Challenging Concepts in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cases with Expert Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-969554-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Challenging Cases

A comprehensive guide to the assessment, diagnosis, investigation and management of complex clinical scenarios in cardiovascular medicine.

This book contains a series of challenging concepts in cardiovascular medicine covering all subspecialty areas including general cardiology, intervention, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, cardiac devices, transplant medicine, epidemiology, heart disease in pregnancy and congenital heart disease.
Each case provides an in-depth review of current practice, the application of national and international guidelines and a summary of evidence from the medical literature. Data sets, investigation results and cardiac imaging give the reader a 'real-life' sense of being in the outpatient clinic, emergency room, coronary care unit or cardiac catheterisation laboratory. Each case is punctuated by 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points' and 'Landmark Trial Summaries' to enhance the learning process
alongside an 'Expert Commentary' written by internationally-renowned leaders in the field of cardiology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myat, Aung

Haldar, Shouvik

Redwood, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Kardiologie, Angiologie, Phlebologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Coronary heart disease
1: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention
2: Can a rash cause stent thrombosis?
3: Triple antithrombotic therapy after coronary stenting for chronically anticoagulated patients: too much of a good thing?
4: A closer look at lipid management following an acute coronary syndrome
The endocardium and valvular heart diease
5: Management of prosthetic heart valves in pregnancy
6: Symptomatic aortic stenosis - New horizons in management
7: Assessment and management of mitral regurgitation
8: Streptococcus mutans endocarditis - A cautionary tale
9: A word to the wise - Not all chest pain is ischaemic
The myocardium and cardiomyopathy
10: Assessment and management of the breathless patient
11: Cardiac transplantation
12: Young Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: how to decide on implantable defibrillators
13: Myocarditis - An inflammatory cardiomyopathy
14: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
15: The sparkly heart
Heart rhythm disturbances
16: Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
17: Ventricular tachycardia in a 'normal' heart
18: Dual-chamber versus single-chamber pacing: the debate continues
19: Reflex syncope: to pace or not to pace
Adult congenital heart disease
20: Cryptogenic stroke
21: Surgically-corrected tetralogy
General cardiovascular medicine
22: A case of refractory systemic hypertension
23: Syncope secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension: an ominous sign?
24: Cardiovascular pre-operative risk assessment: a calculated gamble?
25: The role of cardiac rehabilitation following cardiac surgery

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Aung Myat is currently an NIHR Clinical Research Fellow in Coronary Physiology working in The Rayne Institute at St Thomas's Hospital, King's College London. He is a Specialist Registrar in the West Midlands Deanery Cardiology Training Programme but has taken time out of programme to complete a PhD in Coronary Physiology. He has recently been co-opted as a Member of the Communication and Educaton Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Dr Shouvik Haldar is a Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Fellow at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, National Heart and Lung Institute. He graduated from Guy's, King's and St Thomas's Medical School and completeted his general medical training in the Oxford Deanery. He is currently in the North West Thames cardiology specialty training programme. He has recently been co-opted as a Member of the Communication and Education Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Dr Simon Redwood is currently Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at King's College London and Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School and trained in cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St George's Hospital, London. He obtained Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and Fellow of the
Society of Angiography and Interventions in 2004. He was previously Honorary Treasurer to the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and is an International Editorial Board Member for the journal Heart.