BookHoward Eisen, editor.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
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 Failure Patient Selection for Cardiac Transplantation
Pathophysiology of the Alloimmune Response and Immunosuppression
Antibody-Mediated Rejection
Infections After Cardiac Transplantation
Post-Transplant Complications?Hypertension, 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.