This book offers comprehensive information on all aspects of heart failure. Coverage includes information on the pathophysiology of heart failure, the clinical evaluation of patients with heart failure, and device therapy such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
This comprehensively covers everything from pathophysiology to the evaluation of patients presenting with heart failure to medical management, device therapy, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, and include relevant cardiac imaging studies such as echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging studies which could be seen in their entirety as well as pathology slides, hemodynamic tracings and videos of cardiac surgery such as heart transplants and ventricular assist device implantation. Finally, the book would have videos of patients with heart failure, heart transplants or ventricular assist devices, describing their clinical presentation and experiences. It is structured so that it can be used as a guide by physicians studying for the general Cardiology or Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantations Boards.
Molecular Changes in Heart Failure.- Hemodynamics and Heart
Failure.- Imaging and Heart Failure.- Acute and Chronic Right Ventricular
Failure.- Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System.- Inhibition
of the Sympathetic Nervous System.- Management of the Patient with Heart
Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure:
Classification, Epidemiology and Pathophysiology.- Acute Decompensated Heart
Failure: Presentation, Physical Exam, and Laboratory Evaluation.- Acute
Decompensated Heart Failure Treatment Guidelines.- Acute Decompensated Heart
Failure: Treatment Specific Therapies.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
Treatment with Guideline Determined Medical Therapy and Discharge
Planning.- Cardiac-Oncology: Management of the Patient with Heart Failure
after Chemotherapy.- Atrial Arrhythmias and Heart Failure.- Ventricular
Arrhythmias and Heart Failure.- Cardiac Defibrillators and Heart
Failure.- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart
Failure.- Revascularization and Heart Failure.- Valve Repair and Replacement
in Congestive Heart FailurePatient Selection for Cardiac
Transplantation.- Pathophysiology of the Alloimmune Response and
Immunosuppression.- Antibody-Mediated Rejection.- Infections After Cardiac
Transplantation.- Post-Transplant ComplicationsHypertension, Renal
Dysfunction, Diabetes Mellitus, Malignancy, Arrhythmias, Osteoporosis, Sexual
Dysfunction.- Patient Selection.- Acute Mechanical Circulatory
Support.- Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Heart
Transplantation.- Medical Management of the Patient with Chronic Mechanical
Circulatory Support.- The Total Artificial Heart.- Physiology of Stem
Cells.- Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure.- Origins of Quality
Metrics.- Exercise and Patients with Heart Failure.- Heart Failure Management
and Development of Heart Failure Programs.- Inflammation and Heart Failure
Howard Eisen, Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
