Section 1. History, Epidemiology and Burden due to chronic heart Failure 1. Introduction 2. Epidemiology and mortality due to heart failure 3. Behavioral Risk factors of heart failure including Marijuana, and Electronic Cigarette Smoking 4. Nutritional factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of HF 5. Evolution of the natural history of myocardial function to the heart failure Section 2. Classification of heart failure 6.
Pre-heart failure and 7. Classification of stages of heart failure Section 3. Molecular mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Heart Failure 8. Molecular and cellular biology of chronic heart failure 9. Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure 10. Circadian dysfunction in the pathogenesis of HF 11. Cardiac remodelling in chronic heart failure 12. Role of Obesity on Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Energy Imbalance in Heart Failure" Section 4.
Pathophysiology of Cardiac Function 13. Abnormalities in the cardiac contraction 14. Abnormalities in the cardiac relaxation Section 5. Autonomic nervous system in CHF 15. Role of Sympathetic nervous system in the chronic heart failure 16. Role of Parasympathetic nervous system in the chronic heart failure 17. The peripheral circulation in the chronic heart failure Section 6. Chronic heart failure and chronic kidney diseases 18.
Renal system in the chronic heart failure 19. Heart failure in chronic kidney disease Section 7. Imaging in Chronic Heart Failure 20. Role of non-invasive imaging with reference to Speckle Tracking 21. Echocardiography in the chronic heart failure 22. Usefulness of 2D and 3D echo in the assessment of systolic and diastolic LV dysfunction. More coverage will be given to diastolic heart failure 23. Role of brain imaging in CHF Section 8.
Causes of heart Failure 24. Causes for chronic heart failure 25. Coronary artery disease and heart failure 26. Cardiomyopathies and HF 27. Inflammatory and metabolic heart disease 28. Valvular heart disease 29. Congenital heart disease 30. Right heart failure Cor pulmonale with reference to Health Care Burden of Cardiorespiratory Diseases and Heart Failure Caused by Air Pollutants and Microparticles 31.
Oncology and heart failure 32. Acute heart failure 33. High prevalence of undetected heart failure in longterm care residents: findings from the Heart Failure in Care Homes (HFinCH) study 34. Analysing recurrent hospitalizations in heart failure: a review of statistical methodology, with application to CHARM-Preserved.