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

Associates 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

Covers kidney diseases in context of advanced heart failure, presence of ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation

Provides nephrologists, cardiologists, transplant specialists and specialists guidance in the management of complex nephrologic issues

A convenient one-stop resource that fills a critical knowledge gap

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.