Inflammation – Cause or Consequence of Heart Failure or Both?

• Published in: Current heart failure reports Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 251 - 265
• Main Authors: Van Linthout, Sophie, Tschöpe, Carsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2017
• Subjects: Cardiac Surgery; Cardiology; Chronic Disease; Comorbidities of Heart Failure (C Angermann and F Edelmann; Comorbidities of Heart Failure (C Angermann and F Edelmann, Section Editors); Heart Failure - complications; Heart Failure - metabolism; Heart Failure - physiopathology; Hemodynamics; Humans; Imaging; Inflammation - complications; Inflammation - metabolism; Internal Medicine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Myocarditis - complications; Myocarditis - metabolism; Precision Medicine; Radiology; Renin-Angiotensin System; Section Editors; Signal Transduction - physiology; Topical Collection on Comorbidities of Heart Failure; Vascular Surgery; Heart failure; Cardiosplenic axis; Monocytopoiesis; Sterile inflammation; Para-inflammation; ß-adrenergic signaling

Purpose of Review With the intention to summarize the currently available evidence on the pathophysiological relevance of inflammation in heart failure, this review addresses the question whether inflammation is a cause or consequence of heart failure, or both. Recent Findings This review discusses...