Principles and Practice of Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics

Foreword: Professor Eric Topol, San Diego, USA

Introduction: Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics, Dhavendra Kumar and Perry Elliott

Section A: General aspects of cardiovascular genetics
1. Development of the heart, Robert H. Anderson, Nigel Brown, Antoon F. M. Moorman
2. Molecular basis of cardiovascular development, Jamie Bentham, Shoumo Bhattacharya
3. Classification of inherited cardiovascular conditions, Dhavendra Kumar
4. Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, Teri A. Manolio and Elizabeth G Nabel
5. Cytogenetic testing in cardiovascular genetics, Helen Cox
6. Molecular diagnosis in cardiovascular genetics, Karen Maresso, Michael Harrison, Ulrich Broeckel and Ian Frayling
7. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in cardiovascular genetics , James Moon
8. Ultrasound imaging in cardiovascular genetics, Denis Pellerin, Diala Khraiche

Section B: Specific cardiovascular genetic disorders
9. Congenital cardiovascular malformations, Judith Goodship and Christopher Wren
10. Malformation syndromes with heart disease, Michael A. Patton
11. Marfan syndrome and related disordersm, John C. S. Dean, Sally Davies, Bart Loeys
12. Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, Susan Drinkwater, Dhavendra Kumar, Peter Taylor
13. Hypertrophic, dilated and restrictive cardiomyopathies, Juan Pablo-Kaski, Perry M. Elliott
14. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, Petros Syrris, William J. McKenna
15. Ventricular non-compaction, Girish Dwivedi, Ibrar Ahmed, Zaheer Yousef, Michael Frenneaux
16. Molecular genetics of arrhythmias, Seo-Kyung Chung. Jonathan R. Skinner, Mark I. Rees
17. Long QT syndrome and cathecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, Tom Rossenbacker, Carlo Napolitano, Sylvia G. Priori
18. Acquired repolarization disorders, Elijah R. Behr, John Camm
19. Brugada syndrome, Pieter G. Postema, Pascal F.H.M. van Dessel, Arthur Wilde
20. Inherited conduction disease and familial AF, Calum A. MacRae
21. Familial hypercholesterolemia, Ian F. W. McDowell, S. Gaye Hadfield, Steve E. Humphries
22. Genetics of Coronary artery disease, Yoshiji Yamada, Sahoko Ichihara, Tamotsu Nishida
23. Genetics of essential hypertension, Mark Caulfield, Stephen J. Newhouse and Patricia B. Munroe
24. Stroke, Yoshiji Yamada, Sahoko Ichihara, Tamotsu Nishida
25. Pulmonary arterial hypertension, J.R. Thompson, R.C. Trembath
26. Heart and Metabolic disease, Mike Champion, Maureen Cleary
27. Heart and neuromuscular disease, John P. Bourke and Kate M.D. Bushby
28. Heart and genetic collagen disorders, Mike Pope
29. Heart and inherited disorders of hemoglobin, Malcolm J Walker and Constantinos O'Mahony
30. Familial Amyloidoses and the Heart, Claudio Rapezzi, Candida Cristina Quarta, Letizia Riva, Fabrizio Salvi, Paolo Ciliberti, Simone Longhi, Elena Biagini
31. Cardiac involvement in mitochondrial disease, Patrick F. Chinnery, Grainne Gorman
32. Inherited cardiac tumors, D. Mark Davies

Section C: Management of cardiovascular genetic diseases
33. The sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, Pier D. Lambiase
34. Cardiovascular pharmacogenomics, Martin C. Michel and Dieter Rosskopf
35. Stem cell therapy in cardiovascular medicine, Shinsuke Yuasa, Keiichi Fukuda
36. Genetic counseling in cardiovascular genetics, Ivan Macciocca
37. Social and ethical issues in cardiovascular genetics, Angus Clarke and Siv Folkstuen
38. Forensic pathologist and genetic cardiovascular disease: A UK perspective, Stephen Leadbeatter
39. Provision of clinical cardiovascular genetic services, Paul Brennan