow-Release in Coronary Artery Disease and Left Heart Failure.- Isosorbide Dinitrate and Nitroglycerin Oral Spray in Heart Failure.- Nitrates in Heart Failure.