Translational Approach to Heart Failure

Pathophysiology of Heart Failure: Back to Basics.- Heart Failure with Normal Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction – Basic Principles and Clinical Diagnostics.- 17 Cardiorenal Syndrome Revisited.- Doppler Echocardiography in the Clinical Evaluation of Heart Failure: What Clinicians Need to know and Echocardiographers Should Report.- Back to Earth: ‘Common sense’ in the Management of Heart Failure.- Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure:  Rate versus Rhythm Control.- Repetitive ICD Shocks and Incessant VTs in Heart Failure: What to Do?.- Dyssynchronous Heart Failure:  From Bench to Bedside.- 18 Telemonitoring and Sensor Technologies in Chronic Heart Failure.- Functional Mitral Regurgitation: the Surgeons’s Perspective.- Percutaneous Approaches to Treat Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Current State of Affairs and Future Perspectives.- Tailored Approach to Functional Mitral Regurgitation.- Revascularization and  Left Ventricular Reconstruction in a Patient with Ischemic Heart Failure: to STICH or not to STICH?.- Cardiac arrest en Refractory Cardiogenic Shock.- Left Ventricular Assist Devices – From Bridge to Transplant to Destination Therapy.- Novel Device-based Strategies in Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure.- Total Artificial Heart.- Stem Cell Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease.- Immunosuppressive Management of the Heart Transplant Recipient.