Cardio-Hepatology: Connections Between Hepatic and Cardiovascular Disease

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 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 patho-physiology 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. Reviews and discusses all current knowledge about the interactions between heart and liver pathologies Provides guidance on current topics surrounding the assessment of the liver in heart failure Presents important clinical cardiovascular assessments in cirrhotic patients INDICE: 1. Physiological connection between heart and Liver2. Epidemiology of liver diseases in heart failure3. Liver function tests in heart failure4. Histopathology of the liver in heart failure5. Hypoxic hepatitis and passive liver congestion6. Prognostic value of liver assessment in heart failure (including liver stiffness measurement)7. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (including hemodynamic change in cirrhosis)8. Congenital heart disease and the liver disease9. Fatty liver diseases and heart diseases10. Alteration in the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of drugs used for heart failure management in cirrhosis

• ISBN: 978-0-12-817394-7
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 15/06/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés