Download or read book Stage B, a Pre-cursor of Heart Failure, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics written by Jay N. Cohn and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-01-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the joint American College of Cardiology /American Heart Association classification system, Stage B heart failure refers to patients with structural heart disease but no symptoms of heart failure. Preventing progression of heart failure in Stage B patients is a central concern to heart failure specialists, so two issues have been devoted to this topic. Part I focuses on an understanding of structural heart disease and the factors that cause progression from risk of heart failure to development of structural changes.