Acute Myocardial Infarction Venu Menon and Christopher M. Huff INTRODUCTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION This chapter focuses on the diagnosis and management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). STEMI…
Pulmonary Hypertension Matthias Dupont and W. H. Wilson Tang The diagnostic workup and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is part of cardiology as well as pulmonary practices and, due to…
Cardiovascular Medicine—Essential Pharmaceuticals Katherine M. Greenlee and Michael A. Militello Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts for nearly 50% of all death in Western societies and 25% of all death worldwide. Furthermore,…
Complications of Myocardial Infarction Olcay Aksoy and E. Murat Tuzcu Despite advances in technology and therapeutics, in-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains high. The leading cause of death…
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Matthew Cavender and Stephen G. Ellis Despite tremendous advances in the care of patients with heart disease seen over the past 30 years, coronary artery disease remains…
Pericardial Diseases Evan Lau and Allan L. Klein INTRODUCTION Pericardial disease is a small but important subset of cardiovascular illness. Clinical trial data and published society guidelines1 are sparse; board…
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE CHAPTER Aortic and Pulmonary Valve Disease Amar Krishnaswamy and Brian P. Griffin NORMAL AORTIC VALVE ANATOMY Normal aortic valves are tricuspid—with right, left, and noncoronary cusps—and have…
Radiation Safety in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Imran N. Ahmad, Kevin A. Wunderle, and Frederick A. Heupler, Jr. BACKGROUND Radiation-induced injury is a well-recognized risk associated with invasive procedures in…
CLINICAL AND PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY CHAPTER Hallmarks of Essential and Secondary Hypertension Mohamed A. Rafey, Martin J. Schreiber, Jr., and Joseph V. Nally, Jr. PATHOGENESIS OF HYPERTENSION A number of pathophysiologic…
Pacemakers and Defibrillators Khaldoun G. Tarakji and Bruce L. Wilkoff CARDIAC PACING Cardiac pacing is the only definitive therapy for symptomatic bradycardia. Whether iatrogenic, ischemic, or intrinsic conduction system disease…
