Heart Failure

Dr Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD MPH PhD, FACC, FHFSA, FASE, is Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of Cardiovascular Research at Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY. Dr Hal Skopicki, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, is the Ambassador Charles A. Gargano Chair of Cardiology, Co-Director of the Heart Institute, Director of the Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center, and Co-Director of the Ventricular Assist Device Program at Stony Brook University Medical Center, NY. Dr Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, FACC, FAHA, is the Patrick H. Lehan Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at University of Mississippi.

I. Basic Concepts in Heart Failure
1. Definitions and Clinical Diagnosis of Heart Failure
2. Epidemiology of Heart Failure
3. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
4. The Pathophysiology of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
5. Principles of Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy
6. Implantable Device Therapy in Heart Failure
II. Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
7. Pathophysiology and Clinical Evaluation of the Patient with Acute Heart Failure
8. Therapeutic Approaches in Acute Heart Failure

9. Advanced Therapeutic Options in Acute Heart Failure
III. Managing Chronic Heart Failure
10. Outpatient Management of Stable Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
11. Exercise and Rehabilitation inHeart Failure
12. The Patient with Ischemic Heart Failure
13.The Non-Ischemic Heart Failure Patient
14. Valvular Heart Disease and Heart Failure
15. The Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
16.Heart Failure with Recovered Ejection Fraction (HFrecEF) and Heart Failure with Midrange Ejection Fraction (HFmrEF)
17. The Advanced Heart Failure Patient
18. Palliative Care and Advanced Directives in Heart Failure
IV. Managing Cardiovascular Comorbidities in Heart Failure
19. Management of Hypertension in Heart Failure
20. Management df Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Heart Failure
21. Ventricular Arrhythmias in Heart Failure
V. Non-Cardiac Comorbidities and Heart Failure
22. The Management of Patients with Heart Failure and Diabetes
23. The Patient with Renal Dysfunction
24. The Patient with Anemia and Iron Deficiency
25. Management of Neurologic and Psychiatric Illness in the Patient with Heart Failure
VI. The Patient with Right Heart Disease
26. Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Failure from Left Heart Disease
27. The Patient with Non-Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension
VII. Special Cases of Heart Failure
28. Heart Failure in Adult Congenital Heart Disease
29. Cancer Therapies and Cardiac Dysfunction
30. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure in Pregnancy
31. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
32. Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo Syndrome)
33. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
34. Myocarditis
35. Infiltrative Diseases: Amyloid
36. Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies: Fabry Disease and Iron-Overload Cardiomyopathy