Author(s): Peter Mills
Publisher: BMJ Books
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 275
Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
ISBN 0727917641......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 4
SECTION I: CORONARY DISEASE......Page 10
1 Carotid artery surgery for people with existing coronary artery disease......Page 12
2 The “no-reflow” phenomenon: basic science and clinical correlates......Page 17
3 Screening relatives of patients with premature coronary heart disease......Page 24
4 Acute myocardial infarction: reperfusion and treatment......Page 29
5 Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery......Page 37
6 Management of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction......Page 43
SECTION II: HEART FAILURE......Page 50
7 Cardiac transplantation......Page 52
8 The need for palliative care in the management of heart failure......Page 60
9 Exercise testing in the assessment of chronic congestive heart failure......Page 65
SECTION III: CARDIOMYOPATHY......Page 72
10 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: management, risk stratification, and prevention of sudden death......Page 74
SECTION IV: VALVE DISEASE......Page 82
11 Timing of mitral valve surgery......Page 84
12 The medical management of valvar heart disease......Page 91
13 Choice of heart valve prosthesis......Page 97
SECTION V: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY......Page 104
14 Which patient should be referred to an electrophysiologist: supraventricular tachycardia......Page 106
15 Arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease......Page 112
16 Quality of life and psychological functioning of ICD patients......Page 119
17 Novel mapping techniques for cardiac electrophysiology......Page 125
18 Treatment of atrial fibrillation......Page 133
19 Patients with ventricular arrhythmias: who should be referred to an electrophysiologist?......Page 139
SECTION VI: CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE......Page 146
20 Heart failure in the young......Page 148
21 Sudden death in children and adolescents......Page 153
22 Pulmonary hypertension in the young......Page 159
SECTION VII: IMAGING TECHNIQUES......Page 166
23 Understanding coronary artery disease: tomographic imaging with intravascular ultrasound......Page 168
24 Role of echocardiography in acute coronary syndromes......Page 174
25 Doppler echocardiographic assessment of valvar regurgitation......Page 181
26 Cardiovascular and coronary risk estimation in hypertension management......Page 190
SECTION IX: GENERAL CARDIOLOGY......Page 198
27 Anaesthesia and the cardiac patient: the patient versus the procedure......Page 200
28 Myocardial molecular biology: an introduction......Page 206
29 Heart disease, guidelines, regulations, and the law......Page 216
30 Apoptosis in the cardiovascular system......Page 224
31 To whom do the research findings apply?......Page 232
32 Management of Marfan syndrome......Page 237
33 Development and structure of the atrial septum......Page 244
34 Arteriosclerotic renal artery stenosis: conservative versus interventional management......Page 251
35 Effect of partial compliance on cardiovascular medication effectiveness......Page 256
36 Myotonic dystrophy and the heart......Page 260
INDEX......Page 266
Citation Index......Page 274
