CARDIOLOGIST'S PACKAGE: Heart Failure & Chronic Heart Failure

Heart Failure in a Broader Context. A set of two books exploring the links between heart failure and inflammation, depression, muscle loss, and physical wasting. The publications, edited by Grzegorz Sobieszek and Teresa Małecka-Massalska—and, in the volume *From Inflammation to Depression*, also by Grzegorz Opielak—help provide a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of the disease. Buy them together—55% off when purchased as a bundle!

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Chronic heart failure. From Inflammation to Depression

According to estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO), major depression is currently the third leading cause of morbidity worldwide, and it is estimated that by 2030, will come in first place. Depression and chronic heart failure have been recognized and observed as medical conditions for many years. Recently, there has been increasing explicit discussion of the link between chronic circulatory failure and depression—or even a whole group of neuropsychiatric disorders.

The new edition of the book has been expanded to include two additional chapters:
- Depression and Heart Failure as a Social and Medical Problem
- Depression and Heart Failure—A Shared Pathogenesis
The chapter on the mechanisms underlying depression and heart failure describes their common hormonal basis, emphasizing the specific role of thyroid hormones, anabolic hormones, parathyroid hormone, and dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary–adrenal axis. A discussion took place regarding inflammation in patients with depression and chronic heart failure, which affects nutritional status and leads to sarcopenia or cachexia. Coagulation disorders and arrhythmias, which also co-occur in both conditions, were not overlooked.

The remaining chapters of the book present the latest guidelines for understanding heart failure as a clinical entity that, despite the passage of time and advances in medicine, continues to be associated with high mortality and the need for hospitalization. Each of them addresses issues that are important from a practitioner’s perspective: primarily those related to establishing the correct diagnosis and implementing appropriate treatment, based on a holistic approach to the condition.
Heart Failure: From Sarcopenia to Cachexia

The book “Heart Failure: From Sarcopenia to Cachexia” guides the reader through the latest guidelines on understanding heart failure as a clinical entity that, despite the passage of time and advances in medicine, continues to be associated with high mortality and the need for hospitalization.

Each chapter presents key issues from a practitioner’s perspective: primarily those related to making an accurate diagnosis and implementing appropriate treatment based on a holistic approach to the condition.