Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Emily D. Szmuilowicz Merri Pendergrass Diabetes mellitus and the “metabolic syndrome” are among the most challenging problems facing health care providers today. Over 18 million Americans,…
Hyperlipidemia Frederick F. Samaha Daniel J. Rader Large epidemiologic studies such as the Framingham Heart Study (1) and the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) (2) suggest a relationship between…
Venous Thromboembolism Samuel Z. Goldhaber Venous thromboembolism (VTE) encompasses both deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). Diagnosis, management, and prevention of VTE can be standardized and adapted to…
Device Therapy in Heart Failure: Selection of Patients for ICD and CRT Eli V. Gelfand Peter J. Zimetbaum Heart failure (HF) currently represents a major public health problem in the…
Heart Failure Gregg C. Fonarow Heart failure (HF) affects 5 million Americans, and 550,000 new diagnoses are made each year (1). HF results in approximately 1 million hospitalizations, which translates…
Management of Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter Eyal Herzog Jonathan S. Steinberg Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac rhythm disturbance encountered in clinical practice, and its prevalence is…
Intensive Management of Hyperglycemia in Acute Coronary Syndrome Vera T. Fajtova The connection between diabetes and macrovascular disease is well established. In 1931 Cruikshank noted an unusually high incidence of…
Acute Aortic Syndromes Piotr Sobieszczyk Patrick T. O’Gara Nontraumatic acute aortic syndromes (AAS) comprise a group of diagnostically elusive and highly lethal, albeit relatively uncommon, disorders. Aortic dissection (AD), aortic…
Approach to the Patient with Complicated Myocardial Infarction Richard C. Becker Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are best defined as atherothrombotic disorders of the coronary arterial system. Although the underlying pathoanatomic…
Pathways for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Rashid M. Ahmad Frances Wadlington Tiffany Street James P. Greelish Jorge M. Balaguer John G. Byrne The development of “critical pathways” in coronary artery…
