Translational Approach to Heart Failure

This book reviews multidisciplinary and translational state-of-the-art management of heart failure with emphasis on burning clinical questions and challenges faced by the heart team. The refined pathophysiologal understanding of the heart failure syndrome together with the surge of new technological...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bartunek, Jozef. (Editor), Vanderheyden, Marc. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7345-9
Table of Contents:
  • Pathophysiology of Heart Failure: Back to Basics
  • Heart Failure with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction  Basic Principles and Clinical Diagnostics
  • 17 Cardiorenal Syndrome Revisited
  • Doppler Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report
  • Back to Earth: Common sense in the Management of Heart Failure
  • Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure:� Rate versus Rhythm Control
  • Repetitive ICD Shocks and Incessant VTs in Heart Failure: What to Do?
  • Dyssynchronous Heart Failure:� From Bench to Bedside
  • 18 Telemonitoring and Sensor Technologies in Chronic Heart Failure
  • Functional Mitral Regurgitation: the Surgeonss Perspective
  • Percutaneous Approaches to Treat Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Current State of Affairs and Future Perspectives
  • Tailored Approach to Functional Mitral Regurgitation
  • Revascularization and� Left Ventricular Reconstruction in a Patient with Ischemic Heart Failure: to STICH or not to STICH?
  • Cardiac arrest en Refractory Cardiogenic Shock
  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices  From Bridge to Transplant to Destination Therapy
  • Novel Device-based Strategies in Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
  • Total Artificial Heart
  • Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease
  • Immunosuppressive Management of the Heart Transplant Recipient.