Integrative Cardiology - A New Therapeutic Vision

This book is a detailed guide to a new integrative approach to the prevention and treatment of various cardiac disorders and risk factors, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. This approach combines various strategies, including metabolic cardiology, low-dose medicine, exercise programs, stress management programs, evaluation for inherited risk factors, and various other healing modalities. Metabolic cardiology focuses on the prevention, management, and treatment of cardiovascular disease at the cellular level through biochemical interventions with nutritional supplements that can promote energy production in the heart. Low-dose medicine, on the other hand, interprets pathological phenomena as an imbalance in intercellular signaling that may be corrected through the administration of low physiological doses of messenger molecules. Therapies outside of mainstream medicine may also be deployed in integrative cardiology,for example acupuncture, herbal medicine, and homeopathy. Integrative Cardiology will be of interest to all practitioners wishing to learn about an approach that incorporates the incredible advances in medication and technology with a focus on nutrition, lifestyle, and mind-body influences.

List of contents

Part I The basis of integration: Herbal Medicine.- Homeopathy and cardiovascular disease.- Low Dose therapy for the treatment of Low Grade Inflammation.- Acupunture and cardiology.- Metabolic Cardiology.- Medicinal Mushrooms.- Microbiome and cardiac health.- Endocrine system and cardiovascular disease.- Cardiovascular Aging.- Nutrition and cardiac health.- PsicoNeuroEndocrinImmunology prospective.- Meditation and stress management in cardiology.- Ozone Therapy in cardiovascular disease.- Part II Integrated approach to Cardiovascular Disease: Integrated approach to dyslipidemia.- Integrated approach to Hypertension.- Integrated approach to Coronary Artery Disease.- Integrated approach to Heart Failure.- Integrated approach to Arrhythmias.- Integrated approach to oncologic supportive medicine.- Heart and Skin (the paradigm of cytokines-mediated cardiovascular metabolic disease in psoriasis).

About the author

Massimo Fioranelli is Associate Professor of Physiology at the Marconi University in Rome, and Director of "Centro Cuore" at the "Mater Dei" Clinic in Rome since 2006. After graduating in Medicine in 1984 and specializing in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in 1993, he worked at the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, directed by Prof. Jacob Shani, and has taught at the Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India, between 2010 and 2014. He is Editor in chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Microinflammation and  Journal of Integrative Cardiology. He edited various books with Springer, targeting both academic, high-level professionals in Cardiology and Physiology, and readers of popular science. Currently his main interests focus on low dose medicine, topic often addressed during various symposia held annually about integrative medicine.

Summary

This book is a detailed guide to a new integrative approach to the prevention and treatment of various cardiac disorders and risk factors, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. This approach combines various strategies, including metabolic cardiology, low-dose medicine, exercise programs, stress management programs, evaluation for inherited risk factors, and various other healing modalities. Metabolic cardiology focuses on the prevention, management, and treatment of cardiovascular disease at the cellular level through biochemical interventions with nutritional supplements that can promote energy production in the heart. Low-dose medicine, on the other hand, interprets pathological phenomena as an imbalance in intercellular signaling that may be corrected through the administration of low physiological doses of messenger molecules. Therapies outside of mainstream medicine may also be deployed in integrative cardiology,for example acupuncture, herbal medicine, and homeopathy. Integrative Cardiology will be of interest to all practitioners wishing to learn about an approach that incorporates the incredible advances in medication and technology with a focus on nutrition, lifestyle, and mind–body influences.

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“The book is designed to provide additional tools for physicians to use in their therapeutic intervention strategies in often complex pathological situations in cardiovascular disease. … The book is well written, easy to read, and uses numerous color graphs, figures, and tables to supplement the text. This tool for practicing clinicians provides a complete source of information about the use of complementary therapies in treating the whole patient with cardiovascular disease.” (Joseph A. Randy Englert III, Doody’s Book Reviews, June, 2017) 

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"The book is designed to provide additional tools for physicians to use in their therapeutic intervention strategies in often complex pathological situations in cardiovascular disease. ... The book is well written, easy to read, and uses numerous color graphs, figures, and tables to supplement the text. This tool for practicing clinicians provides a complete source of information about the use of complementary therapies in treating the whole patient with cardiovascular disease." (Joseph A. Randy Englert III, Doody's Book Reviews, June, 2017)

Product details

• Assisted by: Massim Fioranelli (Editor), Massimo Fioranelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319400082
• ISBN: 978-3-31-940008-2
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 16 mm x 261 mm
• Weight: 818 g
• Illustrations: XII, 276 p. 63 illus., 59 illus. in color.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine