Cardiology for the primary care physician
By: edited by Joseph S. Alpert, with 70 contributors.
Contributors: Alpert, Joseph S.; Current Medicine, Inc.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Current Medicine
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Heart Diseases -- diagnosis; Heart Diseases -- therapy; Primary Health Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Evaluating the patient with cardiovascular disease; title: ch. 2. Referrals; title: ch. 3. Preoperative consultation; title: ch. 4. Interpreting noninvasive cardiac tests; title: ch. 5. Evaluation of the patient with nontraumatic chest pain; title: ch. 6. Evaluation of the patient with heart failure; title: ch. 7. Evaluation of the patient with hypotension and shock; title: ch. 8. Evaluation of the patient with palpitations and non-life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias; title: ch. 9. Evaluation of the patient with syncope; title: ch. 10. Evaluation of the patient resuscitated from cardiac arrest; title: ch. 11. Evaluation of the patient with edema; title: ch. 12. Risk factors for and prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease; title: ch. 13. The effect of exercise on the heart and the athlete's heart; title: ch. 14. Approach to the patient with hyperlipidemia; title: ch. 15. Evaluation and management of the patient with hypertension; title: ch. 16. Secondary hypertension; title: ch. 17. Pheochromocytoma; title: ch. 18. Chronic ischemic heart disease; title: ch. 19. Unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction; title: ch. 20. Q-wave myocardial infarction; title: ch. 21. Mitral stenosis and regurgitation; title: ch. 22. Mitral valve prolapse; title: ch. 23. Aortic stenosis and regurgitation; title: ch. 24. Tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease; title: ch. 25. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; title: ch. 26. Congestive cardiomyopathy; title: ch. 27. Restrictive cardiomyopathy; title: ch. 28. Infectious myocarditis; title: ch. 29. Infectious endocarditis; title: ch. 30. Pericardial disease; title: ch. 31. Congenital heart disease, including unrepaired lesions in the adult; title: ch. 32. Congenital heart disease in the adult postoperative patient; title: ch. 33. Pulmonary hypertension; title: ch. 34. Pulmonary embolism; title: ch. 35. Cardiac tumors; title: ch. 36. Nonpenetrating cardiac trauma; title: ch. 37. Diseases of the aorta; title: ch. 38. Diseases of the peripheral arteries and veins; title: ch. 39. Anticoagulation, acute and chronic: indications and methods; title: ch. 40. Cerebrovascular complications of cardiac disorders; title: ch. 41. The heart and endocrine diseases; title: ch. 42. Rheumatic diseases and the heart; title: ch. 43. The aging heart; title: ch. 44. Pregnancy and the heart; title: ch. 45. The transplanted heart; title: ch. 46. Atrial fibrillation: practical approaches.