Cardiovascular Medicine (eBook)

Introduction: Cardiac Signs and Symptoms and Selected Noninvasive Diagnostic Methods: Anatomy of the Heart.-The History and Physical Examination.-Electrocardiography.-Principles of Chest Radiography.-Echocardiography.-Nuclear Imaging.-Magnetic Resonance Imaging.-Non-Invasive Diagnostic Modalities/Multislice Computed Tomography, EBCT, Spinal CT.-Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult: Anatomic Abnormalities.-Pathophysiology, Clinical Recognition, and Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease.-Echocardiography in the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease.-Interventional Therapy.-Surgical Treatment.-Valvular Heart Disease: Anatomic Abnormalities.-Aortic Valve Disease.-Pulmonary and Tricuspid Valve Disease.-Mitral Valve Disease.-Rheumatic Fever.-Infective Endocarditis.-Cardiac Catheterization.-Echocardiography and Doppler Evaluation.-Magnetic Resonance Imaging.-Percutaneous Approaches to Valvular Heart Disease/Valvular Repair and Replacement.-Surgical Treatment.-Coronary Artery Disease: Anatomic Abnormalities and Pathogenesis.-Inflammation, CRP, and Vulnerable Plaques.-Vulnerable Plaque/Surrogate Markers.-Biomarkers of Inflammation as Surrogate Markers in Detection of Vulnerable Plaques and Vulnerable Patients.-Global Differences in Atherosclerosis.-Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow.-Pathophysiology and Clinical Recognition of Acute Coronary Artery Disease Syndromes.-Silent Ischemia.-Coronary Disease in Women.-Exercise Testing.-Coronary Angiography.-Echocardiography.-Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Utilizing Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Techniques.-Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography.-Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Angiography/Vulnerable Plaque.-Medical Treatment of Stable Angina.-Medical Treatment of Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.-Treatment of Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.-Kawasaki Disease.-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Stable Angina Pectoris.-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Unstable Coronary Artery Disease.-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction.-Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents.-Surgical Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease.-Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Impact on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.-Cardiac Rehabilitation.-Basic Aspects of Myocardial Function, Growth, and Development: Cardiac Development: Toward a Molecular Basis for Congenital Heart Disease.-Fuels for the Heart.-Cardiac Hypertrophy: Physiologic and Clinical Considerations.-Regulation of Cardiac Contraction and Relaxation.-Clinical Abnormalities of Cardiac Relaxation.-Myocardial Disease: Anatomic Abnormalities.-Dilated Cardiomyopathy.-Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.-Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.-Other Cardiomyopathies.-Myocarditis.-Cardiac Catheterization.-Echocardiography.-Pathophysiology and Clinical Recognition of Heart Failure.-The Medical Management of Heart Failure.-Heart Transplantation: Indications, Outcome, and Long-Term Complications.-Heart Transplantation: Pathogenesis, Immunosupression, and Diagnosis and Treatment of Rejection.-Surgical Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure.-Pericardial Disease: Anatomical Abnormalities.-Etiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Recognition, and Treatment.-Vascular Disease: Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Differentiated Vascular Smooth Muscle.-Circulatory Regulation: Basic Considerations.-Circulatory Regulation: The Role of Vascular Remodeling.-Vascular Endothelial Cell Function and Thrombosis.-Atherosclerosis: Pathologic Anatomy.-Atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis, Morphology, and Risk Factors.-Detection of Subclinical Disease.-Diseases of the Aorta.-Aneurysms of Systemic Arteries.-Peripheral and Renal Vascular Diseases.-Venous Disease.-Angiogenesis.-Carotid Interventions.-Interventional Procedures for Treatment of