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SECTION 1: ATHEROSCLEROSIS & PREVENTION

Section Editor: David Waters

Editor: Michael Crawford

1 Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, Hansson, Goran and Nilsson, Jan
2 Genetics, Schunkert, Heribert
3 Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Disease, Waters, David
4 Assessment of cardiac risk, Hobbs, Richard
5a Special Problems in the Prevention of Cardiac Disease: Diabetes mellitus type 2, Davis, Warren and Brown, W. Virgil
5b Special Problems in the Prevention of Cardiac Disease: Menopausal women, Davis, Warren and Brown, W. Virgil
5c Special Problems in the Prevention of Cardiac Disease: Nontraditional risk factors for coronary disease, Waters, David
6 Therapeutic approaches to the diabetic patient, Sweeney, Mary Ellen
7 Physical activity and the cardiovascular system, Maniu, Calin and
Fletcher, Gerald
8 Therapy of hyperlipidemia, Mosca, Lori and Waters, David
9a Special Problems in Hyperlipidemia Therapy: Child with hypercholesterolemia, Davis, Warren and Brown, W. Virgil
9b Special Problems in Hyperlipidemia Therapy: Transplant patient, Davis, Warren and
Brown, W. Virgil
9c Special Problems in Hyperlipidemia Therapy: Hypercholesterolemia in the elderly, Davis, Warren and Brown, W. Virgil
9d Special Problems in Hyperlipidemia Therapy: Elevated lipoprotein, Davis, Warren and Brown, W. Virgil

NON CARDIAC VASCULAR DISEASES

10 Arterial diseases of the limbs, Fagrell, Bengt
11 Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke and Dementia, Miia Kivipelto, Babak Hooshmand, and alina Solomon
12 Thoracic aorta disease, Wernly, Jorge and Martinez, Jose
13 Abdominal aortic aneurysms, Shalhoub, Joseph and Franklin, Ian
14 Venous disease, Lee, Agnes
15 Surgery for vascular disease, Sillesen, Henrik
16a Special Problems in Vascular Disease: Compromise of an Internal Thoracic Artery to Coronary Artery Graft by Subclavian Artery Disease, Crawford, Michael
16b Special Problems in Vascular Disease: Localized Lymphedema, Crawford, Michael

SECTION 2: ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE

Section Editors: Erling Falk and Prediman K. Shah

Editor: Michael Crawford

17 Physiology of coronary circulation, Feigl, Eric and Schaper, Wolfgang
18 Coronary artery anomalies, Taylor, Allen and Virmani, Renu
19 Pathophysiology of myocardial ischemia, Shah, Prediman and Falk, Erling
20 Non-invasive diagnosis of ischemic heart disease, Bourque, Jamieson and Beller, George
21 Invasive diagnosis of ischemic heart disease, Fearon, William

STABLE CORONARY SYNDROMES

22 Chronic stable angina pectoris, Uhadani, Udho
23 Variant angina pectoris, Kaski, Juan Carlos and Espliguero, Ramon Arroyo
24 Microvascular angina pectoris and cardiac syndrome X, Botker, Hans Erik
25 Asymptomatic myocardial ischemia, Deedwania, Prakash
26a Special Problems in Myocardial Ischemia: Diagnostic procedures in stable patients with symptoms suggestive of myocardial ischemia, Hecht, Harvey
26b Special Problems in Myocardial Ischemia: Viagra, sexual activity and the cardiac patient, Abrams, Jonathan
26c Special Problems in Myocardial Ischemia: The Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Being Considered for Renal Transplant, Tunuguntula, Anuradha and Rao, Rajni

Acute Coronary Syndromes

27 Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Ischemia/Infarction, Halim, Sharif; Newby, Kristin; and Ohman, E. Magnus
28 Pre-hospital phase of acute coronary syndrome, Terkelsen, Christian Juhl
29 In-hospital phase of unstable angina and non-STEMI, Wallentin, Lars; Lindal, Bertil; and Siebahn, Agneta
30 Subacute in-hospital phase of ST segment elevation MI, Das, Jayanta and Kaul, Sanjay
31 Complications of acute myocardial infarction, Cercek, Bojan and Shah, Prediman
32 Surgery for the complications of myocardial infarction, Ghaly, Aziz and Fontana, Gregory
33 Post-hospital phase of an acute coronary syndrome, Hass, Emily and Smith, Sidney
34a Special Problems in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Right ventricular infarction, Clemmensen, Peter and Jacobsen, Michael Dilou
34b Special Problems in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Acute myocardial Infarction and normal coronary arteries, Clemmensen, Peter; Jacobsen, Michael Dilou; and Grande, Peer
34c Special Problems in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Nonreperfused acute myocardial infarction after thrombolytic therapy, Clemmensen, Peter and Jacobsen, Michael Dilou
34d Special Problems in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Suspected myocardial ischemia in the emergency department, Goldstein, James A.
34e Special Problems in Acute Coronary Syndromes: Tako-Tsubo Syndrome, Singh, David and Shah, Prediman

Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of IHD

35 Catheter based techniques to treat ischemic heart disease, de Feyter, Pim
36 Surgery for ischemic heart disease, El Sherif, Amgad and Zehr, Kenton
37a Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: Left Main Stenting, Ragosta, Michael
37b Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: Chronic Total Occlusion, Ragosta, Michael
37c Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: Saphenous vein graft interventions, Ragosta, Michael
37d Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: Percutaneous intervention of cardiac allograft vasculopathy Ragosta, Michael
37e Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: In-stent restenosis, Ragosta, Michael
37f Special problems in non-pharmacologic therapy: Acute and Late Stent Thrombosis, Kedia, Gautam and Kaul, Sanjay

SECTION 3: HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE

Section Editors: George L. Bakris and Gregory Y H Lip

Editor: John DiMarco

38 Etiology and pathogenesis of systemic hypertension, Pimenta, Eduardo; Calhoun, David; and Oparil, Suzanne
39 Epidemiology of hypertension, Ueshima, H
40 Clinical recognition of hypertension, Nesbitt, Shawna; Vongpatanasin, Wanpen; and Victor, Ronald
41 Complications of hypertension: the heart, Lang, Chim; Krum, Henry; and Lip, Gregory
42 Complications of hypertension: the kidney, Sica, Domenic
43 Complications of hypertension: stroke, Robinson, Tom; Brodie, Fiona; and Manios, Efstathios
44 Non-pharmacologic Prevention and Management of Hypertension, Siani, Alfonso; Cappuccio, Francesco; and Stranges, Saverio
45 Pharmacologic treatment, Stergiou, George and Bakris, George L
46 Hypertensive crises, Grossman, Ehud and Lip, Gregory
47 Diagnosis and treatment of secondary hypertension, Martins, David and Norris, Keith
48a Difficult hypertension management issues: Hypertension and ethnicity, Lip, Gregory and Cheung, Bernard
48b Difficult hypertension management issues: Hypertension in pregnancy: pre-eclampsia, Churchill, David
48c Difficult hypertension management issues: Perioperative hypertension, Elliott, William
48d Difficult hypertension management issues: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, Khanna, Apurv and White, William
48e Difficult hypertension management issues: Diabetes and hypertension, McFarlane, Samy; Lastra, Guido; and Sowers, James
48f Difficult hypertension management issues: Resistant hypertension, Hart, Peter and Bakris, George L
48g Difficult hypertension management issues: Hypertension in the Context of Acute coronary Syndromes and Acute Coronary Interventions, Tse, HF AND Lip, Gregory

SECTION 4: CARDIAC ARRYTHMIAS

Section Editor: George Klein

Editor: John DiMarco

49 Basic cardiac electrophysiology and anatomy, Anderson, Mark and Roden, Dan
50 Antiarrythmic drugs, Pinter, Arnold and Dorian, Paul
51 Principles of catheter ablation, Haines, David
52 Syncope, Krahn, Andrew