Outline Introduction and Goals of Clinical Evaluation, 403 History and Physical Examination: the Core of the Evaluation, 403 Medical History, 404 Symptoms, 404 Information About Past Medical History and Comorbidities,…
Outline Restrictive and Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy, 288 Clinical Evaluation, 289 Cardiac Catheterization and Endomyocardial Biopsy, 289 Prognosis, 289 Clinical Manifestations, 290 Laboratory Studies, 290 Inherited and Acquired Infiltrative Disorders Causing Restrictive…
Outline History, 376 Viral Etiologies, 377 Autoimmune (Nonviral) Etiologies, 378 Pathogenesis in Murine Models, 378 Clinical Presentation, 378 Cardiac Imaging, 379 Endomyocardial Biopsy, 380 Myocarditis Mimicking Acute Coronary Syndrome, 380…
Outline Overview, 311 Definition, 312 Epidemiology, 312 Molecular Genetic Basis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 313 Pathogenesis, 314 Effects of the Mutations on Transcription and Translation, 314 Effects of Mutations on Sarcomere…
Outline Clinical Presentations, 323 Findings That Indicate a Genetic Form of Cardiomyopathy, 323 Fabry Disease, 324 Danon Disease, 324 Familial Cardiac Amyloidosis, 325 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, 325 Left Ventricular…
Key wordsdiastole, endothelial dysfunction, Heart failure, inflammation Outline Physiology of Diastolic Filling and Compliance, 151 Diastolic Dysfunction, 152 Invasive Measurement of Diastolic Function: Relaxation and Chamber Stiffness, 152 Noninvasive…
Outline Heart Failure: A Global Perspective, 385 Global Burden of Heart Failure in the Developing World, 385 What Do We Know About the Variation of Risk Factor Prevalence?, 386 What…
Outline Assessment of Human Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity, 181 Catecholamines, 181 Microneurography, 182 Arterial Baroreflex Sensitivity, 183 Heart Rate Variability, 183 Cross-Spectral Analysis, 184 Tracer Imaging With Catecholamine…
Outline Left Ventricular Remodeling, 166 Alterations in the Biology of the Cardiac Myocyte, 166 Alterations in the Myocardium, 169 Changes in Left Ventricular Geometry, 170 Clinical Studies Linking Left Ventricular…
Outline What Is Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Heart Failure?, 395 Historical Perspective, 395 Contemporary Shifts in Epidemiology, 396 Pathophysiology of Heart Failure in Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 396 Poor Human Immunodeficiency Viral…
