Cardio-Hepatology: Connections Between Hepatic and Cardiovascular Disease

Cardio-Hepatology: Connections Between Hepatic and Cardiovascular Disease provides a direct relationship between the cardiac and hepatic pathologies providing the link between the heart and liver and showing how liver diseases predispose to impairment in heart functioning and vice versa. Considering the growing number of patients living (and living longer) with heart failure and/or congenital heart disease, it is important to know when and how to test for liver disease in this population, how to interpret abnormal test results, and what management is appropriate. Coverage includes what should be done for patients to limit, avoid, or postpone the impairment in the liver functioning induced by heart diseases and the impairment in the heart functioning induced by liver diseases, on the basis of scientific-exposed evidence and pathophysiology knowledge.

This comprehensive, extended review of the medical literature is perfect for researchers interested in the connection between cardiology and hepatology as well as clinicians making therapeutic decisions for patients suffering from heart or liver chronic diseases.

Author: Tatsunori Taniguchi
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 09/22/2022
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780128173947

About the Author
Taniguchi, Tatsunori: - Dr. Taniguchi is a professor and cardiologist of the medical staff at the department of cardiovascular medicine at Okaska University Graduate School of Medicine in Suita, Japan. He is a member of The Japanese Circulation Society and The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. He is the recipient of the 2014 Japan Circulation Society (Kinki Regional Scientific Meeting) Young Investigator's Award and The Japan Society of Ultrasound Sonics in Medicine Prize for Encouragement.Lee, Samuel: - Dr. Lee was born in Korea, but moved to Canada as a young boy. He graduated MD from Memorial University, Canada, and did residency training at University of Toronto (Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology) from 1978-83. This was followed by a research fellowship in hepatic hemodynamics at INSERM Unit 481 in Paris, France (Beaujon Hospital), 1984-87. He was a Visiting Scholar at Technion University, Haifa, Israel, for 4 months in 1987, and then joined the faculty of University of Calgary in 1988. He is currently Professor of Medicine (Hepatology), with research interests in cardiovascular complications of cirrhosis, and viral hepatitis. He has published >230 peer-reviewed scientific papers, >30 book chapters and edited a textbook on management of cirrhosis complications. He has won several awards for teaching and research including the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, the Canadian Association of the Study of Liver (CASL) Distinguished Service Award, 2015, CASL/CLF Gold Medal in 2021, and has lectured in >40 countries. He is a past-president of CASL and the International Ascites Club, and was editor-in-chief of Liver International from 2008-2013. He is chair of the steering committee for the Canadian HCV database registry CANUHC (Canadian Network Undertaking against Hepatitis C). He is currently Past-President of the International Association for Study of Liver (IASL).