Heart Failure: An Essential Clinical Guide

Description:

This "patient-oriented" book was written as a meeting ground for practicing clinicians, allied health professionals, and clinical researchers to provide a practical guide for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy. It revolves around broad patient scenarios to elegantly (or expertly) guide diagnostic and management strategies. Combining the talents of over one-hundred experts in the field, the book also endeavors to challenge the reader with areas of current controversies and opportunities for clinical investigation with the goals of both orienting clinicians and stimulating their research passions. Key Features Provides practical guidance based on real-life heart failure scenarios Discusses both acute and chronic care patient-oriented scenarios Covers up-to-date and novel concepts in heart failure Features the perspectives of current debates and controversies in heart failure Highlights the opportunities for research in this field

Table of Contents:

SECTION I: BASIC CONCEPTS IN HEART FAILURE

1. Definitions and Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Failure

2. Epidemiology of Heart Failure

3. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction

4. The Pathophysiology of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

5. Principles of Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy

6. Implantable Device Therapy in Heart Failure

SECTION II: ACUTE DECOMPENSATED HEART FAILURE

7. Pathophysiology and Clinical Evaluation of the Patient with Acute Heart Failure

8. Therapeutic Approaches in Acute Heart Failure

9. Advanced Therapeutic Options in Acute Heart Failure

SECTION III: MANAGING CHRONIC HEART FAILURE

10. Outpatient Management of Stable Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction

11. Exercise and Rehabilitation in Heart Failure

12. The Patient with Ischemic Heart Failure

13. The Non-Ischemic HEART FAILURE Patient

14. Valvular Heart Disease and Heart Failure

15. The Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

16. Heart Failure with Recovered Ejection Fraction (HFrecEF) and Heart Failure with Midrange Ejection Fraction (HFmrEF)

17. The Advanced HEART FAILURE Patient

18. Palliative Care and Advanced Directives in Heart Failure

SECTION IV: MANAGING CARDIOVASCULAR COMORBIDITIES IN HEART FAILURE

19. Management of Hypertension in Heart Failure

20. Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Heart Failure

21. Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure

SECTION V: NON-CARDIAC COMORBIDITIES AND HEART FAILURE

22. The Management of Patients with Heart Failure and Diabetes

23. The Patient with Renal Dysfunction

24. The Patient with Anemia and Iron Deficiency

25. Management of Neurologic and Psychiatric Illness in the Patient with Heart Failure

SECTION VI: THE PATIENT WITH RIGHT HEART DISEASE

26. Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure from Left Heart Disease

27. The Patient with Non-Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension

SECTION VII: SPECIAL CASES OF HEART FAILURE

28. Heart Failure in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

29. Cancer Therapies and Cardiac Dysfunction

30. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure in Pregnancy

31. Dilated Cardiomyopathy

32. Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo Syndrome)

33. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

34. Myocarditis

35. Infiltrative Diseases: Amyloid

36. Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies: Fabry Disease and Iron-Overload Cardiomyopathy

Index