A Practical Approach to Cardiovascular Medicine

Contributors.List of Abbreviations.Foreword. Section I. Preventive Cardiology.Chapter 1 Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (Maulik Shah and Stephen).Chapter 2 Dyslipidemia (Karim Salam and Reza Ardehali).Chapter 3 Hypertension (Christopher Woods., Ph.D and Richard Lafayette).SECTION II. CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.Chapter 4 Stable Angina (Joshua Lehrer and William Fearon).Chapter 5 Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Joshua Lehrer and David P. Lee).Chapter 6 ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Yen Ho. and Alan Yeung).SECTION III. HEART FAILURE.Chapter 7 Care of the Cardiomyopathic Patient (Nicholas Leeper, Reza Ardehali and Michael Fowler).Chapter 8 Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Heart Failure (Mathew Wheeler and Roham Zamanian).Chapter 9 Heart Transplant (Jesus Almendral, Robert Maranda and Sharon Hunt).SECTION IV. VALVULAR AND VASCULAR DISEASE.Chapter 10 Valvular Heart Disease (Reza Ardehali and Ingela Schnittger).Chapter 11 Disease of the Aorta (Micheal Ho and David Liang).Chapter 12 Peripheral vascular Disease (Andrew Wilson, Reza Ardehali and John Cooke).SECTION V. ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH.Chapter 13 Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter (Marco Perez and Amin Al-Ahmad).Chapter 14 Supraventricular Tachycardia (Marco Perez and Paul Zei).Chapter 15 Ventricular Tachycardia (Jeffrey Hsing and Henry Hsia).Chapter 16 Bradycardia (Jeffrey Hsing and Paul Wand).Chapter 17 Syncope (Farheen Shirazi and Karen Friday).SECTION VI. CARDIOVACULAR DISEASE IN SPECIAL POPULATION.Chapter 18 Congenital Heart Disease (Patrick Yue).Chapter 19 Cardiology Consult and Management of Peri-Operative Complications (Azar Mehdizadeh and Stanley Rockson).Chapter 20 Management of Pre- and Post-Cardiac Surgery Patients (Mohammad Haghdoost and Ramin Beygui).SECTION VII. SPECIALIZED TESTING AND THERAPEUTICS.Chapter 21 Adult Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Anurang Gupta and Amin Al-Ahmad).Chapter 22 EKG Interpretation (Marco Perez and Victor Froelicher).Chapter 23