Heart Failure Management: The Neural Pathways
This book describes the most recent insights into heart failure and the role played by autonomic nervous system pathophysiology in it, discussing the therapeutic implications. While current therapeutic approaches are able to control the effects of excessi
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Edoardo Gronda Emilio Vanoli Alexandru Costea Editors
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Heart Failure Management: The Neural Pathways
Edoardo Gronda • Emilio Vanoli Alexandru Costea Editors
Heart Failure Management: The Neural Pathways
Editors Edoardo Gronda IRCCS MultiMedica Sesto San Giovanni Milan Italy
Alexandru Costea University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA
Emilio Vanoli IRCCS MultiMedica Sesto San Giovanni Milan Italy Department of Molecular Cardiology University of Pavia
ISBN 978-3-319-24991-9 ISBN 978-3-319-24993-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24993-3
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Foreword
The idea of the brain being in command and the heart housing the soul, distracts from the actual primary director of our life: the autonomic nervous system (ANS). It drives breathing, heartbeat, and any other aspect of being alive. Heart transplantations had shown that the removed heart was able to function properly without innervation. In early 1960, however, a major shift occurred in the understanding of the autonomic control of the heart by the discovery of its specialized and detailed control of all aspects of the cardiovascular system. Specific areas were described in the central nervous system with “highly specialized and sharply localized capacities for regional control of myocardial function” (Randall WC 1977). The evidence that parasympathetic fibers were distributed in the ventricles overcame the dogma that the cardiac vagal control was limited to the supraventricular structures. In 1977, Randall edited a first comprehensive book Neural Regulation of the Heart that still stands as a masterpiece in this field. In that period, Italy was one of the most fertile cradles in the field
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