Textbook of Cardiorenal Medicine

This textbook provides a practical and board-driven resource to describe and define the emerging field of cardiorenal medicine. Covering all aspects of the topic with depth and relevance, this groundbreaking reference brings together experts at the nexus between cardiovascular and renal medicine to provide an exception reference to educate in this critical area of modern medicine. It describes how the heart and kidneys are inextricably linked via hemodynamic, neural, hormonal and cellular signaling systems and, concentrating on disease-based coverage, goes on to review emerging concepts in epidemiology, pathogenesis, screening, diagnosis and the management of cardiorenal syndromes, all extensively illustrated and containing features to support scholarship in the field.

Textbook of Cardiorenal Medicine provides consistent chapter organization, clear design and engaging text to define the diagnosis, treatment, intervention and surgical aspects of the full range of conditions encountered within this area of medicine. It is therefore an essential resource to all involved in the management of cardiorenal disease.

Preface

Foreword

1 Implications of Chronic Kidney Disease on the Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease

2 Prevalence and Progression of Cardiovascular Calcification in the General Population and Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

3 Spectrum of Ventricular Dysfunction in Chronic Kidney Disease

4 The Myocardium in Renal Failure

5 Impact of Renal Failure on Valvular Heart Disease

6 Arrythmias in Chronic Kidney Disease: Working Towards a Clinical Approach in Atrial Fibrillation

7 Type 1 Cardiorenal Syndrome

8 Type 2 Cardiorenal Syndrome

9 Type 3 Cardiorenal Syndrome

10 Type 5 Cardiorenal Syndrome

11 Post contrast acute kidney injury

12 Distinct Cardiorenal Syndromes:  Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury

13 Pediatric Cardiorenal Syndromes

14 Key concepts of organ-crosstalk

15 Methods to Assess Intra- and Extravascular Volume Status in Heart Failure Patients

16 Novel Biomarkers of Acute Cardiorenal Disease

17 Novel Biomarkers of Chronic Cardiorenal Disease

18 Mechanisms of Kidney and Heart Cross-Talk in Acute Kidney Injury

19 Kidney and the Heart in Multiorgan System Failure

20 Cardiac Consequences of Renal Artery Stenosis

21 Obesity

22 Class Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Cardiorenal Outcomes

23 Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Acute and Chronic Cardiorenal Syndromes

24 Pharmacoepidemiology in Cardiorenal Medicine

25 Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation in Advanced Chronic Kidney  Disease

26 Cardiac consultative approach to hemodialysis patients and cardiovascular evaluation and management of potential kidney transplant recipients

27 Nephrology Inpatient Consultative Approach in Patients with Cardiovascular  Disease

Professor Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Dr. McCullough is a consultant cardiologist and Vice Chair of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, in Dallas TX USA. He is an internationally recognized authority on the role of chronic kidney disease in cardiometabolic risk state with over 1000. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Cardiorenal Medicine and Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. In 2013, he was honored with the International Vicenza Award for Critical Care Nephrology for his outstanding contribution and dedication to the emerging problem of cardiorenal syndromes.

Professor Claudio Ronco is full professor of medicine  at the University of Padova. He was Director of the Renal Laboratory at the Renal Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Beth Israel Medical Centre of New York from 1999 - 2001. To date he has been the Director of Department of Nephrology at St. Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy. He has co-authored 1290 papers, 145 book chapters and 85 books, and he has delivered more than 960 lectures at international meetings and universities. He has a H-Index of 116.  He is a council member of several scientific societies and editor emeritus of the International Journal of Artificial Organs. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Blood Purification, Cardiorenal Medicine and Contributions to Nephrology. He is the pioneer of the new definition/classification of Cardiorenal syndromes. Professor Ronco has received numerous honours and awards including, in 2004, the lifetime achievement award and honorary membership in the Spanish Society of Nephrology, the National Kidney Foundation International Medal of Excellence and in 2009, the ISN Bywaters Award for Acute Renal Failure, the ERA-EDTA clinical carreer Award.