Surviving and Thriving With Heart Disease

This book is a comprehensive and empowering book on heart disease that offers a complete picture of managing and living with heart disease. The book, which expands on a previous edition, A Patient's Guide to Hearth Rhythm Problem, published by JHU Press, explores many guideline-based practices, while also sharing supplemental therapies that patients may have otherwise not known about and benefit from including osteopathic therapy, yoga/meditation, mindfulness, etc. Chapters take a deep dive to such procedures as tilt table testing, electrophysiology studies, catheter ablation, and device implantation (including cardiac monitors, pacemakers, defibrillators, and biventricular devices); explains the essentials of CPR and the use of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs); and presents the latest guidelines from the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society.

Surviving and Thriving With Heart Disease will be a valuable resource for practicing clinicians treating patients with cardiovascular disease as well as nurse practitioners, other medical professionals, and patients.

An empowering and comprehensive book on heart disease Explores guideline-based practices, such as supplemental therapies Discusses such procedures as tilt table testing, electrophysiology studies, catheter ablation, and device implantation

Autorentext

Todd J. Cohen, MD is a triple-boarded (Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and UCSF trained) inspirational cardiologist, inventor, entrepreneur, and educator. After witnessing his grandfather suffering a heart attack, receiving a pacemaker implant, and eventually succumbing to heart disease, he dedicated his life to advancing the field of cardiology. With over 300 publications, his articles have appeared in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Circulation; his books include a Library Journal Best Consumer Health Book entitled “A Patient’s Guide to Heart Rhythm Problems,” Johns Hopkins Press-2010, a trade book entitled “Practical Electrophysiology 3rd Edition” HMP Communications, LLC –2016, and a fictional novel entitled “Pollock No. 5,” Black Opal Books – 2021. He has 38 issued U.S. patents and has licensed and/or sold inventions to several leading companies in the field of electrophysiology, catheter ablation, implantable devices, and robotics.

Dr. Cohen built and directed two of the busiest EP programs on Long Island (North Shore Univ. and Winthrop Univ. Hospitals). He is currently the Chief of Cardiology, Director of Medical Device Innovation, and a Professor at NYITCOM in Old Westbury, New York. He is the Director and Founder of the Long Island Heart Rhythm Center (www.liheartrhythmcenter.com), and an attending physician at Mt. Sinai Morningside in New York City. He received the AOA Innovations Research Award, the NYSOMS Distinguished Service Award, and is a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors. He has a passion for art and is the President of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Art and Exhibition Committee at the Nassau County Museum of Art, in Roslyn, New York.

Roger S. Blumenthal, MD is the principal developer and Director of The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, and the Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins. He receivedhis medical degree from Cornell Medical College, where he was awarded the Weiss Prize for Excellence in Clinical Medicine. He then did his Internal Medicine and Cardiology Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins before joining thefaculty. He received the 2019 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) Arthur S. Agatston Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Award.

Together with Dr. Mariell Jessup, he was co-chair of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) subcommittee that oversaw the updates of all the Prevention-related guidelines (Blood Pressure,Cholesterol, Risk Assessment, Primary Prevention). Dr. Donna Arnett and he were co-chairs of the 2019 ACC/AHA Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Guideline.

In “Surviving and Thriving with Heart Disease,” Drs. Cohen and Blumenthal utilize their passion for healing and puttogether a “one-of-a-kind” empowering book that can help all patients and their friends and families learn how to “survive and thrive” with heart disease.

Inhalt

PART ONE: The Basics .- Overview: Your Heart.- Talk to Your Heart Doctor.- Monitor Your Pulse: Heartbeat and Rhythm.- Your Heart Pump: One Muscle, One Life.- Lifestyle Modifications: Eat Right, Exercise, and Reduce Stress.- Part two: Heart Rhythm Problems.- Slow and Fast Rhythms.- Ventricular Tachycardia, Ventricular Fibrillation, and Sudden Cardiac Arrest.- Supraventricular Tachycardia.- Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter.- Syncope.- Part 3: Heart Muscle Problems.- Coronary Artery Blockages and Heart Attacks.- Valve Disease.- Heart Muscle Problems: Cardiomyopathy.- Heart Failure.- Hereditary Conditions and Congenital Heart Disease.- Part Four: Tests.- Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG).- Stress Testing and Preparation for Cardiac Procedures.- Echocardiogram.- Monitoring Devices (Wearable and Implantable).- Computerized Axial Tomography (CT) Angiogram, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and PET Scan.- Electrophysiology Study (EP Study).- Tilt Table Test.- Cardiac Catheterization: Coronary Angiogram, Left Ventriculogram, and Aortogram.- Part Five: Treatments (Surviving).- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)/Stenting.- Heart Medications.- Cardioversion and Defibrillation.- Repair and Replacement of Malfunctioning Valves: Surgery, TAVR, and MitraClip.- Repair and Replacement of Malfunctioning Valves: Surgery, TAVR, and MitraClip.- Catheter Ablation.- Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators (Includes Leadless Pacemakers, Wearable and Subcutaneous Defibrillators).- Implants for Heart Failure (Biventricular and other "Optimizing" devices).- Left Atrial Occlusive Devices.- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).- Valve Repair and Replacement.- Heart Assist Devices, Artificial Hearts, and Heart Transplantation Surgery.- Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Repair of Atrial Septal Defects.- PART SIX: Treatments: Cardiac Risk Factors and Lifestyle Modifications (THRIVING).- High Cholesterol.- High Blood Pressure or Hypertension.- Obesity.- Smoking.- Diabetes.- Yoga and Meditation.- Mindfulness.- Children and Heart Disease.- Connective Tissue Disorders and Autoimmune Disorders.- 'Part Seven: Being Proactive.- Preventing Heart Disease.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and the Automatic External Defibrillator.- Patient Follow-up: Remote Monitoring and Telemedicine.- Smartphone and Wearable Technology and Heart Health.- Racial disparities and Gender differences in Heart Disease.- Support Groups, Counseling, and other resources.- Defensive Patienting: A Primer on Patient Safety.- Robotics and Heart Disease.- Supplements.- Infections of the Heart.