CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

- Practical and Board-driven content
- Covers all aspects of the topic with depth and relevance
- Concentrates on disease-based coverage: diagnosis, treatment, surgery, intervention
- Consistent chapter organization, clear design, and engaging text
- Includes user-friendly features such as tables, lists and treatment boxes
- Guidance on diagnosis and management of a full range of conditions
- Access to additional video material
Coronary Artery Disease offers today's most up-to-date, user-friendly guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment of this most important aspect of cardiovascular disease. The book provides comprehensive coverage of every aspect of coronary arterial medicine from cardiac signs and symptoms through imaging and the genetic basis for coronary disease to surgery, interventions, treatment and also to preventive cardiology.

The Editor – and a group of contributing world authorities – offer their decades of scientific and clinical experience. The reader will have all the guidance to diagnose and manage a full range of conditions in a series of textbook resources, while also having access to additional video material from the integral website.
Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Cardiac Surgery - Cardiology - Internal Medicine
Related subjects » Cardiology & Angiology - Internal Medicine - Surgery

AUTHORS & EDITORS
James T. Willerson, Texas Heart Institute, St Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Table of contents (28 chapters)
1.Coronary Artery Disease: Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis
2.Clinical Use of Serum Biomarkers in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Risk
3.Medical Management of Serum Lipids and Coronary Heart Disease
4.Coronary Artery Disease: Regulation of Coronary Blood Flow
5.Coronary Angiography
6.Diabetes and Heart Disease
7.Women and Coronary Artery Disease
8.Exercise Testing
9.The Electrocardiogram in Coronary Artery Disease
10.Echocardiographic Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease
11.Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Utilizing Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Techniques
12.Clinical Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography
13.Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Myocardium, Coronary Arteries, and Anomalous Origin of Coronary Arteries
14.Computed Tomograph Cardiovascular Imaging
15.Coronary Heart Disease Syndromes: Pathophysiology and Clinical Recognition
16.Evaluation of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaques
17.Medical Treatment of Stable Angina
18.Medical Treatment of Unstable Angina and Acute Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
19.Treatment of Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
20.Medical Treatment of Heart Failure and Coronary Heart Disease
21.Surgical Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure
22.Kawasaki Disease
23.Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and the Various Coronary Artery Disease Syndromes
24.Sudden Cardiac Death in Coronary Artery Disease
25.Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
26.Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization: Impact on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
27.Cardiovascular Genetics: Focus on Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease
28.Preventive Cardiology: The Effects of Exercise