Heart Failure: What a Non-Heart Failure Specialist Needs to Know

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Series: Cardiology Research and Clinical Developments
BISAC: MED010000

Approaches to and therapy for many cardiovascular disorders have changed greatly over the past several decades, but perhaps none have changed so greatly as the understanding of and therapy for heart failure. Advances have occurred in the understanding of the varying physiology for this clinical syndrome, including pharmacologic therapy, device therapy, and therapy for truly advanced stages of the syndrome. Future developments may well involve gene or stem cell therapy. Clinical trials continue to define the roles of newer approaches. Clearly, this highly prevalent syndrome and the evolution of its clinical appreciation and treatment have become too extensive; it is a rapidly evolving subject that until now has not been adequately covered in a standard medical textbook.

Heart Failure: What a Non-Heart Failure Specialist Needs to Know has been created to reflect the growth and expansion of the clinical field of heart failure and is aimed at non-specialists (primary care physicians, ER staff, general cardiologists, trainees, etc.) who encounter these patients on a daily basis. The authors hope that this book will provide the background for practitioners to develop rational therapeutic regimens designed to alleviate symptoms and improve the quality and quantity of life for patients with heart failure.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
(Sharon A Hunt, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA)

Chapter 1. Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Heart Failure
(Sunil E. Saith, MD, Stephen Pan, MD, MS, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA)

Chapter 2. Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
(Tamas Alexy, MD, Taylor Lebeis, MD, Robert Cole, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Chapter 3. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
(Dawn Pedrotty, MD, PhD and Payman Zamani, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Chapter 4. Arrhythmias in Heart Failure
(Ashish A. Bhimani MD and Bruce S. Stambler, MD, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Chapter 5. Pulmonary Hypertension
(Tatiana Guimarães, MD, and Rui Plácido, MD, Santa Maria University Hospital, Cardiology, Lisbon, Portugal)

Chapter 6. Cardio-Oncology
(Zubair Shah, MD and Charles Porter MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

Chapter 7. Rheumatic Disease and Heart Failure
(Pankti Reid, MD and Vladimir M. Liarski, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)

Chapter 8. Heart Failure in Primary Care
(Eddie Needham, MD, Florida Hospital, FL, USA)

Chapter 9. Nutrition for Heart Failure Management
(Joy Chen, Clinical Dietitian, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)

Chapter 10. Exercise and Heart Failure
(Sandra Redderoth, MS, RCEP, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Chapter 11. Basic Principles of Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy
(Roy Lee, Pharm D, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA)

Chapter 12. Identifying Patients with Advanced Heart Failure
(Amin Yehya, MD, MS, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Chapter 13. Temporary and Permanent Mechanical Circulatory Support
(Zubair Shah, MD and Andrew Sauer, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA)

Chapter 14. Cardiac Transplantation: A Primer for Front-Line Clinicians
(Jaime A. Hernandez-Montfort, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, USA; and David Baran, MD, Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, USA)

Chapter 15. Palliative Care in HF
(Jungyung Ko, NP, Michelle Wansky, NP, and Anna Skold, MD, Kaiser Permanente, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Index


Additional Information

Keywords: HEART FAILURE, HEART TRANSPLANT, LVAD, PALLIATIVE CARE, PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, READMISSIONS, HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION, HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION, SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION, DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE, CARDIOONCOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY, CARDIAC REHAB, CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE, PRIMARY CARE, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

Audience: GENERAL CARDIOLOGISTS, CARDIOLOGY FELLOWS, INTERNAL MEDICINE DOCTORS, RESIDENTS IN TRAINING, PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS, EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIANS, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

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