Exercise And Rehabilitation In Heart Failure An Issue Of Heart Failure Clinics

This multidisciplinary issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines a critical element in the management and treatment of heart failure (HF)—exercise and rehabilitation. Topics include the reversal of HF-associated pathophysiology with exercise; quantifying function; prognosis; rehabilitation practice patterns in the United States, Canada, South America, Asia, and Europe; special considerations such as obesity, high-intensity interval training, inspiratory muscle training, and technology to promote and increase physical activity.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines the critical role of team-based care in the management of patients with heart failure. Articles address Team-Based Care for Prevention, Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure, Transitions of Care, Outpatients, Managing Cardiac Comorbidities, Managing Non-cardiac Conditions, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training, External Telemonitoring, Ambulatory Hemodynamic Cardiac Device Monitoring, Advanced Heart Failure, and Palliative and End-of-Life Care.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Francesco Antonini-Canterin, is dedicated to Clinical Heart Failure Scenarios: from Prevention to Overt Disease and Rehabilitation. This issue is one of four selected each year by series consulting editor Dr. Eduardo Bossone. This issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview over the broad spectrum of clinical scenarios of heart failure, starting from prevention in asymptomatic phase to acute and chronic congestive heart failure to modern rehabilitation.

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Dr. Daniel E. Forman, is devoted to Cardiac Rehabilitation. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Cardiac Rehabilitation: No Such Thing As ‘Too Old’; Evaluating and Treating Frailty in Cardiac Rehabilitation; Utility of Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation for Older Adults; Benefits of Smart devices, Wearables, and Other Telehealth Options to Enhance Cardiac Rehab; Resistance Training in Cardiac Rehabilitation for Older Adults; High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in Cardiac Rehabilitation for Older Adults; Pre-habilitation: The right medicine for older frail adults anticipating TAVR, CABG, and other cardiovascular care; Using Cardiac Rehabilitation to Adjust Medications in Older Adults: Aggressive Prevention and Deprescribing as 2 Sides of the Same Coin; Gender Disparities in Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Older Women: Key opportunities to improve care; Cardiac Rehabilitation for TAVR; Cardiac Rehabilitation for Heart Failure in Older Adults; Cardiac Rehabilitation for Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) in Older Adults; Cardiac Rehabilitation as Part of Management in Post-acute Care (PAC): Opportunities for improving care; and Tailoring Assessments in Cardiac Rehabilitation for Older Adults: The relevance of geriatric domains.

This volume offers state-of-the-art information and serves as a manual to providers about the multidisciplinary nature of cardiac rehabilitation in the current era, the current state of cardiac rehabilitation, and the issues presenting to current CR programs.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines the pharmacologic approaches to heart failure: optimizing established therapy with a look toward future agents. Topics include the pathophysiologic foundation for the pharmacologic treatment of heart failure, treatment of heart failure with reducted ejection fraction and preserved ejection fraction, treatment of acute heart failure, investigational treatments, and the role of congestive heart failure medications following left ventricular assist device.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics examines Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF). The followings aspects of HFPEF are addressed: epidemiology, etiologic factors and pathophysiology, diagnosis, clinical spectrum, imaging, invasive hemodynamic characterization, exercise physiology, natriuretic peptides, novel biomarkers, differential diagnoses and comorbidities, outcomes, clinical trials, current therapeutic approach, and novel therapeutic targets.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, edited by Drs. Wilbert Aronow and Ali Ahmed, will cover a wide array of topics related to Heart Failure in Older Adults. Subjects covered include, but are not limited to: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prognosis of Heart Failure in the Older Adult; DEFEAT Heart Failure: Clinical Manifestations, Diagnostic Assessment, and Etiology of Geriatric Heart Failure; Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in the Older Adult; Heart Failure—Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction; Interventional Therapies for Heart Failure in the Older Adult; Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Treatment of Heart Failure in the Older Adult; and Left Ventricular Assist Devices in Treatment of Heart Failure in the Older Adult, among others.