Table of Contents

The heart failure syndrome: new insights — from receptors.- to molecular biology.- End stage heart failure — options for medical treatment and beyond..- Heart transplantation for cardiomyopathy — therapeutic gold standard?.- Cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle: achieving a variable and appropriately transformed graft.- Cardiomyoplasty in chronic heart failure: the Paris Experience.- Biomechanical hearts in aorta-descendens position — operative procedure and volumetry in adult goats.- Geometrical considerations in (reverse) remodeling.- Mitral valve repair for surgical remodeling.- Reduction ventriculoplasty.- Artificial heart: today’s facts and future horizons.- Apoptosis in heart failure — reversible?.

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