Pacing to Support the Failing Heart

This new title in the American Heart Association Clinical Series offers an up-to-date overview of the causes and damage related to dyssynchronopathy - a new pathophysiological entity related to spontaneous or pacing-induced mechanical abnormalities which causes heart failure. This is a critical and evolving area in cardiology, and this new book covers the state of the art issues, including: management of heart failure selection of the heart failure patient for device implantation device selection programming and troubleshooting non-invasive imaging of the heart failure patient. Pacing to Support the Failing Heart presents the most recent diagnostic non-invasive tools and offers multiple figures, tables, algorithms, summaries of clinical trials and clinically important information for all cardiologists, whilst providing simple, practice-oriented therapeutic proposals for heart failure patients.

Contributors. Preface. Foreword. 1. Integrated Heart Failure Management: Marco Metra, Valerio Zacà, Savina Nodari and Livio Dei Cas. 2. Pathobiology of Left Ventricular Dussynchrony and Resynchronization: Robert H. Helm, David D. Spragg, Khalid Chakir and David A. Kass. 3. Electrical Assessment of the Failing Heart: Dan Blendea and Jagmeet P. Singh. 4. Mechanical Assessment of the Failing Heart: Przemyslaw P. Borek and Richard A. Grimm. Color Plate Section. 5. Clinical Trials and Response to CRT: Kenneth M. Stein. 6. Implantation of CRT Device: Christian Sticherling. 7. Programming CRT Devices: Bengt Herweg, Arzu Ilercil and S. Serge Barold. 8. Troubleshootig CRT Devices and Clinical Outcomes: Dusan Kocovic. 9. Non-CRT Pacing in the Failing Heart: Limiting Ventricular Pacing and Searching for Alternate Pacing Sites: C. W. Israel. 10. Non-CRT Pacing in the Failing Heart: Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM): Daniel Burkhoff, Martin Borggrefe and Christian Butter. 11. Clinical Outcome and Chronic Management of Device Patients: Patrick W. Fisher, A. G. Kfoury and Dale G. Renlund. 12. Future Directions in Pacing to Support the Failing Heart: Angelo Auricchio and Kennth A. Ellenbogen. Index. COI Table