Main description:

Here is a practical guide giving you systematic strategies for correctly diagnosing heart disease. The emphasis is on the patient's history and the physical examination, the two cornerstones of medical diagnosis. These are correlated with knowledge of the natural history of disease and the physical findings of subsequent examination techniques. The role of current examination technology - both invasive and noninvasive - is discussed. Important advances in the field, including procedures such as echocardiography, transesophageal probe, exercise electrocardiography, nuclear ventriculography and magnetic resonance imaging, are taken into consideration. The book covers all major heart diseases and is liberally illustrated.

Contents:

1 The History and Cardiac Diagnosis.- 2 Clues to Cardiac Diagnosis from the General Examination.- 3 Precordial Palpation and Auscultation.- 4 Systolic Murmurs and Innocent Murmurs.- 5 Diastolic Murmurs.- 6 Continuous Murmurs.- 7 Examination of Veins and Arteries.- 8 Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult.- 9 Congestive Heart Failure.- 10 Systemic Hypertension: Diagnostic Implications.- 11 Aortic Insufficiency.- 12 Aortic Stenosis.- 13 Mitral Stenosis and Left Atrial Myxoma.- 14 Mitral Valvular Insufficiency.- 15 Mitral Valve Prolapse.- 16 Tricuspid Valve Disease.- 17 Angina Pectoris.- 18 Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 19 Cardiomyopathy.- 20 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- 21 Chronic Cor Pulmonale.- 22 Pulmonary Embolism.- 23 Pericardial Diseases.- 24 Bradyarrhythmias.- 25 Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter.- 26 Cardiac Arrhythmias: Premature Beats and Paroxysmal Tachycardias.- 27 Aortic Diseases.- 28 Hyperdynamic States.- 29 Syncope.- 30 Infective Endocarditis.