Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications

Volume 1, Issue 1
01 October 2015
Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications
Compuscript Publishing

Table of contents

Editorial by the Founding Editor1
A Clinician’s Commentary on Heart Failure Treatment in the Future3
Strategies to Reduce Heart Failure Hospitalizations and Readmissions: How Low Can We Go?5
Congestive Heart Failure Clinics: How to Make Them Work in a Community-Based Hospital System13
Heart Failure Issues and Management: A European Perspective19
Unusual Cardiomyopathies: Some May Be More Usual Than Previously Thought and Simply Underdiagnosed29
Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Sorting Fact from Fiction in This Rare Cardiomyopathy37
Epidemiological Study of Heart Failure in China47
Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring for Heart Failure: A New Era of Heart Failure Management57
The Evaluation of the Heart Failure Patient by Echocardiography: Time to go beyond the Ejection Fraction65
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and the Failing Ventricle: Getting It Right81
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in 2015: Lessons Learned93
Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy: A Focused Review on Optimal Patient Selection and Long-Term Follow-up Using Echocardiography107
Mechanical Circulatory Support for the Failing Heart: Which Device to Choose119