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CONTENTS 6 FOREWORD 1 13 FOREWORD 2 15 PREFACE 17 List of Contributors 19 Definition, Epidemiology, Economic Cost and Health Policies 22 INTRODUCTION 23 DEFINITIONS 23 Terminology Related to Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) 24 Terminology Related to the Time-course of Heart Failure (HF) 25 Terminology Related to the Symptomatic Severity of Heart Failure (HF) 26 EPIDEMIOLOGY 27 Lifetime Risk 27 Incidence and Prevalence 28 Mortality 33 Hospitalizations 34 ECONOMIC COST 35 HEALTH POLICIES 37 Prevention of Heart Failure (HF) 37 Early Diagnosis 38 Heart Failure (HF) Clinics 38 Adherence to Heart Failure (HF) Guidelines 39 Patient Selection 40 Nutritional Care 40 Post-operative Discharge Planning 40 Educational Programs 41 Telemonitoring 41 CONCLUDING REMARKS 41 CONFLICT OF INTEREST 42 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 42 REFERENCES 42 Basics of Cardiac Physiology 45 INTRODUCTION 45 CARDIAC MECHANIC FUNCTION 46 Excitation - Contraction Coupling 46 Pathophysiologic Alterations in Heart Failure 47 Myocardial Contractility and Relaxation 49 Hemodynamic Determinants of Physiologic Left Ventricular Function 50 CORONARY BLOOD FLOW 52 CONTRACTION - PERFUSION MATCHING AND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PROCEDU

Author

Editor: Panagiotis Georgoulias

Publisher

Bentham Science Publishers Ltd

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781681083759

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle