Clinical Heart Failure Scenarios-1판

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Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Stage A Heart Failure: Modern Strategies for an Effective Prevention
Key points
Introduction
Stage A patient’s characteristics
Stage A patient’s detection
Nutrition
Lifestyle modifications
Dyslipidemias
Diabetes mellitus
Hypertension
Summary
Clinics care points
Asymptomatic Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Is There a Role for Screening in General Population?
Key points
Introduction
Conventional echocardiography in asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction
Tissue Doppler imaging
Myocardial strain and myocardial work
Natriuretic peptides
Summary
Clinics care points
Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease–Related Heart Failure: The Role of Computed Tomography Scan
Key points
Introduction
Coronary evaluation
Accuracy and prognostic value
Guidelines
Anemia and Management of Heart Failure Patients
Key points
Introduction
Diagnosis and epidemiology
Etiology and pathophysiology of anemia in patients with heart failure
Pathophysiological consequences of anemia
Anemia and clinical outcomes
Management of anemia in patients with heart failure
Summary
Clinics care points
Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Heart Failure
Key points
Introduction
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging protocol in heart failure
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and heart failure with midrange ejection fraction
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Future perspectives
Summary
Clinics care points
Biomarkers in Heart Failure: Clinical Insights
Key points
Introduction
Heart Failure Screening in the Community
Diagnosis
Risk Stratification
Phenotyping
Management and Tailored Treatment
Summary
Disclosure statement
Clinics care points
Noninvasive Assessment of Ventricular-Arterial Coupling in Heart Failure
Key points
Introduction
The concept of ventricular-arterial coupling
Methods of measurement
Use of ventricular-arterial coupling in clinical practice
Conclusion
Summary
Novelties in Therapy of Chronic Heart Failure
Key points
Introduction
Current treatments and emerging evidences
New therapeutic perspectives from the treatment of comorbidities
Future directions
Summary
Clinics care points
Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs in Heart Failure Patients
Key points
Introduction
Effects of exercise training
Indications for referral to an exercise training program
Exercise training programs
Special populations
Setting
Adherence
Summary
Clinics care points
Role of Cardiac Rehabilitation After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Key points
Introduction
Discussion
Clinics care points
Summary
Role of New Technologies in Supporting the Treatment of Complex Patients
Key points
Problem dimension
Potential of telemedicine in the advanced rehabilitation setting of heart failure
Telemedicine: technological and organizational aspects
Legal and regulatory aspects
Future perspectives
Clinics care points
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure: What is New?
Background
Indications to cardiac resynchronization therapy
Indications to cardiac resynchronization therapy in special populations
Remote monitoring in cardiac resynchronization therapy
The problem of “non-responders” to cardiac resynchronization therapy
Summary
Author contributions
Combined Effect of Mediterranean Diet and Aerobic Exercise on Weight Loss and Clinical Status in Obese
Symptomatic Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Key points
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Study limitations
Summary
Clinics care points
Contributors
Funding
Competing interests