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Emerging Comorbidities in Heart Failure, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 40-2 - April 26, 2022
- Editors: Antonio Cittadini, Hector Ventura
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 1 6 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 1 6 2 - 2
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Thyroid Abnormalities in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Thyroid disease
- Thyroid hormone metabolism
- Effect of T3 on the cardiac myocyte
- T3 effects on cardiovascular hemodynamics
- Thyroid hormone effects on lipid metabolism
- Anabolic Deficiencies in Heart Failure: Ready for Prime Time?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Insulin resistance and chronic heart failure
- Growth hormone/insulinlike growth factor-1 deficiency in chronic heart failure
- Chronic heart failure and abnormal testosterone activity
- Role of thyroid hormones in chronic heart failure
- Summary
- The Gut Axis Involvement in Heart Failure: Focus on Trimethylamine N-oxide
- Key points
- Introduction
- Role of trimethylamine N-oxide in the pathophysiology of heart failure
- Trimethylamine N-oxide in heart failure
- Clinical context and future perspectives
- Summary
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Heart Failure: A Breathless Conspiracy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: a diagnostic challenge
- How common are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure?
- Prevalence and prognostic relevance of heart failure in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Prevalence and prognostic relevance of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in people with heart failure
- Therapeutic concerns
- Summary
- Sleep Breathing Disorders in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Epidemiology and definitions
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Summary
- When Pulmonary Hypertension Complicates Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition and classification of pulmonary hypertension in chronic left-sided heart failure
- Pathomechanisms and their clinical meaning in pulmonary hypertension-left-sided chronic heart failure
- Right heart catheterization for differential diagnosis
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension–targeted drugs in pulmonary hypertension owing to left-sided heart failure
- Clinical management of right heart failure in chronic left heart failure
- Summary and future perspectives
- Cardiac Cachexia Revisited: The Role of Wasting in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prevalence and prognosis of cardiac cachexia
- Changes of body composition in cardiac cachexia
- Definition of cardiac cachexia
- Differential diagnosis of involuntary weight loss
- Characteristics of cardiac function in patients with cachexia
- Pathophysiology of cardiac cachexia
- Intracellular pathways of muscle and fat wasting in heart failure
- Extracellular mechanisms of cardiac cachexia
- Treatment options
- The Impact of Obesity in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Body mass index and heart failure risk
- Physical inactivity, low cardiorespiratory fitness, and heart failure risk
- Obesity paradox and heart failure
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and the obesity paradox
- The role of body composition in obesity and heart failure
- Exercise and dietary interventions in obesity and heart failure
- Summary
- The Cardiorenal Syndrome in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiologic and prognostic considerations
- Mechanisms of fluid accumulation in heart failure and the cardiorenal syndrome
- Pathophysiologic events in the kidney in the setting of heart failure
- Contributions of the abdominal circulation to the cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure
- Methods for the assessment of fluid volume in the cardiorenal syndrome occurring in heart failure
- Refractoriness to diuretics in heart failure
- Extracorporeal ultrafiltration
- Novel strategies to overcome diuretic resistance
- Summary
- Hypertension and Heart Failure: Prevention, Targets, and Treatment
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- From hypertension to heart failure
- Blood pressure targets
- Pharmacotherapy
- Lifestyle modifications
- Summary
- Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure: Focus on Antithrombotic Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Search strategy
- Atrial fibrillation and heart failure: pathophysiology
- Subtypes of atrial fibrillation and heart failure
- Antithrombotic management
- Summary
- Sex and Gender-Related Issues in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology of heart failure: a global and sex-related burden
- Comorbidities and heart failure sex-related differences
- Sex differences in clinical presentation, diagnosis, and outcomes
- Sex differences in management: clinical trials and pharmacologic therapy
- Gender-related factors and impact on heart failure
- Summary
- Psychological Disorders in Heart Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prevalence and recognition
- Treatment
- Practice considerations
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 40-2
- Published: April 26, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323961615
- eBook ISBN: 9780323961622
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Antonio Cittadini
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Federico II UniversityHV
Hector Ventura
Affiliations and expertise
Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplantation,Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner , Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine,