Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy

Preface: why do we need this book?.- Noncompaction cardiomyopathy, a novel clinical entity (historical perspective).- Clinical features of noncompaction cardiomyopathy.- Imaging and diagnostic uncertainties of noncompaction cardiomyopathy.- Neuromuscular diseases and noncompaction cardiomyopathy.- Sudden cardiac death, prevention and treatment with implantable cardiac defibrillators.- Prevalence and prevention of thromboembolic events in noncompaction cardiomyopathy.- Noncompaction cardiomyopathy in childhood.-  Noncompaction look-a-likes: the athletes, the hypertensives and the blacks.- Familial screening and cardio-genetics of noncompaction cardiomyopathy.- Prognosis and treatment of noncompaction cardiomyopath.- Future perspectives.  

Dr. Kadir Caliskan is graduated as a Medical Doctor in 1994 at the University of Amsterdam. In 1999, he started his training in Cardiology. Since 2005, he works as heart failure / transplant / VAD cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Unit Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support.  In 2012, he completed his PhD thesis, "Clinical Features of Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy". Since 2012, he is member of Dutch Thoracic Organ Transplant Advisory Board. In the same year, he joined the Dutch Mechanical Circulatory Support Working Group. In 2013, he was appointed as head of the Unit Heart Failure, Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support. In 2014, he was appointed as the Dutch representative in to EThAC, the Eurotransplant Thoracic Advisory Committee. In 2015, he entered the Board of EUROMACS, the European Registry of Mechanical Circulatory. In 2017, he was elected to the Scientific Board of the International Heart-Lung Transplantation Registryfor Mechanical Assisted Circulatory Support. 

Dr. Osama I. Soliman, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC works as assistant professor of cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is the director of structural heart imaging at Cardialysis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dr Soliman is a consultant cardiologist specialised in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and he is a principal investigator of several clinical trials. Dr Soliman has been graduated in 1996 Summa Cum Laude from the Medical School of Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He completed eight years of training in internal medicine and cardiology at Al-Azhar University Hospitals in Cairo, Egypt. In 2000, he was awarded the degree of Master of Science Cum Laude based on a dissertation entitled "Intravascular ultrasound versus quantitative coronary angiography for the assessment of immediate results of coronary artery stenting". In 2005, he joined the Thoraxcenter,