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ISHLT Monograph Series

The ISHLT Monograph Series is an annual hardcover publication of the Society that provides in-depth coverage of the current state of knowledge of a specific topic relevant to heart and lung transplantation and/or end stage heart and lung disease.  Volume 1 of the series was published in September 2006 and is entitled Mechanical Circulatory Support, edited by O. H. Frazier, MD and James K. Kirklin, MD.  Volume 2 of the series was published in April 2008 and is entitled Pediatric Heart Transplantation, edited by Charles E, Canter, MD and James K. Kirklin, MD. Volume 3 (Part 1 & Part 2), entitled Advanced Heart Failure, edited by James K. Kirklin, MD, Nicholas R. Banner, FRCP, FESC, and Mariell Jessup, MD, FAHA, FACC, FESC, was published in February 2009 and is now available.

Ordering Information

One copy of Volumes 1 and 2 is available to ISHLT members for $15.00 each; Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) for $45.00. This covers the cost of shipping and handling. Copies of Volumes 1 and 2 are available to non-members for $60.00 each, Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) for $90.00. Members may also purchase additional copies of Volumes 1 and 2 for $60.00 each; Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) for $90.00.

Members and Non-Members can:

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ISHLT Monograph Series Volume 1:  Mechanical Circulatory Support, edited by O.H. Frazier, MD and James K. Kirklin, MD

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  Developmental History of Mechanical Circulatory Support by James K. Kirklin and O.H. Frazier
Chapter 2:  Biologic Barriers to Mechanical Circulatory Support by William A. Holman, Edward R. Teitel, and Silviu Itescu
Chapter 3:  Engineering Concepts in the Design of Mechanical Circulatory Support by James F. Antaki, Victor Piorier, and Francis D. Pagani
Chapter 4:  Positive Displacement Ventricular Assist Devices by J. Donald Hill, David F. Farrar, Yoshifumi Naka, Jonathen M. Chen, Peer M. Portner, and Daniel Loisance
Chapter 5:  Rotary Ventricular Assist Devices by Daniel Goldstein, Mark Zucker, Francis D. Pagani, and O.H. Frazier
Chapter 6:  Total Artificial Hearts by Jack G. Copeland, Robert D. Dowling, and Pei H. Tsau
Chapter 7:  Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support by Elizabeth D. Blume and Brian W. Duncan
Chapter 8:  Outcomes After Mechanical Circulatory Support by William A. Holman and James K. Kirklin
Chapter 9:  Myocardial Recovery Following Prolonged Mechanical Support by Guillermo Torre-Amione and Matthias Loebe
Chapter 10:  Permanent Mechanical Circulatory Support by Mark S. Slaughter and Mario C. Deng
Chapter 11:  The Evolving Role of Mechanical Circulatory Support in Advanced Heart Failure by Lynne Warner Stevenson
Chapter 12:  Emerging Left Ventricular Assist Devices by Leonard A..R. Golding, Ali El-Banayosy, Robert L. Kormos, David J. Farrar, Christof Schmid, Jal S. Jassawalla, Phillip J. Miller, Vigneshwar Kasirajan, John Woodard, and Donald S. Esmore

ISHLT Monograph Series Volume 2: Pediatric Heart Transplantation, edited by Charles E. Canter, MD and James K. Kirklin, MD

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  Heart Diseases Leading to Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Cardiomyopathies and Congenital Heart Diseases by Daphne T. Hsu, Jacqueline M. Lamour, and Charles E. Canter
Chapter 2:  Recipient Evaluation: Medical and Psychosocial Morbidities by Robert J. Gajarski and F. Bennett Pearce
Chapter 3:  Management of Patients Awaiting Transplantation: Medical, Immunologic, and Mechanical Support by Brian W. Duncan, Michael Burch, and James K. Kirklin
Chapter 4:  Special Immunologic Issues in Pediatric Heart Transplantation by Lori J. West, Robert E. Shaddy, and Ian C. Balfour
Chapter 5:  The Pediatric Heart Donor: Evaluation of Age, Size, Cause of death, Donor Heart Function, and Vitality by Daniel Bernstein and Francesco Parisi
Chapter 6:  Surgical Techniques in Pediatric Heart Transplantation by Pedro J. del Nido, Leonard L. Bailey, and James K. Kirklin
Chapter 7:  Postoperative Management: Early Graft Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Initial Immunosuppression Strategies by Charles B. Huddleston, Juan C. Alejos, and Josef M. Thul
Chapter 8:  Survival After Pediatric Heart Transplantation by Robert W. Morrow and James K. KirklinChapter 10:  Infection Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation by Kenneth O. Schowengerdt, Jr. and Estela Azeka
Chapter 11:  Allograft Vasculopathy: Detection, Risk Factors, Natural History, and Treatment by Elfriede Pahl, Alida L.P. Caforio, and Michael Kuhn
Chapter 12:  Posttransplant Malignancy: Risk Factors, Incidence, Diagnosis, Treatment by Linda J. Addonizio and Gerald J. Boyle
Chapter 13:  Child Development Posttransplant: Growth, Intellectual/Developmental Functioning, and Psychosocial Functioning by Rosemary Radley-Smith, Jo Wray, Richard Chinnock, and Karen Uzark
Chapter 14:  Long-term Medical Morbidities: Hypertension, Lipids, Renal Dysfunction, Arrhythmias by Tajinder P. Singh
Chapter 15:  Retransplantation by William T. Mahle and Clifford Chin

ISHLT Monograph Series Volume 3: Advanced Heart Failure, edited by James K. Kirklin, MD, Nicholas Banner, FRCP, and Mariell Jessup, MD

PART 1 Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1:  Introduction by Mariell Jessup
Section 2: Pathophysiology of the Failing Heart
Chapter 2:  Cellular and Subcellular Abnormalities by Risto Kerkelö and Thomas Force
Chapter 3:  The Cardiac Interstitium by Ahmad Munir, Richard C. Davis, and Karl T. Weber
Chapter 4:  Ventricular Remodeling in Advanced Heart Failure by John Harding and Thomas P. Cappola
Chapter 5:  Neurohormones and Cytokines in Heart Failure by James O. Mudd and Stuart D. Russell
Chapter 6:  Exercise Intolerance in Heart Failure by Finn Gustafsson and Heather J. Ross
Section 3: Cardiac Evaluation in the Patient with Advanced Heart Failure
Chapter 7:  Clinical Assessment of Hemodynamic Status in Advanced Heart Failure by Lynne Warner Stevenson
Chapter 8:  The Evolving Role for Hemodynamic Analysis in Heart Failure by David A. Kass
Chapter 9:  The Role of Cardiac Catheterization in Patients Who have Advanced Heart Failure by Robert L. Wilensky and Ruchira Glaser
Chapter 10:  Echocardiography by James N. Kirkpatrick
Chapter 11:  Nuclear and Positron Emission Tomography Imaging by Danilo Neglia and Alessia Gimelli
Chapter 12:  Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance by R. O'Hanlon and D.J. Pennell
Chapter 13:  Computed Tomography by Edward D. Nicol, James E. Stirrup, and Michael B. Rubens
Chapter 14:  The Role of ndomyocardial Biopsy in Advanced Heart Failure by Leslie T. Cooper, Jr.
Chapter 15:  B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and Other Natriuretic Factors by Roy S. Gardner and Theresa A. McDonagh
Chapter 16:  Troponin and Other Biomarkers by Thomas J. Dengler, Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus
Chapter 17:  Biomarkers and Other Prognostic Schemas in Heart Failure by Wayne C. Levy
Chapter 18:  Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Advanced Heart Failure by Santiago Miriuka and Heather J. Ross
Section 4: Secondary Organ Dysfunction in Heart Failure
Chapter 19:  The Cardiorenal Syndrome: Pathophysiology and Management by Michael R. Smith, Jie Li, Jigar Patel, and J. Thomas Heywood
Chapter 20:  The Liver in Heart Failure by Arie J. Stangou and Nicholas R. Banner
Chapter 21:  Cognitive Dysfunction in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure by Elaine M. Winkel, Walter G. Kao, Brian D. Juncker, and Maryl R. Johnson
Chapter 22:  Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Deconditioning in Heart Failure by Donna M. Mancini and Chim C. Lang
Section 5: Stabilization of the Heart Failure Syndrome: First Steps and Initiating Maintenance
Chapter 23:  Diuretics: Utility and Limitations by David S. Feldman, Terry S. Elton, and Kerry Pickworth
Chapter 24:  Renin-Antiotensin-Aldosterone Antagonists: When, How Much, and Limiting Factors by Michael B. Fowler
Chapter 25:  ß-Blockers in Heart Failure: When to Start and When to Stop by Simon F. Shakar and JoAnn Lindenfeld
Chapter 26:  Vasodilator Therapy in Advanced Heart Failure by Jennifer R. Brown, Patricia A. Uber, and Mandeep R. Mehra
Chapter 27:  Intravenous Inotropic Agents by Haifa Lyster and Nicholas R. Banner
Chapter 28:  Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy in the Patient with Advanced Heart Failure in Sinus Rhythm by Liviu Klein and John B. O'Connell

PART 2 Table of Contents

Section 6: Arrhythmias and Electrical Devices in the Patient with Advanced Heart FailureChapter 29:  Atrial Fibrillation by David G. Jones and Vias Markides
Chapter 30:  Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy by Zachary I. Whinnett, Darrel P. Francis, Jamil Mayet, and Nicholas S. Peters
Chapter 31:  Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Devices by E. Gronda, D. Pini and A. Municinò
Chapter 32:  Management of Recurrent Ventricular Arrhythmia by Matthew Wright, Ian Wright, and D. Wyn Davies
Chapter 33:  Emergency Pacemakers in Advanced Heart Failure by Ralph J. Verdino
Section 7: Clinicopathological Correlations
Chapter 34:  Acute Myocarditis: Diagnosis and Treatment by G. William Dec
Chapter 35:  Giant Cell Myocarditis by Margaret M. Burke and Andrew G. Mitchell
Chapter 36:  Amyloid Heart Disease by S.W. Dubrey and R.H. Falk
Chapter 37:  Pericardial Disorders by Zuheir Abrahams, Hadi N. Skourie, Wilfried Mullens, Mohammad H. Yamani, and Randall C. Starling
Section 8: Shock Complicating the Acute Coronary Syndrome
Chapter 38:  Reperfusion and Failure of Reperfusion by H.S. Lim and J.N. Townend
Chapter 39:  Myocardial Stunning by Rainer Zbinden and Michael Marber
Chapter 40:  Mitral Regurgitation and Ventricular Septal Rupture After Myocardial Infarction by J.R. Pepper
Chapter 41:  Shock Due to Catastrophic Loss of Myocardium by S.S.L. Tsui and Jayan Parameshwar
Section 9: Surgical Reparative Therapy
Chapter 42:  Myocardial Revascularization for Heart Failure by J. Thekkudan, V.B. Dronavalli and R.S. Bonser
Chapter 43:  Mitral Valve Regurgitation by G.D. Dreyfus
Chapter 44:  Reverse Remodeling Procedures: Surgical Ventricular Restoration and Prosthetic Girdling Devices by Aaron S. Blom and Michael A. Acker
Section 10: Other Therapies
Chapter 45:  Intra-Aortic Balloon and Other Counterpulsation Techniques by Alistair C. Lindsay, Asghar Khaghani, and Miles C.D. Dalby
Chapter 46:  Transplantation by S.A. Hunt
Chapter 47:  Permanent Ventricular Assist Devices by Saba N. Khan and Marc A. Silver
Chapter 48:  When Is Myocardial Failure Reversible? by Nicholas R. Banner
Section 11: Supportive Care at End of Life
Chapter 49:  Supportive and End-of-Life Care by Dale G. Renlund, Sally J. Brush, Kismet D. Rasmusson, and Abdallah G. Kfoury
Section 12: New Horizons
Chapter 50:  New Horizons in the Treatment of Heart Failure by Kumudha Ramasubbu and Douglas L. Mann