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Heart Disease Facts & Resources from Health Issues Today
We hope that these pages will help you in your fight against heart disease and its grip on our world today. There are many resources listed here to enlighten you and help you build your health library, please take advantage of them. You can get a free ebook about heart disease by signing up using the form on the left side of this page. God bless and good luck in your battle against heart disease. Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart DiseaseChapter 1: Evolving Concepts in the Pathophysiology of Heart Failure - Arnold Katz Chapter 2: Molecular Basis for Heart Failure - Seigo Izumo & William Pu Chapter 3: Myocyte Abnormalities in the Human Heart Failure - Kenneth B. Margulies & Steven R. Houser Chapter 4: Myocardial Basis for Heart Failure: Role of the Cardiac Interstitium - Sajeevani K. Gunasinghe & Francis G. Spinale Chapter 5: Myocardial Basis for Heart Failure: Role of Cell Death - Piero Anversa, Annarosa Leri & Jan Kajstura Chapter 6: Energetic Basis for Heart Failure - Joanne S. Ingwall Chapter 7: Role of the Peripheral Circulation and Endothelial Cell Dysfunction - Helmut Drexler & Burkhard Hornig II. Mechanisms of Disease Progression in Heart Failure Chapter 8: Heart Failure as a Progressive Disease -Douglas L. Mann Chapter 9: Activation of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Human Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure - Louis J. Dell?Italia & Karim Sabri Chapter 10: Adrenergic Receptor Signaling in Chronic Heart Failure - J. David Port, Jennifer Linseman & Michael R. Bristow Chapter 11: Activation of Inflammatory Mediators in Heart Failure - Douglas L. Mann Chapter 12: Oxidative Stress in Heart Failure - Douglas B. Sawyer & Wilson S. Colucci Chapter 13: Systolic Dysfunction in Heart Failure -David A. Kass Chapter 14: Alterations in Ventricular Function: Diastolic Heart Failure - Michael R. Zile & Catalin F. Baicu Chapter 15: Alterations in Ventricular Structure: Role of Left Ventricular Remodeling - Inder S. Anand & Viorel G. Florea Chapter 16: Alterations in the Sympathetic And Parasympathetic Nervous System in Heart Failure - John S. Floras Chapter 17: Kidney in Heart Failure: The Cardiorenal Axis in the Regulation of Sodium Homeostasis - John C. Burnett, Jr., Lisa Costello & Guido Boerrigter Chapter 18: Alterations in the Skeletal Muscle In Heart Failure - Thierry H. Le Jemtel, Maryjane Farr & Robert Moskowitz Chapter 19: Alterations in Pulmonary and Diaphragmatic Function in Heart Failure - Donna M. Mancini & Chim C. Lang Chapter 20: Myocardial Energy Metabolism In Heart Failure - Heinrich Taegtmeyer, Peter Razeghi & Martin E. Young III. Etiological Basis for Heart Failure Chapter 21: Update of the Epidemiology of Heart Failure - William B. Kanel & RS Vasan Chapter 22: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Atherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease - Mihai Gheorghiade & Robert O. Bonow Chapter 23: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Dilated Cardiomyopathy - Biykem Bozkurt & Douglas L. Mann Chapter 24: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Genetic Cardiomyopathy - Jeffrey A. Towbin & N.E. Bowles Chapter 25: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Hypertension - Thomas D. Giles Chapter 26: Valvular Heart Disease and Heart Failure - Blase A. Carabello Chapter 27: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - A. J. Mariann & Robert Roberts Chapter 28: Heart Failure as a Consequence Of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Dennis M. McNamara & Arthur Feldman Chapter 29: Recent Advances in Viral Myocarditis Leading to Dilated Cardiomyopathy - Peter Liu, Dante Cerullo, Tej Sheth & Mary Anne Opavsky IV. Clinical Ass essment of Heart Failure Chapter 30: Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders In Heart Failure - Sharokh Javaheri Chapter 31: The Prognosis of Heart Failure - James B. Young Chapter 32: Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure - Gary S. Francis & W.H. Wilson Tang Chapter 33: Electrophysiologic Evaluation Of Patients with Heart Failure - William Stevenson Chapter 34: Clinical Trial Design in Heart Failure - John Teerlink V. Therapy for Heart Failure Chapter 35: Development and Implementation of Heart Failure Practice Guidelines - Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr. Chapter 36: Management of Acute Decompensation - Lynne Warner Stevenson Chapter 37: Management of Volume Overload In Heart Failure - Stephen Gottlieb Chapter 38: Antagonism of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Heart Failure - Marvin A. Konstam & Richard D. Patten Chapter 39: Antagonism of the β-Adrenergic Receptors in Heart Failure Patients - Eric J. Eichhorn & Michael R. Bristow Chapter 40: Emerging Strategies in the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure - Anita Deswal, William R. MacLellan, Philip Barger & Douglas L. Mann Chapter 41: Management of Thrombosis In Heart Failure - John G.F. Cleland Chapter 42: Arrhythmias in Heart Failure And Cardiomyopathy - Philip J. Podrid Chapter 43: Cardiac Transplantation - Guillermo Torre-Amione, Michael Koerner, Kevin Lisman & Vinay Thohan Chapter 44: Surgical Treatment of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure - Randall C. Starling, Patrick M. McCarthy & Mohamad H. Yamani Chapter 45: Mechanical Circulatory Support In Patients with Heart Failure - Reynolds M. Delgado, III, O.H. Frazier, Peter Razeghi & Heinrich Taegtmeyer Chapter 46: Exercise in Heart Failure: A Review of Current Applications for Testing And Training - Ileana L. Piña & Jose Ortiz Author: CHEST ...
Heart Disease Additional Information
According to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still the United States number one killer of men and women of all ethnic groups. The statistical update for 2005 utilized the statistics compiled for 2002, or the most recent year that data are available. Cardiovascular diseases include high blood pressure, arrhythmia, valve disease, congestive heart failure and stroke. Coronary heart disease (CHD) or hardening of the arteries is the largest killer of Americans. There were 494.4 thousand co ... ... Author: CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE See entire summary of Heart Disease and Heart Attack Articles |
