Translational Approach to Heart Failure

Part I. Heart Failure: Back to Basics

1. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure: Back to Basics
Gilles W. Keulenaer, Vincent Segers, Dirk L. Brutsaert

2. Heart Failure with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Basic Principles and Clinical Diagnostics
Otto A. Smiseth, Espen W. Remme, Anders Opdahl, Svend Aakhus, Helge Skulstad

3. Cardiorenal Syndrome Revisited
Matthias Dupont, Wilfried Mullens, W. H. Wilson Tang

4. Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report
Ivan Stankovic, Jens-Uwe Voigt

5. Back to Earth: “Common Sense” in the Management of Heart Failure
Marc Goethals

Part II. Conduction Abnormalities and Rhythm Disturbances in Heart Failure

6. Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Rate Versus Rhythm Control
Mackram F. Eleid, Yong-Mei Cha, Win-Kuang Shen

7. Repetitive ICD Shocks and Incessant VTs in Heart Failure: What to Do?
Martin Eisenberger, Tom Potter, Peter Geelen

8. Dyssynchronous Heart Failure: From Bench to Bedside
Caroline J. M. Deursen, Lars B. Middendorp, Frits W. Prinzen

9. Telemonitoring and Sensor Technologies in Chronic Heart Failure
Matthias Dupont, Wilfried Mullens, W. H. Wilson Tang

Part III. Functional Mitral Regurgitation in Heart Failure

10. Functional Mitral Regurgitation: The Surgeons’ Perspective
Jerry Braun, Robert J. M. Klautz

11. Percutaneous Approaches to Treat Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Current State of Affairs and Future Perspectives
David Messika-Zeitoun

12. Tailored Approach to Functional Mitral Regurgitation
Martin Penicka, Frank Praet

13. Revascularization and Left Ventricular Reconstruction in a Patient with Ischemic Heart Failure: to STICH or not to STICH?
Marisa Donato

Part IV. When Every Therapy Fails

14. Cardiac Arrest and Refractory Cardiogenic Shock
Koen Decker

15. Left Ventricular Assist Devices: From Bridge to Transplant to Destination Therapy
Lars H. Lund

16. Novel Device-Based Strategies in Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure
Gabor Toth, Marc Vanderheyden, Jozef Bartunek

17. Total Artificial Heart
Christof Stamm, Roland Hetzer

18. Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease
Atta Behfar, Jozef Bartunek, Andre Terzic

19. Immunosuppressive Management of the Heart Transplant Recipient
Sofie Verstreken

Keywords: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology