Cardiovascular Therapeutics: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, Text with CD-ROM by Elliott M. Antman

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Synopsis

This companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease equips you with all of today's most effective therapeutic guidelines and management solutions for the full range of heart disease patients. It reflects the most recent standards for drug management as well as the latest in new technologies. Reorganized to mirror your changing practice, each cardiovascular-problem-based section offers a chapter on pharmacologic treatment (with a minimum of pathophysiology)...a chapter on catheter-based or minimally invasive interventions...and a discussion of surgical options. You'll also find a brand-new chapter on gene therapy and stem cell therapy, plus new chapters on many other rapidly developing areas of practice. The result is an outstanding single-volume source for state-of-the-art, clinically oriented guidance on both common and unusual areas of cardiovascular treatment.

• Facilitates the decision-making process clinicians face when choosing among various cardiovascular therapeutic options.
• covers the latest concepts in pathophysiology, evaluation, and management of patients with cardiovascular disorders

• Addresses pharmacological, interventional, and surgical management approaches for each type of cardiovascular disease, putting advice on the full range of therapeutic options at your disposal.
• Keeps you current with brand-new chapters on gene therapy and stem cell therapy * unstable and chronic stable angina * management of unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction * devices for heart failure and arrhythmias * prevention of ischemic disease * the regulatory approval process for new cardiovascular drugs and devices * and more.
• Delivers afully revised section on "Heart Failure" that explores cardiac resynchronization therapy, surgical interventions, ambulatory management, hospital management, and cardiac transplantation and circulatory support devices.
• Offers a completely updated section on "Other Cardiovascular Conditions" that addresses issues such as pharmacologic treatment of cardiovascular disease during pregnancy * care for adults with congenital heart disease * treatment of primary pulmonary hypertension * prevention and treatment of infective endocarditis * treatment of pericardial disease * and rehabilitation of the patient with cardiovascular disease.
• Reflects a new emphasis on the role of diet and exercise in the management of cardiovascular problems in conformity with ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines.

Annotation

"This classic has been revised to include the contributions of 22 new authors on the principles of cardiovascular, molecular, and cellular biology, the genetics of cardiovas- cular disease, heart disease in women, and much more." Appropriate for: Cardiologists, Cardiology Residents.

Booknews

Prepared to be used in tandem with by Eugene Braunwald, this work, now in its second edition, is cross referenced extensively with Braunwald's sixth edition. Rather than focusing narrowly on one or another mode of therapeutics, 55 contributed chapters deal with all modes—drugs, interventional cardiology, devices, and surgery—thus providing a resource for total patient management. Material is arranged in sections on decision-making tools, ischemic disease, heart failure, arrhythmias/conduction disturbances, hypertension, dyslipoproteinemias/atherosclerosis, thrombosis/thrombolysis, interventional cardiology/cardiac surgery, and miscellaneous conditions such as congenital heart and pericardial conditions, pregnancy and cardiovascular disease, infective endocarditis, and cardiac rehabilitation. New material includes three appendices devoted to cardiovascular drugs, intracardiac devices and catheters, and circulatory support devices. Antman (Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School) took on the task of editing this second edition (with the help of six section editors); the first edition was edited by the late Thomas Woodward Smith. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

Antman, Elliott M., MD