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 and 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 pathophysiology 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.

Περιεχόμενα:

1. Physiological connection between heart and Liver
2. Epidemiology of liver diseases in heart failure
3. Liver function tests in heart failure
4. Histopathology of the liver in heart failure
5. Hypoxic hepatitis and passive liver congestion
6. 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 disease
9. Fatty liver diseases and heart diseases
10. Alteration in the Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of drugs used for heart failure management in cirrhosis