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     This is a highly visual, case-based approach that covers the spectrum of the clinical presentation of heart failure. Each chapter revolves around one or more cases that best represent the diagnosis and treatment of a specific type of heart failure. The book encompasses newly diagnosed cases of heart failure, optimizing therapy for patients with known heart failure, heart failure associated with a variety of cardiac diseases, and heart failure in patients with systemic diseases. Authors also address the rapidly expanding field of familial-based cardiomyopathies and the difficult task of determining prognosis.

The newly diagnosed cases of heart failure include non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy, post-myocardial infarction heart failure, tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation as a cause of heart failure, and manifestations of diastolic dysfunction causing heart failure. The section on optimizing therapy for patients with chronic heart failure encompasses treatment for an initially stabilized patient who begins to decline and presents with an acute exacerbation; treating patients with devices such as defibrillators, resynchronization pacemaker systems, or both; and actions that can be taken when, despite the full gamut of treatment, a patient is still symptomatic or gradually declining. Included is a discussion of hemodynamic optimization and advanced therapy for end-stage failure.

Additionally, the book covers in depth procedures for determining prognosis and evaluating familial disease; and includes descriptions of medications commonly used for heart failure. Chapters are consistently formatted to include an overview of underlying pathophysiology, presentation of the representative "teaching" case, and a discussion of optimal management including assessment of current evidence and guidelines. The book also features video loops of select procedures, available online.

KEY FEATURES:

• Over thirty expert authors offer a practical, visual approach to common but complex management problems in heart failure

• Demonstrates real-world clinical management decisions and applications of current guidelines and evidence through case presentations

• Discusses assessment and treatment of newly diagnosed and chronic cases of heart failure

• Addresses heart failure associated with the gamut of cardiac diseases and in patients with systemic diseases

• Provides links to video loops of select procedures         

Table of Contents:

     PART I: NEWLY DIAGNOSED HEART FAILURE

1. Initial Presentation of Heart Failure: The Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy 3

Peter S. Rahko

2. Patient With Heart Failure Following a Large Myocardial Infarction 32

Jane E. Wilcox and William G. Cotts

3. Tako-Tsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy 51

Scott W. Sharkey

4. Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiomyopathy With Heart Failure 58

Anjali Vaidya and Mariell Jessup

5. Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF): A Common Sense Approach 69

Vinay Thohan, Ebere Chuckwu, Brandon Drafts, and Manrique Alvarez

PART II: OPTIMIZING THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE

6. Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in the Previously Stable Heart Failure Patient: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Treatment 99

Elaine Winkel

7. Optimizing Heart Failure Management in Idiopathic Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Complicated by Ventricular Arrhythmia 104

Roy M. John and William G. Stevenson

8. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure 115

Adam P. Pleister and William T. Abraham

9. Hemodynamic Optimization in the Patient With Refractory Systolic Heart Failure 130

Nancy K. Sweitzer

PART III: HEART FAILURE WITH MULTIPLE TREATMENT ISSUES

10. Evaluation and Management of the Heart Transplant Candidate 139

Mauricio Velez and Maryl R. Johnson

11. Low Gradient Aortic Stenosis and Significant Left Ventricular Dysfunction 152

Todd F. Dardas and Catherine M. Otto

12. Left Ventricular Dysfunction With Mitral Regurgitation 162

Amanda R. Vest and William J. Stewart

13. Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 180

Rachel Steckelberg and Paul Sorajja

PART IV: HEART FAILURE ASSOCIATED WITH OTHER SYSTEMIC DISEASE

14. Heart Failure in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 195

Salman Allana and Walter Kao

15. Cardiotoxicity of Anticancer Treatment 201

Steven M. Ewer and Kari B. Wisinski

16. Cardiac Amyloidosis 211

Ryan Kipp and Peter S. Rahko

17. Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Associated Renal Failure: The Cardiorenal Syndrome 229

David Murray

PART V: SPECIAL TOPICS IN HEART FAILURE

18. Evaluation and Workup of a Patient With Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy 243

Ana Morales and Ray E. Hershberger

19. The Role of Risk Modeling in Heart Failure 254

Eric S. Ketchum and Wayne C. Levy

Index 263