Cardiology

A team of 250 international experts brings clinicians this thoroughly revised and updated New Edition. Its clinically oriented coverage integrates basic science, diagnostic investigations, and therapeutic management into a practical, user-friendly reference on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. A consistent format throughout parallels the clinical decision making process to make definitive guidance easy to locate and apply. Over 2,360 illustrations, including more than 1,940 full-color photographs, tables, and diagnostic images make techniques and concepts easy to grasp. Plus, a bound-in CD-ROM features all of the book's illustrations for use in PowerPoint® presentations.

• Features succinct reviews of basic science/pathogenesis, epidemiology and risk factors, specific diagnostic techniques, diseases/arrhythmias and surgical and non-surgical therapies for each major syndrome.
• Includes a unique "Special Problems" chapter in each disease section that uses clinical cases to highlight complex issues and offers practical advice on the diagnosis and management of difficult problems.
• Presents over 2,360 illustrations (1,940 in full color).

• Addresses the hottest topics in the field, including coronary artery bypass grafting, management and treatment of the elderly patient, obesity, the neurologic heart and the athlete's heart.
• Includes the latest non-invasive and invasive examinations, and diagnostic imaging techniques.
• Discusses the most up-to-date mechanical therapies for treating heart failure.
• Features a brand-new chapter on diabetes with the most current information on pathophysiology and therapy.
• Offers expanded coverage of behavioral science and psychosocial and alternative therapies.
• Presents many more diagrams and artwork throughout.
• Includes a CD-ROM of all the book's illustrations, allowing users to create PowerPoint® slides.

Preface
Contributors

SECTION 1: ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND PREVENTION
1. Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis
Goran Hansson and Jan Nilsson
2. Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases
Kjell Asplund
3. Risk factors and lifestyle interventions
Konrad Jamrozik
4. Assessment of cardiac risk
Edward Winslow
5. Special problems in the prevention of cardiovascular disease:
Diabetes mellitus type 2
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Menopausal women
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Nontraditional risk factors for coronary disease
David Waters
6. Therapeutic approaches to the diabetic patient
Mary Ellen Sweeney and David Orchard
7. Physical activity and the cardiovascular system
Calin Maniu, Thomas Flipse, Norman Patton and Gerald Fletcher
8. Therapy of hyperlipidemia
Lori Mosca
9. Special problems in hyperlipidemia therapy:
Child with hypercholesterolemia
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Transplant patient
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Hypercholesterolemia in the elderly
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Elevated lipoprotein(a)
Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
10. Diagnosis of vascular disease
Charles Tegeler and Disya Ratanakorn
NONCARDIAC VASCULAR DISEASES
11. Arterial diseases of the limbs
Bengt Fagrell
12. Cerebral vascular diseases
Kjell Asplund and Markku Fagerlund
13. Thoracic aorta disease
Jorge Wernly
14. Abdominal aortic aneurysms
Ian Franklin and Roger Greenhalgh
15. Venous disease
Agnes Lee
16. Surgery for vascular disease
David Bergqvist
17. Special problems in vascular disease:
Compromise of an internal thoracic artery to coronary artery graft by subclavian artery disease
Michael Crawford and Mark Langsfeld
Localized lymphedema
Michael Crawford and Mark Langsfeld

SECTION 2: ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
1. Physiology of coronary circulation
Eric Feigl and Wolfgang Schaper
2. Coronary artery anomalies
Allen Taylor and Renu Virmani
3. Pathophysiology of myocardial ischemia
PK Shah and Erling Falk
4. Noninvasive diagnosis of IHD
George Beller
5. Invasive diagnosis of IHD
William Kussmaul
6. Special diagnostic issues in IHD:
The patient with chest pain, a positive stress test and normal coronary arteries
Jonathan Abrams
The patient with coronary artery disease and acute heart failure
Jonathan Abrams
The patient with coronary artery disease and chronic heart failure
Jonathan Abrams
STABLE CORONARY SYNDROMES
7. Chronic stable angina pectoris
Udho Thadani
8. Variant angina pectoris
Juan Kaski and Ramon Arroyo-Espliguero
9. Microvascular angina pectoris and cardiac syndrome X
Hans Erik Botker
10. Asymptomatic myocardial ischemia
Prakash Deedwania
11. Special problems in myocardial ischemia:
Management of variant angina breakthrough
Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Mangement of the nonrevascularization candidate with severe angina
Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Treatment of silent ischemia
Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Treatment of microvascular angina
Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Viagra, sexual activity and the cardiac patient
Jonathan Abrams
ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES
12. Diagnosis of acute myocardial ischaemia and infarction
Allan Jaffe, Jorge Davidenko and Ian Clements
13. Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation MI
Lars Wallentin, Bertil Lindahl and Agneta Siegbahn
14. The early phase of acute myocardial infarction
Freek Verheugt
15. Subacute in-hospital phase of ST-segment elevation MI
Timothy Denton
16. Complications of acute MI
Bojan Cercek and PK Shah
17. Surgery for the complications of MI
Carlos Blanche
18. Post-hospital phase of an acute coronary syndrome
Christopher Cannon and Sidney Smith
19. Special problems in acute coronary syndromes:
Right ventricular infarction
Peter Clemmensen
AMI and normal coronary arteries
Peter Clemmensen and Peer Grande
Nonreperfused AMI after thrombolytic therapy
Peter Clemmensen
NON-PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT OF IHD
20. Catheter based techniques to treat IHD
Pim de Feyter
21. Surgery for IHD
Kenton Zehr and Hartzell Schaff
22. Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy:
Unprotected left main coronary angioplasty
Michael Ragosta
Chronic total occlusion
Michael Ragosta
Saphenous vein graft interventions
Michael Ragosta
Percutaneous intervention of cardiac allograft vasculopathy
Michael Ragosta
In-stent restenosis
Michael Ragosta

SECTION 3: HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE
1. Etiology and pathogenesis of systemic hypertension
David Calhoun, M. Amin Zaman and Suzanne Oparil
2. Epidemiology of hypertension
Ivan Perry
3. Clinical recognition of hypertension
Shawna Nesbitt, Wanpen Vongpatanasin and Ronald Victor
4. Complications of hypertension: heart
Chim Lang and Greg Lip
5. Complications of hypertension: kidney
Domenic Sica
6. Complications of hypertension: stroke
John Potter
7. Nonpharmacologic treatment of hypertension
Francesco Cappuccio and Alphonso Siani
8. Pharmacologic treatment
S. Luke Kusmirek, Aris Efstratopoulos and George Bakris
9. Hypertension crises
Gareth Beevers and Greg Lip
10. Diagnosis and treatment of secondary hypertension
David Martins and Keith Norris
11. Difficult hypertension management issues:
Hypertension and ethnicity
Greg Lip and Gareth Beevers
Hypertension in pregnancy: pre-eclampsia
David Churchill
Perioperative hypertension
William Elliott
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
William White
Diabetes and hypertension
Samy I. McFarlane and James Sowers
Resistant hypertension
Ronald Victor
Hypertension in the context of acute myocardial infarction and acute coronary interventions
Greg Lip
Concomitant therapy use in hypertension
George Bakris

SECTION 4: CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
1. Basic cardiac electrophysiology and anatomy
Mark Anderson and Dan Roden
2. Antiarrhythmic drug therapy
Paul Dorian and Wendy Lau
3. Principles of catheter ablation
David Haines
4. Syncope
Andrew Krahn, George Klein, Raymond Yee and Allan Skanes
BRADYARRHYTHMIAS
5. Sinus node dysfunction
John DiMarco
6. Atrioventricular and intraventricular conduction disorders
Nadir Saoudi, Jean Paul Rinaldi, Manuel Imianitoff, Khelil Yaïci, Jean Marc Coutelourd, Marc Bergonzi and Phillipe Ricard
7. Cardiac pacing
Henning Rud Andersen and Jens Cosedis Nielsen
8. Special problems in cardiac pacing:
Pacemaker syndrome
Mark Wood
Temporary cardiac pacing
Mark Wood
Diagnostic and surgical procedures in pacemaker patients
Mark Wood
Pacemaker lead extraction
Mark Wood
Biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure
Mark Wood
SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS
9. Supraventricular tachycardia
Carlos Morillo
10. Atrial fibrillation
Greg Lip, Michael Mangram and John DiMarco
11. Atrial flutter and atrial tachycardia
Francis Murgatroyd
12. Pre-excitation syndromes
James Leitch, Pru Hereford Ashley and Malcolm Barlow
13. Special problems in supraventricular arrhythmias:
Syncope in paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia
Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Cycle length alternation in supraventricular tachycardia
Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Atrial flutter
Bruce Walker
Postoperative atrial fibrillation
Bruce Walker
Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulation
Bruce Walker
VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS
14. Ventricular tachycardia
Martin Borggreffe, Gunther Breithardt and Christian Wolpert
15. Repolarization syndromes: Long QT, Brugada etc.
Katherine Murray and Dan Roden
16. Sudden cardiac death
Paul LeLorier and Kevin Monahan
17. Cardiac arrest resuscitation
Jose Joglar and Rick Page
18. Surgery for cardiac arrhythmias
Patricia Bakker
19. Implantable defibrillators
Kathy Lee and Chu-Pak Lau
20. Special problems in ventricular arrhythmias:
Multiple shocks from an implanted defibrillator caused by frequent episodes of ventricular tachycardia
John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Multiple shocks from an implanted defibrillator in a supra ventricular arrythmia
John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Syncope in a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
John Miller and Mithilesh Das
A young woman with palpitations and ventricular tachycardia
John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia following anterior myocardial infarction
John Miller and Mithilesh Das

SECTION 5: HEART FAILURE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY
1. Physiology of the normal and failing heart
Helmut Drexler and Gerd Hasenfuss
2. Assessment of the patient with heart failure
Ayan Patel and Marvin Konstam
3. Acute heart failure and shock
Steven Hollenberg, Mitchell Saltzberg, Jeffrey Soble and Joseph Parrillo
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
4. Heart failure due to systolic dysfunction
Gary Francis and Wai Tang
5. Management of the patient with chronic heart failure
Barry Massie
6. Heart failure with normal left ventricular ejec...