Heart Failure

Molecular Changes in Heart Failure.- Hemodynamics and Heart Failure.- Imaging and Heart Failure.- Acute and Chronic Right Ventricular Failure.- Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System.- Inhibition of the Sympathetic Nervous System.- Management of the Patient with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Classification, Epidemiology and Pathophysiology.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Presentation, Physical Exam, and Laboratory Evaluation.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure -Treatment Guidelines.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Treatment - Specific Therapies.- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure - Treatment with Guideline Determined Medical Therapy and Discharge Planning.- Cardiac-Oncology: Management of the Patient with Heart Failure after Chemotherapy.- Atrial Arrhythmias and Heart Failure.- Ventricular Arrhythmias and Heart Failure.- Cardiac Defibrillators and Heart Failure.- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure.- Revascularization and Heart Failure.- Valve Repair and Replacement in Congestive Heart FailurePatient Selection for Cardiac Transplantation.- Pathophysiology of the Alloimmune Response and Immunosuppression.- Antibody-Mediated Rejection.- Infections After Cardiac Transplantation.- Post-Transplant Complications-Hypertension, Renal Dysfunction, Diabetes Mellitus, Malignancy, Arrhythmias, Osteoporosis, Sexual Dysfunction.- Patient Selection.- Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support.- Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Medical Management of the Patient with Chronic Mechanical Circulatory Support.- The Total Artificial Heart.- Physiology of Stem Cells.- Stem Cell Therapy in Heart Failure.- Origins of Quality Metrics.- Exercise and Patients with Heart Failure.- Heart Failure Management and

Howard Eisen, Chief of the Division of Cardiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA