(eBook) Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation by Daniel J. Garry

This is the PDF eBook version for Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation – Clinical, Pathology, Imaging and Molecular Profiles by Daniel J. Garry, Robert F. Wilson, Zeev Vlodaver

Table of Contents

A Historical Overview of Cardiovascular Medicine and Heart Failure.- Physiology of the Normal and Failing Heart.- Molecular Biology of the Normal and Failing Heart.- Pathology of Ischemic Heart Disease.- The Pathology of Cardiomyopathies.- Epidemiology of Heart Failure.- Acute Heart Failure.- Ischemic Cardiomyopathy.- Valvular Cardiomyopathy.- Molecular Mechanism of Sarcomeric Cardiomyopathies.- Right Heart Failure.- Neuromuscular Cardiomyopathies.- Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF).- Myocardial Viability and Imaging in the Failing Heart.- Cardiorenal Syndrome and Heart Failure.- Neurohormonal Activation and the Management of Heart Failure.- Remodeling in the Development of Chronic Systolic Heart Failure: Implication for Treatment.- Heart Failure Prevention.- Arrhythmias in Cardiomyopathy.- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.- Advanced Therapies: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Heart Failure.- Ventricular Assist Devices for Advanced Heart Failure.- Regenerative Mechanisms of the Adult Injured and Failing Heart.- Cell therapy and heart failure.- History of Cardiac Transplantation: Research, Discoveries and Pioneers.- Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: A Surgical Perspective.- Cardiac Transplantation: Immunobiology and Immunotherapy.- Cardiac Transplantation Pathology.- Management of the Post-transplant Cardiac Patient.- Adult Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Early Complications.- Late Complications Following Heart Transplantation.- Heart Transplantation and Antibody-Mediated Rejection.- Heart and Heart-lung Transplantation in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.- Cardiac Xenotransplantation.