Cardiomyocyte and Heart Failure

In recent years, outcome of therapy in patients with heart failure is going up. Many clinical trials have demonstrated that renin angiotensin aldosterone system inhibitors and βblockers have functional roles in stabilizing and /or reversing cardiac remodeling via suppression of the excessive activation of renin angiotensin aldosterone and the adrenergic nervous system. Additively, the cardiac resynchronization therapy and ventricular assist device therapy also achieve remarkable success in heart failure therapy. Conversely, in many counties that come up against an elderly society, heart failure is a looming public health problem. Therefore, much further advancement of heart failure therapy and decrement of patients with heart failure are one of most important assignments in the medical services. In this chapter, we describe the recent topics of heart failure including 1,molecular basis of cardiomyocyte, 2,mechanisms of progression in heart failure, 3,renin angiotensin aldosterone system and heart failure, 4,β-adrenergic receptor and heart failure, 5, non-drug treatment and heart failure, 6,heart transplantation and heart failure, 7,Cardiac regeneration and heart failure.