This book will provide the clinician with essential insights into the epidemiology and aetiology of diastolic heart failure, and enable them to understand how the condition can be diagnosed. Furthermore, the book will provide insights in cardiac function that are needed to perform and interpret the diagnostic tests, and to provide some guides to treatment choices. There is no product currently available that will provide the reader with a comprehensive evaluationof diastolic function INDICE: From the contents Introduction.- Molecular mechanisms of diastolicdysfunction.- Pathophysiological aspects of myocardial relaxation and end-diastolic stiffness of cardiac ventricles.- Ventricular interactions via the septum and pericardium.- The role of the left atrium.- The role of neurohormones and peripheral vasculature.- Filling velocities as markers of diastolic function.- Myocardial velocities as markers of diastolic function.- Diastolic versus systolic heart failure.- Invasive evaluation of diastolic left ventricular dysfunction.- Echocardiographic assessment of diastolic function and diagnosis ofdiastolic heart failure.- Magnetic resonance imaging.- Natriuretic peptides in diagnosis of diastolic heart failure.- Noninvasive estimation of left ventricular filling pressures.- Epidemiology of Diastolic Heart Failure.- Prognosis in Diastolic Heart Failure.- Treatment of Diastolic Heart Failure.- Coronary artery disease and diastolic left ventricular dysfunction.
- ISBN: 978-1-84628-890-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés