Cardio-Hepatology

Connections Between Hepatic and Cardiovascular Disease

Tatsunori Taniguchi, Samuel Lee
Elsevier
376 pages
ISBN: 9780128173947
October 2022

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.