Contents
I. Basic Mechanisms of
Heart Failure
Chapter 1:
Evolving Concepts in
the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure - Arnold Katz
Chapter 2:
Molecular Basis for
Heart Failure - Seigo Izumo & William Pu
Chapter 3:
Myocyte Abnormalities
in the Human Heart Failure - Kenneth B. Margulies & Steven R.
Houser
Chapter 4:
Myocardial Basis for
Heart Failure: Role of the Cardiac Interstitium - Sajeevani K.
Gunasinghe & Francis G. Spinale
Chapter 5:
Myocardial Basis for
Heart Failure: Role of Cell Death - Piero Anversa, Annarosa Leri &
Jan Kajstura
Chapter 6:
Energetic Basis for
Heart Failure - Joanne S. Ingwall
Chapter 7:
Role of the Peripheral
Circulation and Endothelial Cell Dysfunction - Helmut Drexler &
Burkhard Hornig
II. Mechanisms of
Disease Progression in Heart Failure
Chapter 8: Heart
Failure as a Progressive Disease -Douglas L. Mann
Chapter 9: Activation
of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Human Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart
Failure - Louis J. Dell'Italia & Karim Sabri
Chapter 10: Adrenergic
Receptor Signaling in Chronic Heart Failure - J. David Port, Jennifer
Linseman & Michael R. Bristow
Chapter 11: Activation
of Inflammatory Mediators in Heart Failure - Douglas L. Mann
Chapter 12: Oxidative
Stress in Heart Failure - Douglas B. Sawyer & Wilson S. Colucci
Chapter 13: Systolic
Dysfunction in Heart Failure -David A. Kass
Chapter 14:
Alterations in Ventricular Function: Diastolic Heart Failure - Michael
R. Zile & Catalin F. Baicu
Chapter 15:
Alterations in Ventricular Structure: Role of Left Ventricular
Remodeling - Inder S. Anand & Viorel G. Florea
Chapter 16:
Alterations in the Sympathetic And Parasympathetic Nervous System in
Heart Failure - John
S. Floras
Chapter 17: Kidney in
Heart Failure: The Cardiorenal Axis in the Regulation of Sodium
Homeostasis - John C. Burnett, Jr., Lisa Costello & Guido
Boerrigter
Chapter 18:
Alterations in the Skeletal Muscle In Heart Failure - Thierry H. Le
Jemtel, Maryjane Farr & Robert Moskowitz
Chapter 19:
Alterations in Pulmonary and Diaphragmatic Function in Heart Failure -
Donna M. Mancini & Chim C. Lang
Chapter 20: Myocardial
Energy Metabolism In Heart Failure - Heinrich Taegtmeyer, Peter
Razeghi & Martin E. Young
III. Etiological Basis
for Heart Failure
Chapter 21: Update of
the Epidemiology of Heart Failure - William B. Kanel & RS Vasan
Chapter 22: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease -
Mihai Gheorghiade & Robert O. Bonow
Chapter 23: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Dilated Cardiomyopathy - Biykem Bozkurt
& Douglas L. Mann
Chapter 24: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Genetic Cardiomyopathy - Jeffrey A. Towbin
& N.E. Bowles
Chapter 25: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Hypertension - Thomas D. Giles
Chapter 26: Valvular
Heart Disease and Heart Failure - Blase A. Carabello
Chapter 27: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - A. J.
Mariann & Robert Roberts
Chapter 28: Heart
Failure as a Consequence Of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Dennis M.
McNamara & Arthur Feldman
Chapter 29: Recent
Advances in Viral Myocarditis Leading to Dilated Cardiomyopathy -
Peter Liu, Dante Cerullo, Tej Sheth & Mary Anne Opavsky
IV. Clinical
Assessment of Heart Failure
Chapter 30: Sleep-Related
Breathing Disorders In Heart Failure - Sharokh Javaheri
Chapter 31: The
Prognosis of Heart Failure - James B. Young
Chapter 32: Clinical
Evaluation of Heart Failure - Gary S. Francis & W.H. Wilson Tang
Chapter 33:
Electrophysiologic Evaluation Of Patients with Heart Failure - William
Stevenson
Chapter 34: Clinical
Trial Design in Heart Failure - John Teerlink
V. Therapy for Heart
Failure
Chapter 35:
Development and Implementation of Heart Failure Practice Guidelines -
Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr.
Chapter 36: Management
of Acute Decompensation - Lynne Warner Stevenson
Chapter 37: Management
of Volume Overload In Heart Failure - Stephen Gottlieb
Chapter 38: Antagonism
of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Heart Failure - Marvin A. Konstam
& Richard D. Patten
Chapter 39: Antagonism
of the -Adrenergic Receptors in Heart Failure Patients - Eric J.
Eichhorn & Michael R. Bristow
Chapter 40: Emerging
Strategies in the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure - Anita Deswal,
William R. MacLellan, Philip Barger & Douglas L. Mann
Chapter 41: Management
of Thrombosis In Heart Failure - John G.F. Cleland
Chapter 42:
Arrhythmias in Heart Failure And Cardiomyopathy - Philip J. Podrid
Chapter 43: Cardiac
Transplantation - Guillermo Torre-Amione, Michael Koerner, Kevin
Lisman & Vinay Thohan
Chapter 44: Surgical
Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure - Randall C. Starling,
Patrick M. McCarthy & Mohamad H. Yamani
Chapter 45: Mechanical
Circulatory Support In Patients with Heart Failure - Reynolds M.
Delgado, III, O.H. Frazier, Peter Razeghi & Heinrich Taegtmeyer
Chapter 46: Exercise
in Heart Failure: A Review of Current Applications for Testing And
Training - Ileana L. Piña & Jose Ortiz
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