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This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease’s pathophysiology, its diagnostic work up as well as the prognostic stratification, and illustrates the role of genetics and gene-environment interaction. The second part presents current and future treatment options, highlighting the importance of long-term and individualized treatments and follow-up. Furthermore, it discusses open issues, such as the apparent healing phenomenon, the early prognosis of arrhythmic events or the use of genetic testing in clinical practice. Offering a multidisciplinary approach for optimizing the clinical management of DCM, this book is an invaluable aid not only for the clinical cardiologists, but for all physicians involved in the care of this challenging disease.
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heart muscle disease characterized by left ventricular or biventricular dilation and systolic dysfunction in the absence of either pressure or volume overload or coronary artery disease sufficient enough to explain the dysfunction. DCM is currently a relatively benign disease, with concrete treatment strategies and solid therapeutic regimens. However, clinical management of DCM patients is still one of the most challenging scenarios even for tertiary referral centers. DCM patients are usually young (between their 30s and 50s), still of working age with usually a solid economic and social background. Several pitfalls may be present during diagnostic workup an...
In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editors Drs. Giuseppe Limongelli, Michele Emdin, Marco Merlo, and Claudio Rapezzi bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Amyloid Cardiomyopathies: Clinical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Aspects. Top experts in the field discuss the role of clinical use of biomarkers in cardiac amyloidosis; cardiac magnetic resonance in the management of cardiac amyloidosis; bone scintigraphy: strength points and pitfalls in the diagnosis of ATTR-cardiac amyloidosis; PET and cardiac amyloidosis; endomyocardial biopsy in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis; and much more. - Contains 17 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the changing epidemiolog...
In the last decade, genetics has been emerging as a primary issue in the diagnosis and management of cardiomyopathies. This book is intended to be a state-of-the-art monograph on these diseases, describing their genetic causes, defining the molecular basis and presenting extensive descriptions of genotype–phenotype correlations. Other chapters are focused on the role of clinical observation, on ECG and echocardiography. With its highlight on the most recent discoveries in the field of molecular genetics as well as on the correct clinical approach to patients with heart muscle disease, the book is aimed at physicians and clinical cardiologists with a particular interest in myocardial diseases and in their genetic causes.
This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease's pathophysiology, its diagnostic work up as well as the prognostic stratification, and illustrates the role of genetics and gene-environment interaction. The second part presents current and future treatment options, highlighting the importance of long-term and individualized treatments and follow-up. Furthermore, it discusses open issues, such as the apparent healing phenomenon, the early prognosis of arrhythmic events or the use of genetic testing in clinical practice. Offering a multidisciplinary approach for optimizing the clinical management of DCM, this book is an invaluable aid not only for the clinical cardiologists, but for all physicians involved in the care of this challenging disease. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, Guest Editors Giuseppe Limongelli and Eduardo Bossone bring their considerable expertise to the topic of rare cardiovascular diseases. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as coronary artery dissection, genetics in congenital heart disease, HCM in Rasopathies, and more. - Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. - Contains 17 relevant, practice-oriented topics including The influence of genotype on the phenotype, clinical course, and risk of adverse events in children with Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Unravelling the genetic background in heritable and non-heritable BAV: a long roadmap; The risk of sudden unexpected cardiac death in children: epidemiology, clinical causes, and prevention; The renal involvement in patients with storage and infiltrative cardiomyopathies; and more.
This "patient-oriented" book was written as a meeting ground for practicing clinicians, allied health professionals, and clinical researchers to provide a practical guide for the contemporary assessment and management of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy. It revolves around broad patient scenarios to elegantly (or expertly) guide diagnostic and management strategies. Combining the talents of over one-hundred experts in the field, the book also endeavors to challenge the reader with areas of current controversies and opportunities for clinical investigation with the goals of both orienting clinicians and stimulating their research passions. Key Features Provides practical guidance based on real-life heart failure scenarios Discusses both acute and chronic care patient-oriented scenarios Covers up-to-date and novel concepts in heart failure Features the perspectives of current debates and controversies in heart failure Highlights the opportunities for research in this field
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a particular phenotype of non-ischemic systolic heart failure, frequently recognizing a genetic background and affecting relatively young patients with few comorbidities. Nowadays, long-term survival of DCM patients has been markedly improved due to an early diagnosis and uninterrupted and tailored follow-up under constant optimal medical and non-pharmacological evidence-based treatments. Nevertheless, DCM is still one of the most common causes of heart transplantation in the western world. Clinical management requires an integrated and systematic use of diagnostic tools and a deeper investigation of the basic mechanisms underlying the disease. However, severa...
This book describes the role of basic and advanced imaging techniques in the diagnosis of different types of cardiomyopathy, including dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and infiltrative/storage cardiomyopathies. While the main focus is on echocardiography, the applications of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography are also described. Throughout, a clinically oriented approach is employed: detailed attention is paid to differential diagnosis and numerous high-quality images depict the main features of the various types of cardiomyopathy. Consideration is also given to the genetics of cardiomyopathies, with analysis of genotype-phenotype relationships. Finally, the potential value of imaging in prognostic assessment and in guiding treatment is described.
This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the use of regenerative medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It provides a much-needed review of the rapid development and evolution of bio-fabrication techniques to engineer cardiovascular tissues as well as their use in clinical settings. The book incorporates recent advances in the biology, biomaterial design, and manufacturing of bioengineered cardiovascular tissue with their clinical applications to bridge the basic sciences to current and future cardiovascular treatment. The book begins with an examination of state-of-the-art cellular, biomaterial, and macromolecular technologies for the repair and regeneration of...