Contents:

FUNDAMENTALS: Essential Cardiac Physiology Including Flow Volume Loops / Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology / Cardiac Biochemistry / Essential Normal Coronary Artery Anatomy Including Variants / Important Cardiac Physical Findings / Statistics, Epidemiology and Trial Design / Essential Cardiac Pathology Including Cardiac Tumors / The Science of Cardiac Ultrasound Imaging / Nuclear Primer

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: Chest Pain Evaluation / Coronary Artery Disease: Demographics and Incidence / Fundamentals of Atherosclerosis / Hyperlipidemia / Stable Angina and Surgical Revascularization Strategies / Unstable Coronary Syndromes / Acute Myocardial Infarction / Thrombolytic Therapy / Percutaneous Intervention / Risk Stratification and Post-MI Therapy / Complications of MI / Primer of Hemodynamic Measurements / ECG Stress Testing / Nuclear Stress Testing / Stress Echocardiography

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE: Aortic and Pulmonary Valve Disease / Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease / Infective Endocarditis / Prosthetic Valves

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY: Pathophysiology of Congestive Heart Failure / Medical Treatment of Heart Failure / Heart Transplantation / Devices in Heart Failure / Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy / Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy / Pulmonary Hypertension / Diastolic Heart Failure / The Chest X-Ray / MRI/CT

AORTA PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE Diseases of the Aorta / Peripheral Vascular Disease / Cerebrovascular Disease

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: Common Cyanotic and Acyanotic Abnormalities / Essential Echocardiographic Images in Adult Congenital Heart Disease / Genetics and Cardiovascular Medicine

HYPERTENSION/PULMONARY DISEASE: Hypertension / Selected Topics in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine for an Intensive Review of Cardiology

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY: Twelve-Lead Electrocardiography / Sudden Cardiac Death and Ventricular Tachycardia / EP Testing Including His Bundle Electrograms / Supraventricular Rhythm Disturbances / SVT vs VT / Pacemakers and Defibrillators / Syncope

MISCELLANEOUS/PERICARDITIS: Pericardial Disease / Effects of Systemic Disease on the Heart and Cardiovascular System / Pregnancy and Heart Disease / Gender and Heart Disease / Non-cardiac Surgery Preoperative Evaluation

PHARMACOLOGY: Antiarrhythmic Drugs / Essential Pharmacodynamics / Cardiovascular Medicine: Essential Pharmaceuticals / Cardiac Drug Interactions