Ventricular-Assist Devices and Kidney Disease Clinical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Desai, Chaitanya (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cotts, William G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lerma, Edgar V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rudnick, Michael R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Nephrology.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Surgical transplantation.; Cardiac Surgery.; Transplant Surgery.

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 m...

Table of 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.