Main description:

This book provides a concise and thorough screening of all the chapters of cardiology in a readily accessible outline format. It is based mainly on the Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, edited by Eugene Braunwald, and The Heart, edited by J Willis Hurst. To be more comprehensive, questions and answers from the Textbook of The Clinical Recognition of Congenital Heart Disease, by J Perloff, and Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography, by William Grossman, are also included.

Contents:

Cardiac Anatomy and Cardiac Embryology

Cardiac Physiology

Clinical Cardiology

EKG and Exercise Testing

Cardiac Radiology

2D Echocardiography

Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography

Congestive Heart Failure

Hypertension

Atherosclerosis and CAD

Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD)

Valvular Disease

Cardiomyopathy

Acquired Disease of Infants and Childhood

Congenital Heart Disease

Cardiac Arrhythmia, Pacing and Electrophysiology

Pericardial Disease

Collagen Disease and Heart

Cardiac Tumor

Cardiac Trauma

Cardiovascular Related Disorders

Cor pulmonale/Pulmonary Embolism

Aortic Disease

Preventive Cardiology.