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Heart Failure Management: The Neural Pathways

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Editors:
  1. Edoardo Gronda

    1. Director of Cardiology Division, IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

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  2. Emilio Vanoli

    1. Heart Failure Clinic, IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

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  3. Alexandru Costea

    1. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

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  • Provides new insights into heart failure and the role of autonomic nervous system pathophysiology

  • Discusses clinical perspectives that go beyond current therapies and their limitations

  • Written by top scientists from leading research centers

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Current Heart Failure Therapies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Esther Vorovich, Mariell L. Jessup
      Pages 3-9

    3. Therapies in Heart Failure, Tomorrow May Be Too Late

      • Edoardo Gronda, William T. Abraham
      Pages 11-23

    4. Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure, and the Autonomic Nervous System

      • Omeed Zardkoohi, Gino Grifoni, Luigi Padeletti, Alexandru Costea
      Pages 25-41

    5. Current Therapies for Ventricular Tachycardia: Are there Autonomic Implications of the Arrhythmogenic Substrate?

      • Alexandru Costea, Omeed Zardkoohi
      Pages 43-60

  3. The Autonomic Regulation and Dis-regulation of the Heart: Pathophysiology in Heart Failure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. “The Autonomic Nervous System Symphony Orchestra”: Pathophysiology of Autonomic Nervous System and Analysis of Activity Frequencies

      • Nicola Montano, Eleonora Tobaldini
      Pages 63-72

    3. Autonomic Pathophysiology After Myocardial Infarction Falling into Heart Failure

      • Emilia D’Elia, Paolo Ferrero, Marco Mongillo, Emilio Vanoli
      Pages 73-85

    4. Cardiovascular Serenade: Listening to the Heart

      • Philip B. Adamson, Emilia D’Elia
      Pages 87-100

    5. Whispering During Sleep: Autonomic Signaling During Sleep, Sleep Apnea, and Sudden Death

      • Maria Teresa La Rovere, Gian Domenico Pinna
      Pages 101-113

    6. Cerebral Aging: Implications for the Heart Autonomic Nervous System Regulation

      • Alessia Pascale, Stefano Govoni
      Pages 115-127

  4. Modulation of Autonomic Function in Heart Failure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Autonomic Cardiorenal Crosstalk: Pathophysiology and Implications for Heart Failure Management

      • Maria Rosa Costanzo, Edoardo Gronda
      Pages 131-164

    3. Vagal Stimulation in Heart Failure: An Anti-inflammatory Intervention?

      • Gaetano M. De Ferrari, Peter J. Schwartz, Alice Ravera, Veronica Dusi, Laura Calvillo
      Pages 165-182

    4. Baroreflex Activation Therapy in Heart Failure

      • Guido Grassi, Eric G. Lovett
      Pages 183-197

    5. Renal Reflexes and Denervation in Heart Failure

      • Federico Pieruzzi
      Pages 199-213

    6. Back to the Future

      • Emilio Vanoli, Edoardo Gronda
      Pages 215-216
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About this book

This book describes the most recent insights into heart failure and the role played by autonomic nervous system pathophysiology in it, discussing the therapeutic implications. While current therapeutic approaches are able to control the effects of excessive adrenergic activation in heart failure syndrome, the underlying abnormalities of adrenergic control remain unaltered and can still cause progression to unmanageable end-stage heart failure. New therapeutic pathways are therefore being explored with a view to developing interventions that can directly modulate adrenergic over-activity and restore a more appropriate balance in neural control of the cardiovascular system. The book opens by examining current heart failure therapies. Advances in our understanding of autonomic regulation/dysregulation in heart failure are then discussed in detail, in the context of the search for more effective therapies. A concluding section addresses the role of autonomic nervous system denervation in heart failure. The authors are top scientists from leading research centers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Director of Cardiology Division, IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

    Edoardo Gronda

  • Heart Failure Clinic, IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy

    Emilio Vanoli

  • University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

    Alexandru Costea

About the editors

Dr. Edoardo Gronda is Director of IRCCS Clinical Research Cardiology Unit and San Giuseppe Hospital (MultiMedica Group) in Milan, Italy, since 2010. His interest in heart failure started in 1984 when he staged 6 months at the London University Hospital Ontario (Canada), training on Heart Transplant program. Back to Italy he became one of the earliest Italian experts in heart failure as a sub-specialty, running the Heart failure/Heart Transplant Medicine Program at the Niguarda General Hospital, Milan, until 1999.

Emilio Vanoli is Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University of Pavia (Italy) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology at the University of Oklahoma. He is Director of the outpatient Heart Failure Clinic, IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto S. Giovanni, Milan (Italy).  

Alexandru Costea is Medical Director of Electrophysiology at the University of Cincinnati Hospital. He is Full Professor at the University of the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship Program since 2010. Furthermore, he is an expert in atrial fibrillation ablations and ventricular tachycardia ablations. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heart Failure Management: The Neural Pathways

  • Editors: Edoardo Gronda, Emilio Vanoli, Alexandru Costea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24993-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24991-9Published: 09 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79716-8Published: 30 March 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24993-3Published: 24 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology, Neurology, Nephrology, Cardiac Surgery, Angiology

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