Textbook of cardiovascular medicine,3rd ed

Atherosclerotic biology and epidemiology of disease -- Diet and nutritional issues -- Obesity and metabolic syndrome -- Diabetes -- Lipid disorders -- Exercise and physical activity -- Hypertension: context and management -- Smoking -- Estrogen, female gender, and heart disease -- Ethanol and the heart -- Other risk factors for coronary artery disease -- Behavioral cardiology and heart disease -- Cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention -- An integrated approach to risk factor modification -- The history -- Physical examination -- Chronic stable coronary disease -- Unstable angina: ischemic syndromes -- Acute myocardial infarction: early diagnosis and management -- Acute myocardial infarction: complications -- Post-Myocardial infarction management -- Mitral valve disease -- Aortic valve disease -- Acquired tricuspid and pulmonary valve disease -- Prosthetic valve disease -- Infective endocarditis -- Diseases of the pericardium, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and diastolic dysfunction -- Pulmonary hypertension -- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- Congenital heart disease -- The heart and pregnancy -- Women and heart disease -- The elderly and aging -- End-of-life care -- The heart and other organ systems -- Endocrine systems and the heart -- Hematologic disorders and the heart -- The heart and the renal system -- Cardiac manifestations of selected neurologic disorders -- Cardiovascular manifestations of rheumatic diseases -- The heart and infectious diseases -- Substance abuse and the heart -- The athlete's heart -- Cardiac trauma -- Cardiac tumors -- Clinical pharmacology for the cardiologist -- Perioperative anesthetic considerations in noncardiac surgery for those at high risk of cardiovascular disease -- Medical economics in cardiovascular medicine -- Considerations in the design, conduct, and interpretation of quantitative clinical evidence -- Databases in cardiology -- Quality of care and medical errors in cardiovascular disease -- Principles of imaging. Plain film examination of the chest -- Exercise electrocardiography -- Transthoracic echocardiography -- Stress echocardiography -- Doppler echocardiography -- Transesophageal echocardiography -- Imaging techniques in nuclear cardiology -- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging -- Positron emission tomography -- Computed tomography of the heart -- Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias -- Genetics of arrhythmias -- Electrocardiography -- Ambulatory and signal-averaged electrocardiography and t-wave alternans -- Electrophysiologic testing -- Bradycardias: sinus nodal dysfunction and atrioventricular conduction disturbances -- Atrial fibrillation -- Atrial flutter -- Atrioventricular nodal-dependent tachycardias and preexcitation -- Ventricular tachycardia -- Sudden cardiac death and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators -- Sudden cardiac death in the young: the impact of inherited cardiovascular disease -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Arrhythmias in congenital heart disease -- Syncope -- Antiarrhythmic drugs -- Catheter ablation therapy for arrhythmias -- Cardiac pacemakers -- Left ventricular dyssynchrony and cardiac resynchronization therapy-- Coronary angiography -- Cardiac catheterization and hemodynamic assessment -- Percutaneous coronary intervention -- Percutaneous cardiac procedures -- Coronary artery bypass surgery -- Approaches to the patient with prior bypass surgery -- Percutaneous valve dilatations Catheter interventions in congenital heart disease -- Global pandemic of heart failure -- Pathophysiology of the heart failure clinical syndrome -- Acute heart failure -- Chronic heart failure management -- Diagnosis and medical treatment of inflammatory cardiomyopathy -- Nonischemic cardiomyopathies -- Cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support -- surgical approaches for heart failure -- Prevention of heart failure -- General techniques in molecular cardiology -- Molecular genetics -- Genetic factors in atherosclerosis -- Genetic studies of myocardial and vascular disease -- Gene therapy -- Myocyte structure and function -- Signal transduction pathways of the heart -- Molecular basis of heart development -- Stem cell therapy for ischemic heart disease -- The biology of restenosis -- Therapeutic angiogenesis -- Diseases of the pulmonary vasculature -- Diseases of the aorta -- Noninvasive assessment of peripheral vascular disease -- Cerebrovascular disease -- Disease of peripheral vessels -- Renal artery disease --