Clinical Cardiology Current Practice Guidelines

by Katritsis, Demosthenes; Gersh, Bernard J.

• ISBN13: 9780199685288
• ISBN10: 0199685282
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Demosthenes Katritsis, Director, Dept Cardiology, Athens Euroclinic, Greece Hon Consultant Cardiologist, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK,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. General Principles
2. Ventricular Septal Defects
3. Atrioventricular Septal Defects
4. Atrial Septal Defects
5. Patent Ductus Arteriosus
6. Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
7. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract 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 Abnormalities
13. The Fontan Patient
14. Eisenmerger syndrome
Valve Disease
15. General Principles
16. Mitral Stenosis
17. Mitral Regurgitation
18. Aortic Stenosis
19. Aortic Regurgitation
20. Tricuspid Valve Disease
21. Pulmonary Valve Disease
22. Prosthetic Heart Valves
Hypertension
23. Classification and Pathophysiology of Hypertension
24. Primary (essential) hypertension
25. Secondary (Secondary Hypertension)
Coronary Artery Disease
26. Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease
27. Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
28. Acute Myocardial Infarction
29. Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Heart Failure
30. Classification, Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
31. Chronic Heart Failure
32. Heart failure with Preserved LVEF
33. Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
Cardiomyopathies
34. Classification of Cardiomyopathies
35. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
36. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
37. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
38. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia
39. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
40. Tachycardiomyopathy
41. Stress-induced Cardiomyopathy
42. Iron-loaded Cardiomyopathy
43. Left Ventricular Non-Compaction
Acute myocarditis
44. Acute Myocarditis
Pericardial Diseases
45. Acute and Relapsing Pericarditis
46. Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade
47. Constrictive Pericarditis and Congenital Pericardial Defects
48. Pericardial Anatomy and Congenital Pericardial Defects
Tachyarrhythmias
49. Classification of Tachyarrhythmias and Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
50. Classification, Epidemiology and Presentation of Supraventricular Tachycardias
51. Atrial Tachycardias
52. Atrial Fibrillation
53. Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias
54. Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardias
55. Ventricular Arrhythmias
Genetic Channelopathies
56. Definitions of Inherited Arrhythmias
57. Long QT syndrome
58. Short QT syndrome
59. Brugada Syndrome
60. Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
61. Early Repolarization Syndromes
Bradyarrhythmias
62. The Cardiac Conduction System
63. Sinus Nodal Disease
64. Atrioventricular and Intraventricular Block
65. Conduction Disease in Specific Conditions
Sync and Sudden Cardiac Death
66. Syncope
67. Sudden Cardiac Death
Implantable Devices
68. Technical issues
69. Complications of Implantable Devices
Diseases of the Aorta
70. Acute Aortic Syndromes
71. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Other Conditions
72. Genetic Syndromes Associated with Thoracic Aneurysm and Dissection
73. Inflammatory Diseases Associated with Thoracic Aortic Disease
Venous Thromboembolism
74. Pulmonary Embolism
75. Deep Vein Thrombosis
Pulmonary Hypertension
76. Definitions and Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension
77. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Hypertension Associated with Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities
78. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Left Heart Disease, Lung Disease, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Infective Endocarditis
79. Infective Endocarditis
Rheumatic Fever
80. Rheumatic Fever
Athelete's Heart
81. Athelete's Heart
Cardiac Tumours and Pseudoaneurysms
82. Cardiac Tumours
83. Pseudoaneurysms of the Heart
Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
84. Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
Cardiovascular Drugs
85. Cardiovascular Drugs
Appendices