Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those with Congestive Heart Failure [Paperback]

Marc Silver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 16, 2002

This new and improved edition of Success With Heart Failure gives readers enlightened and compassionate insight and important tips for treating this prevalent disease, including information on:--The similarities and differences between heart failure and heart attack--The role of heart transplantation to treat heart failure--State-of-the-art implantation treatments--The psychological effect of a prognosis of heart failure--The importance of a prescribed regimen of diet and exercise

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Silver has written a compassionate, positive book for patients with heart failure on the challenges of living a quality lifestyle. He avoids technical jargon in this fairly basic explanation of what heart failure is, what can cause it, the levels of severity, and the importance of the patient's responsibility in maintaining his/her health program. Emphasizing the importance of a good doctor/patient relationship, Silver outlines what the patient can do to control his/her health through attitude, diet, medication, education, and exercise. He also discusses conventional and experimental therapies and in several chapters addresses specifically families and young heart patients. This is a very encouraging book, giving basic advice and positive motivation. An excellent choice for health collections.
Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"An excellent resource for patients and doctors dealing with heart failure." -- Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author, Love, Medicine, and Miracles

"Clearly, practically, and interestingly written; positive and encouraging." -- The Permanente Journal Winter 2003

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; 3 edition (October 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0738206008
• ISBN-13: 978-0738206004
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #649,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute LIFE SAVER if ever there was one!, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those With Congestive Heart Failure (Hardcover)

I read this book at the suggestion of the CHF team at Loma Linda International Heart Institute. It gets down to the heart (no pun) of the terrifying affects of CHF and explains what the patient and doctor can do to effect a reduction of symptoms and, as in my case, an apparent complete cure. This book is so well written in layman's language that you can't put it down once you've started reading it. I was the typical patient described in the book who had been advised by my cardiologist to "make final arrangements" as there was no treatment for cardiomiopathy. Dr. Heywood and staff at Loma Linda led me through the process of returning to a normal quality of life, step by step, as outlined in the book. They explained the treatment proceedure thoroughly and I followed it through the pages of the book, gaining optimism with every page. I not only highly recommend this book but I feel it's a MUST READ for anyone suffering from cardiomopathy as well as their families.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!, August 31, 2000

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melissa c hulvat (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Success With Heart Failure (Paperback)

I am a medical student at Loyola University and I also do research in Heart Failure. This fabulous book is consistent with everything else I know of Dr. Silver - it is both caring and extremely knowledgable. This book is a MUST HAVE for any patient or family dealing with a diagnosis of heart failure. It is writen in clear english and explains all aspects of this disease, its treatment and impacts on lives and families. "Success with Heart Failure" is not a "dumbed down" medical book. If anything it is "smartened up," with insights and practical information to go along with the often overwhelming vocabulary and litany of tests and treatment options. An enthusiastic two thumbs up!!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CHF Patient Bible Written for the Layman, October 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Success With Heart Failure (Paperback)

My mother was diagnosed with CHF and I immediately purchased this book for her. She considers it to be her bible and she consults it frequently. Without it, she would have entered into a serious illness alone guided only by her doctor. Now she has a chance to help herself through very difficult times and we her family can help her, too.