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Cardiac Function and Heart Failure
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Heart failure is becoming a modern-day epidemic. Learn what you need to know to effectively manage patients with acute and chronic heart failure—not just the latest diagnostic techniques, medications, and devices, but also successful ways to get patients involved in healthy living. Programming for cardiologists, Fellows in Training, and Cardiac Care Associates.
Hot Topics
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
- Gaps in our understanding
- Optimal goals during hospitalization
- Differences in management around the world
- Clinical trial design
Diastolic Heart Failure
- Beyond preserved ejection fraction
- New physiologic insights
- Hypertensive, ischemic, and diabetic heart diseases
- Pericardial diseases
Difficult Decisions in End-Stage Heart Failure
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Intermittent infusion therapies
- Palliative and hospice care
Important Trends
- The latest on biomarkers
- Managing anemia
- New-onset heart failure
- Sleep apnea and heart failure
Learn from the Experts
- Quality indicators in heart failure
- A practical approach to heart failure disease management
- Setting up a heart failure clinic
- Improving patient self-care and treatment adherence
Translational Science
- Novel Immune Mechanisms of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Mast Cells, antihistamines, T cells, cytokines, and more. Genetic, metabolic, autonomic, and viral mechanisms
- Mitochondrial function in heart failure
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