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
About the Author: Chaitanya R. Desai, MD
Director, Nephrology
Solid Organ Transplantation and Advanced Heart Failure Therapies
Kidney, Heart, Lung transplant and HF/VAD programs
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Illinois
William G. Cotts, MD, FACC, FACP, FAH
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois
Clinical Director, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Assistance
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, Il
Edgar V. Lerma, MD, FACP, FASN, FAHA, FASH, FNLA, FNKF, FASDIN, FPSN (Hon)*
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Section of Nephrology
University of Illinois at Chicago College of MedicineAssociates in Nephrology, SC
Chicago, IL
Michael R. Rudnick, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine
Philadelphia PA
