Myopericardial Diseases (eBook)

Massimo Imazio is contract professor of Physiology at the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. Beside additional teaching activity as lecturer at the postgraduate school in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Torino, he’s been involved in different Task Forces of the European Society of Cardiology. In particular, he has been coordinator of the new 2015 ESC guidelines on pericardial diseases and have been authors of several multicenter clinical trials and observational studies on pericardial diseases in the last 15 years. Moreover he is cardiologist and responsible for the myopericardial diseases, cardiomyopathies and heart failure section at the Maria Vittoria Hospital in Torino, Italy.

1 Essential anatomy and
physiology of the pericardium for clinical practice.- 2 Aetiology and
classification of pericardial diseases.- 3 Diagnosis: history, physical examination and
ECG.- 4 Multimodality imaging of pericardial and myopericardial
diseases.- 5 Cardiac catheterization
and interventional techniques.- 6 Principles
of medical therapy of pericardial diseases.- 7
Surgery for pericardial diseases.- 8 Pericardial syndromes.- 9 Acute pericarditis: management
overview.- 10 Acute pericarditis: specific aetiologies.- 11 Recurrent pericarditis.- 12 Pericarditis
associated with myocardial involvement (myopericarditis/perimyocarditis).- 13 Pericardial effusion.- 14 Cardiac tamponade.- 15
Constrictive pericarditis.- 16 Congenital abnormalities of the
pericardium and pericardial masses.- 17 Age and gender
issues in the management of pericardial diseases.- 18 Guidelines on the management of pericardial diseases.-
19 Conclusions.- 20 Perspective and unmet needs.-