Valvular heart disease
Subtitle: a companion to Braunwald's heart disease
By: [edited by] Catherine M. Otto, Robert O. Bonow.
Contributors: Otto, Catherine M.; Bonow, Robert O.; Otto, Catherine M.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781416058922
Subjects: Heart valves -- Diseases.; Heart Valve Diseases -- therapy.; Heart Valve Diseases -- diagnosis.; Heart Valve Diseases -- pathology.
Other titles: Braunwald's heart disease.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Valvular heart disease / Catherine M. Otto. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The burden of valvular heart disease / George A. Mensah; title: Clinical pathology of valvular heart disease / William Clifford Roberts and Jong Mi Ko; title: Cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms of valvular heart disease / Nalini Marie Rajamannan; title: Left ventricular adaptation to pressure and/or volume overload / Blase A. Carabello; title: Evaluation of valvular heart disease by echocardiography / Catherine M. Otto; title: Evaluation of valvular heart disease by cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography / David M. Shavelle; title: Evaluation of valvular heart disease by cardiac magnetic resonance and computed tomography / Mario J. Garcia; title: Basic principles of medical therapy in the patient with valvular heart disease / Catherine M. Otto; title: Aortic stenosis / Raphael Rosenhek and Helmut Baumgartner; title: Aortic regurgitation / Pilar Tornos and Robert O. Bonow; title: The bicuspid aortic valve / Alan C. Braverman and Michael A. Beardslee; title: Surgical approach to aortic valve disease / Paul Stelzer and David H. Adams; title: Percutaneous aortic valve implantation / Brad Munt; title: Rheumatic mitral valve disease / Bernard Iung and Alec Vahanian; title: Myxomatous mitral valve disease / Brian Griffin; title: Ischemic mitral regurgitation / Robert A. Levine ... [et al.]; title: Mitral regurgitation : timing of surgery / Rick A. Nishimura and Hartzell V. Schaff; title: Mitral valve repair and replacement, including associated atrial fibrillation and tricuspid regurgitation / Patrick M. McCarthy and S. Chris Malaisrie; title: Percutaneous transcatheter intervention for mitral regurgitation / Peter C. Block; title: Intraoperative echocardiography for mitral valve disease / Pravin M. Shah; title: Right-sided valve disease / Charles J. Bruce and Heidi M. Connolly; title: Infective endocarditis / Thomas M. Bashore; title: Prosthetic heart valves / Patrick T. O'Gara; title: Valve disease in children / L. LuAnn Minich ... [et al.]; title: Valvular heart disease in pregnancy / Karen Stout.