Main description:

This text serves as a convenient one-stop resource on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases in context of advanced heart failure and presence of ventricular assist devices. Advances in managing heart failure, evidence-based practices and therapies are covered, along with the management of this unique and complex subset of patients. The book also provides insights into combined heart and kidney transplantation. Authored by leaders in nephrology, cardiology and transplantation, this book fills a critical knowledge gap in understanding and treating patients with acute or chronic dysfunction of the heart and kidneys and how one induces dysfunction in the other organ.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Management of Advanced Heart Failure: An Overview

Chapter 2 Understanding Cardiovascular Hemodynamics

Chapter 3 Cardiorenal Syndromes

Chapter 4 Diuretics in Heart Failure

Chapter 5 Hyponatremia in Heart Failure and Ventricular Assist Device Patients

Chapter 6 Overview of Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Technical and Clinical Perspectives

Chapter 7 Selection for Ventricular Assist Device Placement in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Chapter 8 Effects of Ventricular Assist Device Therapies on Renal Function

Chapter 9 Management of Hypertension after Ventricular Assist Device Implant

Chapter 10 Right Ventricular Failure Post Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

Chapter 11 Renal Replacement Therapies in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Chapter 12 Patient selection for combined heart and kidney transplantation

Chapter 13 Outcomes with combined heart kidney transplantation