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This text serves as a convenient one-stop resource on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases in context of advanced heart failure and presence of ventricular assist devices. Advances in managing heart failure, evidence-based practices and therapies are covered, along with the management of this unique and complex subset of patients. The book also provides insights into combined heart and kidney transplantation. Authored by leaders in nephrology, cardiology and transplantation, this book fills a critical knowledge gap in understanding and treating patients with acute or chronic dysfunction of the heart and kidneys and how one induces dysfunction in the other organ.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Management of Advanced Heart Failure: An Overview.- Chapter 2 Understanding Cardiovascular Hemodynamics.- Chapter 3 Cardiorenal Syndromes.- Chapter 4 Diuretics in Heart Failure.- Chapter 5 Hyponatremia in Heart Failure and Ventricular Assist Device Patients.- Chapter 6 Overview of Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Technical and Clinical Perspectives.- Chapter 7 Selection for Ventricular Assist Device Placement in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.- Chapter 8 Effects of Ventricular Assist Device Therapies on Renal Function.- Chapter 9 Management of Hypertension after Ventricular Assist Device Implant.- Chapter 10 Right Ventricular Failure Post Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation.- Chapter 11 Renal Replacement Therapies in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices.- Chapter 12 Patient selection for combined heart and kidney transplantation.- Chapter 13 Outcomes with combined heart kidney transplantation.
About the author
Chaitanya R. Desai, MD
Director, Nephrology
Solid Organ Transplantation and Advanced Heart Failure Therapies
Kidney, Heart, Lung transplant and HF/VAD programs
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Illinois
William G. Cotts, MD, FACC, FACP, FAH
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois
Clinical Director, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Assistance
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Il
Edgar V. Lerma, MD, FACP, FASN, FAHA, FASH, FNLA, FNKF, FASDIN, FPSN (Hon)*
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Section of Nephrology
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Associates in Nephrology, SC
Chicago, IL
Michael R. Rudnick, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Philadelphia PA
Summary
This text serves as a convenient one-stop resource on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases in context of advanced heart failure and presence of ventricular assist devices. Advances in managing heart failure, evidence-based practices and therapies are covered, along with the management of this unique and complex subset of patients. The book also provides insights into combined heart and kidney transplantation. Authored by leaders in nephrology, cardiology and transplantation, this book fills a critical knowledge gap in understanding and treating patients with acute or chronic dysfunction of the heart and kidneys and how one induces dysfunction in the other organ.
