Maybe the most useful tool for making sense of the profusion of guidelines, textbooks, and medical papers, is to draw tables (which show the different entities at a glance, while underscoring both their similarities and their differences) and schematics (true to the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words). It has been the author’s intent to provide these tools to those who take an interest in Cardiology, whether as fellows, or as a matter of general medical information. The vast majority of the tables and figures are original, and, in conjunction with the concisely conceived text, aim to provide a comprehensive image of each condition, while duly reviewing the allimportant specific details. Every effort has been made to ground the text in the existing practice guidelines, as well as in the latest medical research. Inevitably, however, some of the information will already have been updated by the time the reader uses this book. The relevant medical trials and resources have been outlined both in the text, and in the suggested bibliography, to facilitate following up on the issues of interest.
It is the author’s sincere hope that this book should serve as a valuable tool in the quest for a wide-ranging, yet precise knowledge of cardiology.
1 Diagnostic Tests in Cardiology
1.1 Diagnostic Tests: Overview
1.2 Diagnostic Tests in Cardiology
1.2.1 Serum Analysis
1.2.2 The Electrocardiogram
1.2.3 X-Ray Techniques Used in Cardiology
1.2.4 MRI
1.2.5 Echocardiography
1.2.6 Nuclear Perfusion Scan (Myocardial Scintigraphy)
1.2.7 Myocardial Biopsy
1.2.8 Other Diagnostic Applications
2 Coronary Artery Disease
2.1 Atherosclerosis
2.1.1 Cardiovascular Disease: Background
2.1.2 Atherosclerosis: Definition and Mechanisms
2.1.3 Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis
2.1.4 Atherosclerosis: Diagnosis
2.1.5 Atherosclerosis: Treatment
2.2 Ischemia: Overview
2.2.1 Definition and Mechanisms
2.2.2 Clinical Manifestations
2.2.3 Ischemia Workup
2.2.4 Evaluation for Cardiovascular Risk Before Noncardiac Surgery
2.2.5 Ischemia: Therapy
2.3 Ischemia: Clinical Syndromes
2.3.1 Overview
2.3.2 Acute Coronary Syndrome
2.3.3 Stable Angina Pectoris
3 Disorders of Blood Pressure
3.1 Normal and Abnormal Blood Pressure (BP)
3.2 Mechanisms of HTN
3.2.1 Primary HTN
3.2.2 Secondary HTN
3.3 HTN: Diagnosis, Clinical Picture, and Complications
3.3.1 Measuring Methods and Pitfalls
3.3.2 Normal and Increased BP Values
3.3.3 HTN: Clinical Considerations
3.4 HTN Emergencies
3.5 HTN Diagnosis
3.6 The Treatment of HTN
3.6.1 Nonpharmacologic Therapy
3.6.2 Pharmacological Therapy
3.6.3 Strategies of Antihypertensive Therapy
3.7 Arterial Hypotension
3.7.1 General Considerations
3.7.2 Syncope
3.8 Abnormalities in Venous and Lymphatic Pressure
4 Heart Failure
4.1 The Syndrome of Heart Failure
4.1.1 Ventricular Function: General Remarks
4.1.2 Heart Failure
4.2 Cardiomyopathy
4.2.1 Dilated Cardiomyopathy
4.2.2 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
4.2.3 Restrictive CMP
4.2.4 Primary RV CMP
5 Valvular Heart Disease
5.1 General Remarks
5.1.1 Clinical Diagnosis and Work-Up of VHD
5.1.2 Treatment of VHD: General Principles
5.1.3 Rheumatic Fever
5.2 Mitral Stenosis (MS)
5.2.1 General Remarks
5.2.2 MS Diagnosis
5.2.3 MS Therapy
5.3 Mitral Regurgitation (MR)
5.3.1 Acute MR
5.3.2 Chronic MR
5.4 Aortic Stenosis (AS)
5.4.1 General Remarks
5.4.2 AS Diagnosis
5.4.3 AS Treatment
5.5 Aortic Insufficiency (AI)
5.5.1 Acute AI
5.5.2 Chronic AI
5.5.3 AI-Therapy
5.6 Tricuspid Stenosis (TS)
5.7 Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR)
5.7.1 Etiology
5.7.2 Diagnosis
5.7.3 TR-Therapy
5.8 Pulmonic Stenosis
5.8.1 Etiology
5.8.2 Diagnosis
5.8.3 PS Management
5.9 Pulmonic Insufficiency (PI)
5.10 Combined VHD
5.11 Prosthetic Valves
5.11.1 General Remarks
5.11.2 Prosthetic Valve Choice
5.11.3 Management of Prosthetic Valves
5.11.4 Management of Complications Related to Prosthetic Valves
5.12 Special Situations in Patients with VHD
5.12.1 Noncardiac Surgery
5.12.2 Pregnancy and Delivery
5.13 Infective Endocarditis (IE)
6 Rhythm and Conduction Disorders
6.1 Supraventricular Tachyarrhythmia
6.1.1 General Remarks
6.1.2 SVT: Clinical Entities
6.2 Bradyarrhythmia
6.2.1 Sinus Node Disease
6.2.2 Electrical Impulse Conduction Disturbances
6.3 Ventricular Arrhythmia
6.3.1 Clinical Entities
6.3.2 Cardiac Arrest and SCD
7 Pericardial Disease
7.1 Background
7.2 Pericardial Disease
7.2.1 Congenital Anomalies and Normal Variants
7.2.2 Pericardial Effusion
7.2.3 Pericarditis
7.2.4 Pericardial Tamponade (PT)
7.2.5 Constrictive Pericarditis (CP)
7.2.6 Pericardial Tumors
8 Cardiac Masses
8.1 Normal Anatomical Variants
8.2 Man-Made Structures
8.3 Cardiac Tumors
8.3.1 Benign Cardiac Tumors
8.3.2 Malignant Tumors
8.4 Intracardiac Thrombi
8.5 Rheumatoid Nodules
8.6 Infective Endocarditis
8.6.1 Definition and Etiology
8.6.2 IE Diagnosis
8.6.3 Therapy of IE
8.6.4 IE in Intravenous Drug Abusers
9 Physical Damage to the Heart
9.1 Cardiac Trauma
9.2 High Altitude
9.3 Radiation
9.4 Electrocution
9.5 Drowning
9.6 Thermic Injury to the Heart
9.6.1 Hypothermia
9.6.2 Hyperthermia
9.7 Decompression (“Caisson”) Disease
10 Congenital Heart Disease
10.1 CHD: General Remarks
10.1.1 Background
10.1.2 Pathophysiology
10.1.3 Clinical Picture of CHD
10.1.4 CHD Workup
10.1.5 Management
10.1.6 CHD Prognosis
10.1.7 CHD and Pregnancy
10.1.8 CHD and Physical Activity/Sports
10.1.9 CHD and Flying
10.2 CHD Syndromes
10.2.1 Introduction
10.2.2 Noncyanotic CHD with a L–R Shunt
10.2.3 CHD with R–L Shunt (Cyanotic)
10.2.4 CHD without a Shunt
10.2.5 Miscellaneous CHD
11 Angiology: Diseases of the Blood Vessels
11.1 Background
11.2 Diseases of the Aorta
11.2.1 Aortic Dissection
11.2.2 Aortic Aneurysm
11.2.3 Aortitis
11.2.4 Diseases of the Large Branches of the Aorta
11.3 Venous Disease
11.3.1 Diseases of the Head Veins
11.3.2 Diseases of the Thoracic Veins
11.3.3 Diseases of the Abdominal Veins
11.3.4 Diseases of the Limb Veins
11.4 Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
11.5 Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)
11.6 Vasculitis
11.6.1 General Remarks
11.6.2 Small-Vessel Vasculitis
11.6.3 Mid-Sized Artery Vasculitis
11.6.4 Large-Artery Vasculitis
11.7 Telangectasias
11.8 Vascular Tumor
11.8.1 Benign Tumors
11.8.2 Malignant Tumors
11.9 Diseases of the Lymphatic Vessels
11.9.1 General Remarks
11.9.2 Lymphedema
12 Heart Disease in Special Populations
12.1 Background
12.2 Heart Disease in the Nonpregnant Woman
12.2.1 General Remarks
12.2.2 Syndrome X
12.2.3 The Takotsubo Syndrome
12.2.4 Other Clinical Particularities
12.3 Heart Disease in Pregnancy
12.3.1 Physiologic Changes of Pregnancy, Relevant to the Cardiac Function
12.3.2 Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
12.3.3 Workup of Heart Disease in Pregnancy
12.3.4 Management of Heart Disease in Pregnancy
12.3.5 Fetal Risk
12.4 Male Gender
12.5 Heart Disease in Athletes
12.6 Heart Disease in the Elderly
12.6.1 Coronary Artery Disease
12.6.2 VHD
12.6.3 Arrhythmia
12.6.4 HF
12.6.5 CVA
12.7 Ethnicity and Heart Disease
12.8 HIV Infection and Heart Disease
12.9 Moderate-to-Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea
12.10 Heart Disease in Children
Product Details
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (November 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849963045
- ISBN-13: 978-1849963046
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches