Hormonal and Metabolic Abnormalities in Heart Failure Patients: Pathophysiological Insights and Clinical Relevance, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, Guest Edited by Dr.�Pasquale Perrone Filardi, will focus on�Hormonal and Metabolic Abnormalities in Heart Failure Patients. This issue is one of four selected for the year by the series Consulting Editor,�Eduardo Bossone. Topics include, but are not limited to,�Glucose metabolism abnormalities in heart failure patients, Diabetic cardiomyopathy,�New oral antidiabetics in chronic heart failure,�Metabolic syndrome and heart failure,�Eritropoietin anemia and iron vs. exercise capacity in chronic heart failure,�Prognostic value of hormonal abnormalities in heart failure patients,�Hormonal Replacement Therapy in Heart Failure,�The management of thyroid abnormalities in chronic heart failure,�Acromegaly and heart failure,�Beta-receptor signaling and heart failure,�and Evaluation of cardiac metabolism by magnetic resonance spectroscopy in heart failure.