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Hardcover, 320 pages
291 x 250 mm page size
450 colour and b/w illustrations
44 tables
ISBN: 978-1-84076-052-1
Price £85.00
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Editors:
Erling Falk, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiovascular Research, Department of Interventional
Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital (Skejby), Denmark
P. K. Shah, MD, FACC
Division of Cardiology and Artherosclerosis Research Center. Professor
of Medicine UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Division of Cardiology,
Los Angeles, California, USA
Pim J. de Feyter, MD
Director, Thorax Center Cath. Lab. University Hospital Dijkzigt,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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concise straightforward guide to the recognition and management
of ischemic heart disease written by experts from around the world.
The text is highly structured and will provide the clinically relevant
information needed by today’s practitioners. Firstly the disease
is explored covering definition, epidemiology (prevalence, incidence,
age and sex) pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnostic tests,
differential diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Also described
are diagnostic procedures including technique, indications, contraindications,
limitations and possible complications. Each topic has been illustrated
with high quality colour photographs, line diagrams and radiographs.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction, 2. Anatomy of the heart,
3. Physiology of the heart, 4. Pathophysiology of myocardial ischemia,
5. Supply-related myocardial ischemia, 6. Myocardial ischemia: morbid
demand, 7. Detection of coronary artery disease, 8. Detection of
myocardial ischemia/infarction, 9. Stable ischemic syndromes, 10.
Acute coronary syndromes, 11. Acute myocardial infarction: Complications,
12. Acute myocardial infarction: Special problems, 13. Heart attack:
Management strategy, 14. Silent myocardial ischemia, 15. Chronic
arrythmias and conduction disorders, 16. Left ventricular dysfunction,
17. Percutaneous coronary intervention, 18. Coronary artery bypass
surgery, 19. Ischemic heart disease: Special problems. 20. Primary
prevention,. 21. Genetics of IHD, 22. Guidelines and recommendations.
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