Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases, for clinicians and trainees.

Divided into 14 sections, each one covers a different type of heart disease and is further subdivided to explain the management of more specific disorders within the same disease group.

Complete sections are dedicated to diagnostic investigation and imaging techniques including electrocardiography, chest X-ray, and echocardiography.

The text is further enhanced by more than 370 clinical images, flowcharts and tables to assist learning and provide quick reference to key facts.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases
Covers many different types of heart disorder
Provides thorough discussion on diagnostic imaging and investigation techniques
Highly illustrated with more than 370 clinical images, flowcharts and tables

Contents:

Section A: Rheumatic Heart Disease
Section B: Continuous Murmur
Section C: Congenital Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction
Section D: Fallot's Physiology
Section E: Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease with Continuous Murmur
Section F: Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease: Management Issues
Section G: Unequal Pulse
Section H: Constrictive Versus Restrictive Physiology
Section I: Left to Right Shunt
Section J: Right Ventricular Outflow Obstruction
Section K: Electrocardiography
Section L: X-Ray Chest
Section M: Echocardiography
Section N: Hemodynamic