Blueprints cardiology

• Other Authors: Awtry, Eric (Editor), Jeon, Cathy (Editor), Ware, Molly G. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. Blackwell Pub. 2006
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Blueprints
• Subjects: Heart Diseases > Handbook; Cardiology > Handbook
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The Second Edition of Blueprints Cardiology covers the essentials that students need to know on cardiology and internal medicine rotations and while preparing for the USMLE. The thoroughly updated Second Edition features coverage of the most common conditions encountered on the wards.Features includ...

Table of Contents:

• History
• Physical examination of the cardiovascular system
• The electrocardiogram
• Stress testing
• Echocardiography
• Cardiac catheterization
• Diagnostic modalities for arrhythmias
• Other imaging modalities
• Coronary artery disease-pathophysiology
• Dyslipidemia
• Chronic stable angina
• Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
• ST-elevation myocardial infarction
• Complications of myocardial infarction
• Cardiovascular hemodynamics
• Mechanisms of heart failure
• Clinical manifestations and treatment of heart failure
• Myocarditis
• The cardiomyopathies
• Mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis
• Tachyarrhythmias
• Bradyarrhythmias (bradycardia and heart block)
• Syncope
• Sudden cardiac death
• Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
• Rheumatic fever
• Disorders of the aortic valve
• Disorders of the mitral valve
• Infective endocarditis
• Prosthetic heart valves
• Pericarditis
• Cardiac tamponade
• Constrictive pericarditis
• Hypertension
• Peripheral arterial disorders
• Diseases of the aorta
• Carotid arterial disease
• Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolic disease
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Preoperative cardiac evaluation
• Congenital heart disease
• Pregnancy and cardiovascular disease
• Traumatic heart disease
• Cardiac tumors.