Crawford's CARDIOLOGY now comes available as an e-dition - the best-selling reference book, packaged with a regularly-updated website, giving cardiologists the most current information available, all of the time!

CARDIOLOGY 2/E provides clinically-oriented coverage integrating basic science, diagnostic investigations, and therapeutic management, into a practical, user-friendly reference on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. A consistent format throughout parallels the clinical decision-making process to make definitive guidance easy to locate and apply. Over 2,360 illustrations, including more than 1,940 full-colour photographs, tables, and diagnostic images make techniques and concepts easy to grasp. Plus, a bound-in CD-ROM features all of the book's illustrations for use in PowerPoint presentations.

And the state-of-art CARDIOLOGY website means you're always up to date!

Consult the book's entire contents online - fully searchable
* Continuous content updates
Complete library of easily downloadable electronic images
Drug alerts and other specialty news
Links to key cardiology websites
Systemic drug questionnaires
Self-assessment tests... and more!

Features

Features succinct reviews of basic science/pathogenesis, epidemiology and risk factors, specific diagnostic techniques, diseases/arrhythmias and surgical and non-surgical therapies for each major syndrome.
Includes a unique "Special Problems" chapter in each disease section that uses clinical cases to highlight complex issues and offers practical advice on the diagnosis and management of difficult problems.
Presents over 2,360 illustrations (1,940 in full colour)





What's New

Addresses the hottest topics in the field, including coronary artery bypass grafting, management and treatment of the elderly patient, obesity, the neurologic heart and the athlete's heart.
Includes the latest non-invasive and invasive examinations, and diagnostic imaging techniques.
Discusses the most up-to-date mechanical therapies for treating heart failure.
Features a brand-new chapter on diabetes with the most current information on pathophysiology and therapy.
Offers expanded coverage of behavioural science and psychosocial and alternative therapies.
Presents many more diagrams and artwork throughout.
Includes a CD-ROM of all the book's illustrations, allowing users to create PowerPoint slides






Contents

Preface

Contributors

SECTION 1: ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND PREVENTION
1. Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis - Goran Hansson and Jan Nilsson
2. Epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases - Kjell Asplund
3. Risk factors and lifestyle interventions - Konrad Jamrozik
4. Assessment of cardiac risk - Edward Winslow
5. Special problems in the prevention of cardiovascular disease

Diabetes mellitus type 2 - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Menopausal women - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Nontraditional risk factors for coronary disease - David Waters

6. Therapeutic approaches to the diabetic patient - Mary Ellen Sweeney and David Orchard
7. Physical activity and the cardiovascular system - Calin Maniu, Thomas Flipse, Norman Patton and Gerald Fletcher
8. Therapy of hyperlipidemia - Lori Mosca
9. Special problems in hyperlipidemia therapy

Child with hypercholesterolemia - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Transplant patient - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Hypercholesterolemia in the elderly - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis
Elevated lipoprotein(a) - Virgil Brown and Warren Davis

10. Diagnosis of vascular disease - Charles Tegeler and Disya Ratanakorn

NONCARDIAC VASCULAR DISEASES
11. Arterial diseases of the limbs - Bengt Fagrell
12. Cerebral vascular diseases - Kjell Asplund and Markku Fagerlund
13. Thoracic aorta disease - Jorge Wernly
14. Abdominal aortic aneurysms - Ian Franklin and Roger Greenhalgh
15. Venous disease - Agnes Lee
16. Surgery for vascular disease - David Bergqvist
17. Special problems in vascular disease

Compromise of an internal thoracic artery to coronary artery graft by subclavian artery disease - Michael Crawford and Mark Langsfeld
Localized lymphedema - Michael Crawford and Mark Langsfeld


SECTION 2: ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
1. Physiology of coronary circulation - Eric Feigl and Wolfgang Schaper
2. Coronary artery anomalies - Allen Taylor and Renu Virmani
3. Pathophysiology of myocardial ischemia - PK Shah and Erling Falk
4. Noninvasive diagnosis of IHD - George Beller
5. Invasive diagnosis of IHD - William Kussmaul
6. Special diagnostic issues in IHD

The patient with chest pain, a positive stress test and normal coronary arteries - Jonathan Abrams
The patient with coronary artery disease and acute heart failure -Jonathan Abrams
The patient with coronary artery disease and chronic heart failure -Jonathan Abrams

STABLE CORONARY SYNDROMES
7. Chronic stable angina pectoris -Udho Thadani
8. Variant angina pectoris - Juan Kaski and Ramon Arroyo-Espliguero
9. Microvascular angina pectoris and cardiac syndrome X -
Hans Erik Botker
10. Asymptomatic myocardial ischemia - Prakash Deedwania
11. Special problems in myocardial ischemia

Management of variant angina breakthrough - Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Mangement of the nonrevascularization candidate with severe angina - Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Treatment of silent ischemia - Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Treatment of microvascular angina - Carl Pepine and Stephen Monroe
Viagra, sexual activity and the cardiac patient - Jonathan Abrams

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES
12. Diagnosis of acute myocardial ischaemia and infarction
- Allan Jaffe, Jorge Davidenko and Ian Clements
13. Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation MI -
Lars Wallentin, Bertil Lindahl and Agneta Siegbahn
14. The early phase of acute myocardial infarction - Freek Verheugt
15. Subacute in-hospital phase of ST-segment elevation MI -
Timothy Denton
16. Complications of acute MI - Bojan Cercek and PK Shah
17. Surgery for the complications of MI - Carlos Blanche
18. Post-hospital phase of an acute coronary syndrome -
Christopher Cannon and Sidney Smith
19. Special problems in acute coronary syndromes

Right ventricular infarction - Peter Clemmensen
AMI and normal coronary arteries - Peter Clemmensen and Peer Grande
Nonreperfused AMI after thrombolytic therapy - Peter Clemmensen

NON-PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT OF IHD
20. Catheter based techniques to treat IHD - Pim de Feyter
21. Surgery for IHD - Kenton Zehr and Hartzell Schaff
22. Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy

Unprotected left main coronary angioplasty -Michael Ragosta
Chronic total occlusion -Michael Ragosta
Saphenous vein graft interventions -Michael Ragosta
Percutaneous intervention of cardiac allograft vasculopathy -
Michael Ragosta
In-stent restenosis - Michael Ragosta

SECTION 3: HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE
1. Etiology and pathogenesis of systemic hypertension
- David Calhoun, M. Amin Zaman and Suzanne Oparil
2. Epidemiology of hypertension - Ivan Perry
3. Clinical recognition of hypertension - Shawna Nesbitt, Wanpen Vongpatanasin and Ronald Victor
4. Complications of hypertension: heart - Chim Lang and Greg Lip
5. Complications of hypertension: kidney - Domenic Sica
6. Complications of hypertension: stroke - John Potter
7. Nonpharmacologic treatment of hypertension - Francesco Cappuccio and Alphonso Siani
8. Pharmacologic treatment - S. Luke Kusmirek, Aris Efstratopoulos and George Bakris
9. Hypertension crises - Gareth Beevers and Greg Lip
10. Diagnosis and treatment of secondary hypertension -
David Martins and Keith Norris
11. Difficult hypertension management issues

Hypertension and ethnicity - Greg Lip and Gareth Beevers
Hypertension in pregnancy: pre-eclampsia - David Churchill
Perioperative hypertension - William Elliott
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring - William White
Diabetes and hypertension - Samy I. McFarlane and James Sowers
Resistant hypertension - Ronald Victor
Hypertension in the context of acute myocardial infarction and acute coronary interventions - Greg Lip
Concomitant therapy use in hypertension - George Bakris

SECTION 4: CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
1. Basic cardiac electrophysiology and anatomy - Mark Anderson and Dan Roden
2. Antiarrhythmic drug therapy - Paul Dorian, Wendy Lau
3. Principles of catheter ablation -David Haines
4. Syncope - Andrew Krahn, George Klein, Raymond Yee, Allan Skanes

BRADYARRHYTHMIAS
5. Sinus node dysfunction - John DiMarco
6. Atrioventricular and intraventricular conduction disorders
- Nadir Saoudi, Jean Paul Rinaldi, Manuel Imianitoff, Khelil Yaïci, Jean Marc Coutelourd, Marc Bergonzi and Phillipe Ricard
7. Cardiac pacing - Henning Rud Andersen and Jens Cosedis Nielsen
8. Special problems in cardiac pacing

Pacemaker syndrome - Mark Wood
Temporary cardiac pacing - Mark Wood
Diagnostic and surgical procedures in pacemaker patients
- Mark Wood
Pacemaker lead extraction - Mark Wood
Biventricular pacing for congestive heart failure - Mark Wood

SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS
9. Supraventricular tachycardia -Carlos Morillo
10. Atrial fibrillation - Greg Lip, Michael Mangram and John DiMarco
11. Atrial flutter and atrial tachycardia - Francis Murgatroyd
12. Pre-excitation syndromes - James Leitch, Pru Hereford Ashley and Malcolm Barlow
13. Special problems in supraventricular arrhythmias

Syncope in paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia - Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation - Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Cycle length alternation in supraventricular tachycardia -
Chin-Feng Tsai and Shi-Ann Chen
Atrial flutter - Bruce Walker
Postoperative atrial fibrillation - Bruce Walker
Atrial Fibrillation and Anticoagulation - Bruce Walker

VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS
14. Ventricular tachycardia - Martin Borggreffe, Gunther Breithardt and Christian Wolpert
15. Repolarization syndromes: Long QT, Brugada etc. -
Katherine Murray and Dan Roden
16. Sudden cardiac death - Paul LeLorier and Kevin Monahan
17. Cardiac arrest resuscitation - Jose Joglar and Rick Page
18. Surgery for cardiac arrhythmias - Patricia Bakker
19. Implantable defibrillators - Kathy Lee and Chu-Pak Lau
20. Special problems in ventricular arrhythmias

Multiple shocks from an implanted defibrillator caused by frequent episodes of ventricular tachycardia - John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Multiple shocks from an implanted defibrillator in a supra ventricular arrhythmia - John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Syncope in a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
- John Miller and Mithilesh Das
A young woman with palpitations and ventricular tachycardia
- John Miller and Mithilesh Das
Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia following anterior myocardial infarction - John Miller and Mithilesh Das

SECTION 5: HEART FAILURE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY
1. Physiology of the normal and failing heart - Helmut Drexler and Gerd Hasenfuss
2. Assessment of the patient with heart failure - Ayan Patel and Marvin Konstam
3. Acute heart failure and shock - Steven Hollenberg, Mitchell Saltzberg, Jeffrey Soble and Joseph Parrillo

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
4. Heart failure due to systolic dysfunction - Gary Francis and Wai Tang
5. Management of the patient with chronic heart failure -
Barry Massie
6. Heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction: a manifestation of diastolic dysfunction - William Gaasch and Edgar Schick
7. Arrhythmias in heart failure - Lars Eckardt, Wilhelm Haverkamp, Dirk Bocker and Gunter Breithardt
8. Surgery assist devices and cardiac transplantation for heart failure - James Young
9. Special problems in chronic heart failure

Mechanisms of exercise intolerance and exercise training
- Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats
Cardiac cachexia - Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats
Renal dysfunction in heart failure - Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats
Anemia in Heart Failure - Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats
Depression in Heart Failure - Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats
Disease Management - Kai C Wollert, Helmut Drexler and Andrew Coats

MYOCARDITIS AND CARDIOMYOPATHY
10. Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy - Heinz-Peter Schultheiss and Uwe Kuehl
11. Dilated and toxic cardiomyopathy - John O'Connell and Mohammad Akkad
12. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Perry Elliott and William McKenna and Sebastian Reith
13. Special problems in myocarditis and cardiomyopathy

Peripartum cardiomyopathy - Mohammed W. Akhter, Afshan Hameed and Uri ElKayam
Chagas' heart disease - Harry Acquatella
Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy - Harry Acquatella
Diabetic cardiomyopathy - Mitchell Saltzburg and Barry Massie

CARDIAC CONSTRICTION AND RESTRICTION
14. Restrictive and infiltrative cardiomyopathies - Naveen Pereira and William Dec Jr
15. Pericardial disease - Samer Kabbani and Martin LeWinter

RIGHT-HEART FAILURE
16. Pulmonary hypertension and intrinsic pulmonary vascular disease - Vallerie McLauchlin
17. Right heart failure and cor pulmonale - W MacNee and K Skwarski
18. Pulmonary embolism - Stavros Konstantinides and Wolfgang Kasper

SECTION 6: VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
1. Non-invasive assessment of valvular function
Otto Smiseth, Reidar Bjornerheim and Sigurd Nitter-Hause
2. Invasive assessment of valvular function - Barbara Julius, Stephan Windecker and Otto Hess
3. Rheumatic fever - Mohammed Essop and Tanvier Omar

MITRAL VALVE DISEASES
4. Mitral stenosis - John Carroll and Julie Plenge
5. Mitral regurgitation - Blase Carabello
6. Mitral valve prolapse - Richard Devereux
7. Secondary mitral regurgitation - Matthew A Romano, Iva A Smolens and Stephen F Bolling
8. Special problems in mitral valve disease

New onset atrial fibrillation in asymptomatic mitral stenosis
- Bernard Iung, Bertrand Cormier and Alec Vahanian
Echocardiography and mitral valve repair: its use in Marfan's syndrome - Bernard Iung, Bertrand Cormier and Alec Vahanian
Thromboembolic risk in mitral stenosis - Bernard Iung, Bertrand Cormier and Alec Vahanian
Mitral stenosis and pregnancy - Bernard Iung, Bertrand Cormier and Alec Vahanian
Radiation Valve Disease - Theo Meyer and Gerard Aurigemma
Vasodilators in mitral regurgitation - Bill Gaasch

9. Aortic stenosis - David Shavelle and Catherine Otto
10. Acute aortic regurgitation - Gerard Aurigemma and Theo Meyer
11. Chronic aortic regurgitation - Walter Paulus
12. Special problems in aortic valve disease

Low gradient, low output aortic stenosis - Paul Grayburn
Mild-to-moderate aortic stenosis in patients undergoing bypass surgery - Paul Grayburn
fen phen valve disease - Dr Bruce Shively

RIGHT-HEART VALVE DISEASE AND ENDOCARDITIS
13. Tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease - Theo Meyer and Dennis Tighe
14. Infective endocarditis - Jean Acar and Pierre-Louis Michel

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
15. Surgery for valvular heart disease - Christophe Acar and Pierre Theodore
16. Management of the post surgical valve disease patient
- Patrick Parrino, Aditya Kaza and John Kern
17. Special problems in the surgically treated valve disease patient

How to treat perivalvular leaks - Sandro Betocchi, Maria Angela Losi and Massimo Chiariello
Pregnancy and anticoagulants - Sandro Betocchi, Maria Angela Losi and Massimo Chiariello
Postoperative management of myocardial dysfunction in valvular surgical treatment - Sandro Betocchi, Maria Angela Losi and Massimo Chiariello

SECTION 7: CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
1. Epidemiology of congenital heart disease - Cynthia Morris
2. Embryology of congenital heart disease - Adrianna Gittenberger de Groot, Marco Deruiter, Margot Bartelings and Robert Poelmann
3. Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease - Yasuki Maeno
4. Diagnostic pathways for evaluation of congenital heart disease - Tal Geva and Jaqueline Kreutzer

CARDIAC DEFECTS
5. Atrial septal defect - Masahiro Ishii
6. Anomalous pulmonary venous connection - Samuel Ritter and Rebecca Snider
7. Ventricular septal defect - Kimberly Krabill
8. Tetralogy of Fallot and truncus arteriosus - Kazuo Momma
9. Transposition of the great arteries - Thomas Kimball
10. Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect -
Daniel Murphy and Roger Mee
11. Left heart outflow obstructions - Gautam Singh and Syamasunder Rao
12. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome - Girish Shirali and Constance Cephus
13. Ebstein's anomaly - Robin Shaughnessy
14. Pulmonary stenosis - Teiji Akagi
15. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum -
Frank Smith
16. Atrioventricular canal defects - Craig Fleishman and Gerald Marx
17. Tricuspid atresia and single ventricle - Luc Mertens and Donald Hagler

VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES
18. Patent ductus arteriosis - Dierk Redel
19. Coarctation of the aorta - Mataichi Ohkubo and
Toshihiro Ino
20. Vascular compression of the upper airways - Deane Waldman
21. Kawasaki's disease - Hirohisa Kato

MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
22. Arrhythmias in congenital heart disease - Victoria Vetter
23. Adult congential heart disease - David Celermajer
24. Special problems in adult congenital heart disease

Pregnancy in the woman with Eisenmenger syndrome
- George Pantely and Victor Menashe
Thromboembolic complications after the Fontan procedure
- George Pantely, Mark Morton and Victor Menashe
Late systemic right ventricular failure in transposition of the great arteries - George Pantely and Victor Menashe

SECTION 8: SECONDARY HEART DISEASE

SYSTEMIC DISEASES AND THE HEART
1. Chronic renal disease - Nikolaos Kaperonis and George Bakris
2. Obesity - Scott Grundy and Nicola Abate
3. The neurogenic heart - Arturo Tamayo and Vladimir Hachinski
4. Endocrinology and the heart - Sylvia Vela
5. Rheumatologic diseases - Carlos Roldan
6. AIDS - Catherine Decker, Peter Sklar and Henry Masur
7. Cardiac tumors - Colette Guiraudon
8. Hematologic disease - Stuart Hutchison and Patrick Disney
9. Neuromuscular disease - Benjamin Sanchez and Ileana Pina


CARDIAC RESPONSES TO PHYSIOLOGIC STRESS
10. Aging and geriatric heart disease - Rose Anne Kenny and Colette Seifer
11. Pregnancy in the heart disease patient - Laura Collins and Pamela Douglas
12. Athletes heart - Barry Maron
13. Psychological influences on the heart - Kristina Orth-Gomer, Margaret Chesney and Gerdie Weidner

CARDIAC RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
14. Trauma - ML Myers, A Cheung and William Sibbald
15. Radiation - Jacob Adams, Louis Constine and Stephen Lipshultz
16. High altitude - Stuart Hutchison
17. Alternative cardiovascular medical therapies - William Kostuk

CONSULT ISSUES
18. Perioperative evaluation of the cardiac patient - Michael Crawford
19. Surgery and the cardiac patient - Dennis Mangano
20. Employment and insurability -William Dafoe
21. Anticoagulation in heart disease - Michael Ezekowitz, Abhay Dhond and Pavlo Netrebko
22. Special problems for the cardiology consultant

Cocaine-induced cardiovascular disease - Paul Tanser
Munchausen's syndrome with cardiac manifestations - Paul Tanser
Behavioural modification in cardiac disease with inappropriate disability - Paul Tanser
Peripheral vascular disease as a predictor of significant coronary artery disease - Paul Tanser
Sexual dysfunction in patients with cardiac disease - Paul Tanser
Obesity and heart disease - Paul Tanser
Hypotension during hemodialysis - Michael Crawford

Index