Skip to product information
1 of 1
Regular price £121.99 GBP
Regular price £157.00 GBP Sale price £121.99 GBP
Sale Sold out
Free UK Shipping

Freshly Printed - allow 10 days lead

Emerging Technologies for Heart Diseases
Volume 1: Treatments for Heart Failure and Valvular Disorders

Comprehensive reference on emerging medical technologies in the cardiovascular field that focuses on heart failure and valvular disease

Udi Nussinovitch (Edited by)

9780128137062, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 19 August 2020

553 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 3.2 cm, 1.7 kg

"This book will be a valuable resource for healthcare providers and innovators in the field of cardiovascular medicine. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current and novel treatment options for heart failure and valvular disease." --Doody

The increasing pace of advances in cardiology throughout the last few decades has fundamentally altered the natural course of heart patients. In the last few years, available therapies have been revolutionized completely by new transcatheter therapeutic approaches, novel ventricular assist devices, and new drugs. Also, molecular biology and genetics have a rapidly growing impact on cardiovascular diseases, enabling the field of regenerative medicine to become increasingly closer to routine clinical implementation.

Emerging Technologies for Heart Diseases was conceived to cover the recent extensive literature on current and novel therapeutic options for cardiac patients. The first volume is dedicated to heart failure and valvular disorders, and the second covers myocardial ischemia and arrhythmias. The clinical topic is addressed in several chapters divided according to the therapeutic approach (mechanical or electrical device-based, or cell and gene-based). Each of the 46 chapters focuses on clinically available solutions, new therapies currently under evaluation in clinical trials, promising preclinical technologies, and emerging concepts and innovations that have not yet been tested in a preclinical model. Also, the book discusses future challenges and opportunities for clinical implementation. Lessons learned from abandoned experimental practices are also covered, giving the readers the widest possible perspective of current therapeutic dilemmas.

Overall, this textbook was designed for physicians who want to stay up-to-date with current therapies and those of the future, for biomedical companies, and for those who wish to broaden their knowledge of new cardiovascular therapeutic options.

SECTION 1: Treatment of heart failure – device-based therapies and monitoring modalities 1. Keeping a Finger on the Pulse - A brief history of cardiovascular medicine 2. Artificial mechanical hearts and ventricular assist devices 3. Percutaneous left and right ventricular support devices 4. Cardiac resynchronization therapy 5. Left atrial decompression devices 6. Device-based treatment for diastolic heart failure 7. Ultrafiltration and other treatments of volume overload in congestive heart failure 8. Cardiac physical remodeling and percutaneous solutions for the treatment of advanced Heart Failure

SECTION 2: Treatment of systolic heart failure - cell and gene-based therapies, tissue engineering and biopolymers 9. Cardiac xenotransplantation 10. Marrow-derived stromal cells for cardiac regeneration 11. Heart-derived cells for therapeutic application 12. Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiac Regeneration 13. Heart Regeneration Using Somatic Cells 14. In-vitro engineered heart tissue grafts 15. Decellularization of whole hearts for cardiac regeneration 16. Gene and protein-based therapies for improving cardiac performance and regeneration 17. Biopolymers in the treatment of heart failure and cardiac remodeling

SECTION 3: Treatment of systolic heart failure - novel pharmacological treatments 18. Novel pharmacotherapies for the treatment of heart failure

SECTION 4: Treatment of valvular disorders 19. Heart Valve Tissue Engineering: Current Preclinical and Clinical approaches 20. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement 21. Transcatheter mitral valve repairs for degenerative and Functional mitral regurgitation 22. Transcatheter mitral valve implantation 23. Transcatheter treatments for tricuspid valve diseases

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Cardiovascular medicine [MJD]

View full details