Growth Hormone And The Heart

1. Front Matter

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2. The Cellular and Molecular Basis for Growth Hormone Action on the Heart

   • Antonio Cittadini, Pamela S Douglas

   Pages 1-11

3. Physiological Effects of Growth Hormone on the Heart

   • Giovanni Lombardi, Annamaria Colao

   Pages 13-22

4. The Heart and the Growth Hormone Deficiency Syndrome

   • Mary Lee Vance

   Pages 23-27

5. Growth Hormone Replacement and Cardiac Function in the Growth Hormone Deficient Adults

   • Leif Thuesen, Jens S. Christiansen

   Pages 29-32

6. The Heart in Acromegaly

   • Marco Losa, Klaus Von Werder

   Pages 33-43

7. Impact of Growth Hormone-Lowering Treatments on Heart Function in Acromegaly

   • Philippe Chanson

   Pages 45-57

8. Growth Hormone Secretion In Congestive Heart Failure

   • Filippo Manelli, Maurizio Volterrani, Roberto Lorusso, Giuseppe Romanelli, Andrea Giustina

   Pages 59-66

9. The growth hormone axis in cachectic patients with chronic heart failure: evidence for acquired growth hormone resistance.

   • Stefan D. Anker, Claus-Dieter Pfaum, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Christian J. Strasburger

   Pages 67-79

10. Growth Hormone Treatment in Experimental Heart Failure

    • Jörgen Isgaard, Bengt-Åke Bengtsson

    Pages 81-85

11. Acute Growth Hormone Effects In Human Subjects With Heart Failure

    • Filippo Manelli, Maurizio Volterrani, Roberto Lorusso, Giuseppe Romanelli, Andrea Giustina

    Pages 87-96

12. Effect of Chronic Growth Hormone Treatment in Heart Failure

    • Maurizio Volterrani, Filippo Manelli, Andrea Giustina

    Pages 97-100

13. Does the Growth Factor Approach Have a Future in the Treatment of Human Heart failure?

    • Luigi Saccà, Antonio Cittadini, Serafino Fazio

    Pages 101-109

14. Exercise and Growth Hormone Secretion

    • Johannes D. Veldhuis, Arthur Weltman

    Pages 111-124

15. Growth Hormone and Skeletal Muscle Function

    • Ettore C. Degli Uberti, Paola Franceschetti, Maria R. Ambrosio

    Pages 125-149

16. Growth Hormone And Nutritional Status

    • Massimo Scacchi, Angela I. Pincelli, Francesco Cavagnini

    Pages 151-163

17. Effects of Growth Hormone on Sodium Homeostasis

    • Grace Y. W. Kam, Troels Wolthers, Ken K. Y. Ho

    Pages 165-174

18. Growth Hormone and Exercise Performance

    • William B. Wehrenberg, Lisa K. Conley, Filippo Manelli, Andrea Giustina

    Pages 175-182

19. Igf-1 And The Heart

    • Marc Y Donath, Juergen Zapf

    Pages 183-193

20. Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptides And The Heart

    • Vittorio Locatelli, Giuseppe Rossoni, Antonio Torsello, Micaela Bernareggi, Elena Bresciani, Vito De Gennaro Colonna et al.

    Pages 195-206

Growth Hormone and the Heart endeavors to bring together knowledge that has been accumulated in the area of GH and the heart, from basic to clinical studies, by research groups working on this topic throughout the world. Lessons from different experimental models and from several human diseases (acromegaly, adult GH deficiency, heart failure) suggest to endocrinologists and cardiologists that GH may not only have a role in the physiology and pathophysiology of heart function, but that GH itself may have a place in the treatment of primary heart diseases (such as dilated cardiomyopathy) or of cardiac complications of hypopituitarism.
Growth Hormone and the Heart will be a useful update of the research produced in the field of cardiovascular endocrinology. The Editors also hope that this book will serve as the primary step in the recognition of the wide physiological and clinical significance of GH and heart interactions.

• cardiac function
• cardiovascular
• growth factor
• homeostasis
• hormone resistance
• diabetes

`The text is clearly written, each chapter referenced up to 1999.'
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 15:4 (2002)

• Endocrine Section Department of Internal Medicine, University of Brescia, Italy

  Andrea Giustina, Filippo Manelli

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