Treatment of Advanced Heart Disease is an expansive and up-to-date guide to the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure in children and adults.

Contents

Part I: Etiology and Epidemiology

• Epidemiology and Prognosis in Chronic Heart Failure
• Causes and Evaluation for Reversible Etiologies

Part II: Medical Management

• Diet, Metabolic Syndrome, and Obesity
• Exercise and Heart Failure
• Diuretics
• Vasodilators in the Management of Heart Failure
• Beta-Blockers in Heart Failure
• Inotropic Therapy in Heart Failure Management
• Statins, Inflammation, and Cardiomyopathy: Old Pathways, New Targets
• Atrial Arrhythmia
• Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure
• Acute Heart Failure
• Diastolic Heart Failure
• Diagnosis and Management of Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension

Part III: Device Therapy

• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• Device Therapy for Advanced Heart Disease: The Role of Implantable Defibrillators
• Device Therapy for Heart Failure

Part IV: Surgical Therapy

• Revascularization
• Valvular Surgery in Cardiomyopathy
• Surgical Ventricular Remodeling
• Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization
• Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Devices
• Selecting Patients for Durable Support with Ventricular Assist Devices
• Ventricular Assist Devices
• Total Artificial Heart
• The SynCardia Cardio West Total Artificial Heart
• Selection and Management of Cardiac Transplantation Candidates

Part V: Psychosocial Issues

• Education, Psychosocial Issues, and Sociodemographic Barriers in Heart Failure Disease Management
• Prognosis Assessment and End of Life Issues

Part VI: Research

• Regenerative Medicine: The Promise of Cellular Cardiomyoplasty
• Gene Therapy for Heart Failure
• Genetics and Heart Failure: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Genetics and Heart Failure: Dilated, Restrictive, and Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathies
• New Drugs for Heart Failure: Emerging Role of Oxidative Stress as a Target
• New Surgery for Congestive Heart Failure

Part VII: Pediatric Therapy

• Device and Alternative Therapies in Pediatric Heart Failure
• Surgical Management of Pediatric Heart Failure

Index

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