Difficult Concepts in Cardiology

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Difficult Concepts in Cardiology provides practical guidance when treating cases in those grey areas in cardiology that arise periodically. Clear advice on the clinical managcment of these cases is presented in an easy to read style. Tvventy-eight cardiologists of international repute have contributed their expertise as they write about these difficult concepts from a personaI point of view. Up-to-date references substantiate the claims for preferred treatment. In the if I had . . section at the end of each chapter, the individual contributors indicate what decisions they would want taken if affected themselves by the topic under discussion. Consultants, speciálist trainees in cardiology and in generál medicine vvill find Difficult Concepts in Cardiology a stimulating addition to their persona! libraries.
Over 130 artworks and photographs, including echocardiograms and angiograms, illustrate the various conditions.
drug therapy for patients with angina pectoris
post-angioplasty... Tovább

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Difficult Concepts in Cardiology provides practical guidance when treating cases in those grey areas in cardiology that arise periodically. Clear advice on the clinical managcment of these cases is presented in an easy to read style. Tvventy-eight cardiologists of international repute have contributed their expertise as they write about these difficult concepts from a personaI point of view. Up-to-date references substantiate the claims for preferred treatment. In the if I had . . section at the end of each chapter, the individual contributors indicate what decisions they would want taken if affected themselves by the topic under discussion. Consultants, speciálist trainees in cardiology and in generál medicine vvill find Difficult Concepts in Cardiology a stimulating addition to their persona! libraries.
Over 130 artworks and photographs, including echocardiograms and angiograms, illustrate the various conditions.
drug therapy for patients with angina pectoris
post-angioplasty restenosis angioplasty or surgery in the over 70 s the role of PTCA in acute myocardial infarction cardiac surgery for complications of myocardial infarction asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction dyslipidaemia
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is there a benign form of ventricular tachycardia?
the cardiac investigation of transient ischaemic attacks and stroke aortic dissection peripheral vascular surgery* primary pulmonary hypertension managing resistant hypertension hypertension in pregnancy difficulties in the management of h y pertroph ic ca rd i oin yo pat h y interventional cardiology in children endocarditis

Graham Jackson FRCP, FESC is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy's Hospitál, London. He founded and was the first editor of Cardiology in Practice, and is currently the editor of the British Journal of Clinical Practice. His publications include Practical Management of Ischaemic Heart Disease (1988) Difficult Cardiology (1990), Angina (1991) and Heart Failure (second edition 1993), all published by Martin Dunitz Ltd. He has alsó written several educational booklets for the patient, chapters in medical textbooks and over 150 papers and editorials on all aspects of cardiology in leading British and American journals. His particular interests are evaluating patients with ischaemic heart disease and the rehabilitation of the cardiac patient. He is a trustee of the Peel Medical Research Trust and in 1978 was a Research Fellow at Stanford Universitv School of Medicine. ___
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