Main description:

Cardio-Hepatology: Connections Between Hepatic and Cardiovascular Disease provides a direct relationship between the cardiac and hepatic pathologies providing the link between the heart and liver and showing how liver diseases predispose to impairment in heart functioning and vice versa. Considering the growing number of patients living (and living longer) with heart failure and/or congenital heart disease, it is important to know when and how to test for liver disease in this population, how to interpret abnormal test results, and what management is appropriate. Coverage includes what should be done for patients to limit, avoid, or postpone the impairment in the liver functioning induced by heart diseases and the impairment in the heart functioning induced by liver diseases, on the basis of scientific-exposed evidence and pathophysiology knowledge.

This comprehensive, extended review of the medical literature is perfect for researchers interested in the connection between cardiology and hepatology as well as clinicians making therapeutic decisions for patients suffering from heart or liver chronic diseases.

Contents:

I. Liver and heart 1. The liver2. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease 3. Pathophysiologic changes in chronic heart failure affecting drug pharmacokinetics 4. Drugs at the crossroads of heart and liver 5. Obstruction of the liver circulation

II. Hepatobiliary system in heart failure 6. Epidemiology of liver diseases in heart failure 7. Cardio-hepatology: liver function tests in heart failure 8. Prognostic value of liver assessment (including liver stiffness measurement) in cardiovascular diseases 9. Passive liver congestion and hypoxic hepatitis 10. Histopathology of the liver in heart failure

III. Cardiovascular system in liver failure 12. Sepsis and the liver 13. Bleeding and thrombosis in cirrhosis 14. Peripheral vasculature in portal hypertension 15. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy 16. Cardiovascular dysfunction in liver diseases: pediatric perspectives 17. Hepatorenal syndrome and acute kidney injury in cirrhosis 18. Cardiopulmonary considerations for the anesthetic management of liver transplantation 19. Cardiovascular assessment before liver transplantation 20. Predicting cardiovascular complications after liver transplantation