Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation

Daniel J. Garry, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA Robert F. Wilson, MD, University of Minnesota, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA Zeev Vlodaver, MD, University of Minnesota, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA

A Historical Overview of Cardiovascular Medicine and Heart Failure.- Physiology of the Normal and Failing Heart.- Molecular Biology of the Normal and Failing Heart.- Pathology of Ischemic Heart Disease.- The Pathology of Cardiomyopathies.- Epidemiology of Heart Failure.- Acute Heart Failure.- Ischemic Cardiomyopathy.- Valvular Cardiomyopathy.- Molecular Mechanism of Sarcomeric Cardiomyopathies.- Right Heart Failure.- Neuromuscular Cardiomyopathies.- Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF).- Myocardial Viability and Imaging in the Failing Heart.- Cardiorenal Syndrome and Heart Failure.- Neurohormonal Activation and the Management of Heart Failure.- Remodeling in the Development of Chronic Systolic Heart Failure: Implication for Treatment.- Heart Failure Prevention.- Arrhythmias in Cardiomyopathy.- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.- Advanced Therapies: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Heart Failure.- Ventricular Assist Devices for Advanced Heart Failure.- Regenerative Mechanisms of the Adult Injured and Failing Heart.- Cell therapy and heart failure.- History of Cardiac Transplantation: Research, Discoveries and Pioneers.- Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: A Surgical Perspective.- Cardiac Transplantation: Immunobiology and Immunotherapy.- Cardiac Transplantation Pathology.- Management of the Post-transplant Cardiac Patient.- Adult Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Early Complications.- Late Complications Following Heart Transplantation.- Heart Transplantation and Antibody-Mediated Rejection.- Heart and Heart-lung Transplantation in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.- Cardiac Xenotransplantation.