Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines Updated Edition

by Katritsis, Demosthenes; Camm, A. John; Gersh, Bernard J.

• ISBN13: 9780198733324
• ISBN10: 0198733321
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-11-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Demosthenes Katritsis, Director, Dept Cardiology, Athens Euroclinic, Greece Hon Consultant Cardiologist, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK,A. John Camm, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George's University of London,Bernard J. Gersh, Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine

Dr Katritsis performs all kinds of interventional cardiology procedures such as coronary angioplasty, mitral valvuloplasty, percutaneous cardiac defects closure, and TAVI procedures. In addition, he has extensive experience in all aspects of electrophysiology such as diagnostic electrophysiology studies, catheter ablation procedures, and implantation of biventricular pacemakers and defibrillators.
Dr Katritsis runs an active, multidisciplinary research program and has published over 220 original articles in international journals on most aspects of cardiology but mainly on interventional cardiology, coronary circulation, and ablation of arrhythmias. He has participated in most European and American textbooks of cardiology with contribution of chapters.


Professor John Camm qualified in 1971. He worked at Guy's Hospital before working at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1986 he moved to St. George's Hospital Medical School in London as Professor of Clinical Cardiology (British Heart Foundation). Professor Camm was elected the Chairman of Medicine in October 1990, a post rotated from in 1995. He is now the Chairman of the Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences at St. George's University of London. His major speciality is cardiac arrhythmias but he is also much involved in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac pacemakers, risk stratification in post myocardial infarction, heart failure and cardiomyopathy patients. He has a major interest in cardiovascular safety of cardiac and non-cardiac drugs. John has given over 1500 lectures to national and international audiences, written more than 1000 peer review papers and over 250 detailed reviews. He has authored and edited numerous books.

Dr. Gersh's wide interests include the natural history and therapy of acute and chronic coronary artery disease, clinical electrophysiology and in particular atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death, the cardiomyopathies and the clinical implications of molecular genetics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac stem cell therapy and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the developing world. Dr. Gersh is the editor of 13 books and is on the editorial board of 25 journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Senior Consulting Editor), Nature Cardiovascular Medicine,and The European Heart Journal (2009 Deputy Editor). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reynolds Foundation, a Past Chairman of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, an at large member of the World Heart Federation's Scientific and Policy Initiatives Committee (SPIC).

Table of Contents

GROWN-UP CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
1. Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease: General Principles
2. Ventricular Septal Defects
3. Atrioventricular Septal Defects
4. Atrial Septal Defects
5. Patent Ductus Arteriosus
6. RVOT Obstruction
7. LVOT Obstruction
8. Coarctation of the aorta
9. Tetralogy of Fallot
10. Transposition of Great Arteries
11. Ebstein's Anomaly
12. Anomalous PV Connections, AV Malformations, Coronary and LV
13. Univentricular Heart
14. The Fontant Patient
15. Eisenmerger Syndrome
VALVE DISEASE
16. Valve Disease: General Principles
17. Mitral Stenosis
18. Mitral Regurgitation
19. Aortic Stenosis
20. Aortic Regurgitation
21. Tricuspid Valve Disease
22. Pulmonary Valve Disease
23. Prosthetic Valves
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION
24. Classification and Pathophysiology of Hypertension
25. Primary (essential) Hypertension
26. Secondary Hypertension
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
27. Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease
28. Non ST-elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
29. ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction
30. Stable Coronary Artery Disease
HEART FAILURE
31. Classification, Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
32. Chronic Heart Failure
33. Heart Failure with Preserved LVEF
34. Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
CARDIOMYOPATHIES
35. Classification of Cardiomyopathies
36. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
37. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
38. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
39. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia
40. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
41. Tachycardiomyopathy
42. Stress-induced Cardiomyopathy
43. Iron-loaded Cardiomyopathy
44. Left ventricular Non-compaction
MYOCARDITIS
45. Acute Myocarditis
PERICARDIAL DISEASE
46. Constrictive Pericarditis and Congenital Pericardial Defects
47. Acute and Relapsing Pericarditis
48. Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade
49. Constrictive Pericarditis
TACHYARRHYTHMIAS
50. Classification of Tachyarrhythmias and Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
51. Classification, Epidemiology and Presentation of Supraventricular Tachycardias
52. Atrial Tachycardias
53. Atrial Fibrillation
54. Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias
55. Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardias
56. Ventricular Arrhythmias
GENETIC CHANNELOPATHIES
57. Definitions of Inherited Arrhythmias
58. Long QT syndrome
59. Short QT syndrome
60. Brugada syndrome
61. Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
62. Early Repolarization Syndromes
BRADYARRHYTHMIAS
63. The Cardiac Conduction System
64. Sinus Nodal Disease
65. Atrioventricular and Intraventricular Blocks
66. Conduction Disease in Specific Conditions
SYNCOPE AND SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
67. Syncope
68. Sudden Cardiac Death
IMPLANTABLE DEVICES
69. Technical Issues
70. Procedural Issues and Complications of Implantable Devices
DISEASES OF THE AORTA
71. Acute Aortic Syndromes
72. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Other Conditions
73. Genetic Syndromes Associated with Thoracic Aneurysm and Dissection
74. Inflammatory Diseases Associated with Thoracic Aortic Disease
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
75. Venous Thromboembolism: Epidemiology and Aetiology
76. Pulmonary Embolism
77. Deep Vein Thrombosis
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
78. Definitions and Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension
79. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Hypertension Associated with Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities
80. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Left Heart Disease, Lung Disease, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
81. Infective Endocarditis
RHEUMATIC FEVER
82. Rheumatic Fever
ATHLETE'S HEART
83. Athlete's Heart
CARDIAC TUMORS AND PSEUDOANEURYSMS
84. Cardiac Tumors
85. Pseudoaneurysms of the Heart
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN PREGNANCY
86. Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS
87. Cardiovascular Drugs