David E. Mohrman, Lois Jane Heller 2018 In this our final edition as primary authors of this text, we have continued our penchant of focusing on the big picture of how and why the cardiovascular system operates as it does. Our firm belief is that to evaluate the importance and consequences of specific details it is essential to appreciate […]

Patricia M. Carrascosa · Carlos M. Capuñay Alejandro Deviggiano Gastón A. Rodríguez-Granillo Editors 2019 In the past few decades, cardiac CT and MRI have rapidly shifted from appealing research tools, to adjuvant diagnostic strategies, and ultimately to a fundamental role in a wide range of ischemic and nonischemic diseases. In parallel, structural heart disease, closely related to […]

Louis Boyer, Pascal Guéret 2013  

PHILIPPE PERLOT 2013 La maladie coronaire constitue un véritable fléau qui affecte en France plus de trois millions de personnes. Son coût social, surtout lié à l’invalidité, s’élève à plusieurs milliards d’euros par an. Philippe Perlot, qui a été mon élève, a réussi le pari de décrire en termes clairs dans ce petit livre la clinique, les explorations récentes […]

Brian Olshansky Mina K. Chung Steven M. Pogwizd Nora Goldschlager 2017 Arrhythmia Essentials is a comprehensive, yet practical handbook that provides an approach to patients who have cardiac arrhythmias, including those arrhythmias that occur in specific clinical settings. The book is meant to be used to help assess and manage patients with virtually all arrhythmias and related symptoms and […]

Catherine M. Otto 2018 Echocardiography is an integral part of clinical cardiology, with important applications in diagnosis, clinical management, and decision making for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. In addition to examinations performed in the echocardiography laboratory, ultrasound imaging is now used in many other clinical settings, including the emergency department, coronary care unit, intensive care […]

Andrea Montalto Antonio Loforte Francesco Musumeci Thomas Krabatsch Mark S. Slaughter Editors 2017 End-stage acute and chronic heart failure refractory to maximal pharmacological therapy carries a poor chance of survival for patients unless they undergo heart transplantation. Heart transplantation is restricted by age and comorbidities to a small group of patients, and the actual donor’s shortage does not meet properly the demand […]

Gilbert Habib Editor 2016 Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Imaging, Therapy, and Prevention An up-to-date textbook on infective endocarditis is missing and sorely needed. With this book, we hope to have supplied precisely this. Although infective endocarditis is a cardiac disease that has been known to us for a very long time, it also is an ever-changing disease, with completely varying […]