Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting

Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD, FAAFP, FAHA, FACC Dr. Toth is the Director of Preventive Cardiology at the Sterling Rock Falls Clinic in Sterling, IL. He is has authored and coauthored over 100 scholarly articles and chapters. He is also a visiting Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Christopher P. Cannon, MD, FACC Dr. Cannon is a Senior Investigator for the TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A prominent figure in the field with an outstanding body of book and journal article publications, he is also the Series Editor for the book series Contemporary Cardiology published by Humana Press.

I. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

1. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Characterization of Atherosclerotic Disease Risk Factors
Kevin C. Maki and Martyn R.Rubin

2. Atrial Hypertension
Daniel A. Duprez

3. Management Dyslipidemia
Peter P. Toth

4. Obesity and Therapeutic Approaches to Weight Loss
Robert F. Kushner

5. Inflammatory Markers and Novel Risk Factors
Stephen J. Nicholls

6. Deciphering Cardiovascular Genomics and How They Apply to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Kiran Musunuru

7. The Metabolic Syndrome: 2009
Charles Reasner

8. Chronic Kidney Disease in the Primary Care Setting
Matthew R. Weir and Miguel Portocarrero

II. Coronary Artery Disease

9. Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia
Joshua M. Kosowsky and Calvin Huang

10. Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Ali Mahajerinand and Eli V. Gelfand

11. ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Eric R. Bates and Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

12. Coronary Artery Stenting
Eric A. Heller and George D. Dangas

13. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Ramanan Umakanthan, Nataliya V. Solenkova, Marzia Leacche, John G. Byrne, and Rashid M. Ahmad

14. Cardiac Rehabilitation
William E. Kraus

III. Peripheral Forms of Venous and Arterial Disease

15. Carotid Artery Disease
Andreas Kastrup

16. Peripheral Arterial Disease
Jay Giri and Emile R. Mohler, III

17. Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
Adam C. Schaffer and Sylvia C. W. McKean

18. Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale
Mary P. Mullen and Michael Landzberg

19. Diagnosis and Management of Ischemic Stroke
Aslam M. Khaja

20. Aortic Aneurysms
Irfan Hameed, Eric M. Isselbacher, and Kim A. Eagle

21. Erectile Dysfunction
Thorsten Reffelmann and Robert A. Kloner

IV. Cardiac Disease

22. Valvular Heart Disease
Garrick C. Stewart and Patrick T. O'Gara

23. Pericardial Diseases
Fidencio Saldana and Leonard S. Lilly

24. Common Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias
Blair Foreman

25. Evidence-based Management of the Patient with Congestive Heart Failure
Nicholas W. Shammas

V. Cardiac Imaging

26. Coronary Calcium Scoring
Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Dalton McLean, Stamatios Lerakis, and Paolo Raggi

27. Cardiac Computed Tomography
Patrick Donnelly and Udo Hoffmann

28. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
David Carballo, Judith L. Meadows, Otavio Coelho, and Raymond Y. Kwong