Cardiology for the primary care physician /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alpert, Joseph S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Current Medicine LLC, [2005]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Evaluating the patient with cardiovascular disease
  • Referrals
  • Preoperative consultation
  • Using and interpreting noninvasive cardiac tests
  • Evaluation of the patient with nontraumatic chest pain
  • Evaluation of the patient with heart failure
  • Evaluation of the patient with hypotension and shock
  • Evaluation of the patient with palpitations and non-life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias
  • Evaluation of the patient with syncope
  • Evaluation of the patient resuscitated from cardiac arrest
  • Evaluation of the patient with edema
  • Risk factors for and prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
  • The effect of exercise on the heart and the athlete's heart
  • Approach to the patient with hyperlipidemia
  • Evaluation and management of the patient with hypertension
  • Secondary hypertension
  • Pheochromocytoma
  • Chronic ischemic heart disease
  • Instable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction
  • ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
  • Mitral stenosis and regurgitation
  • Mitral valve prolapse
  • Aortic stenosis and regurgitation
  • Tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Congestive cardiomyopathy
  • Restrictive cardiomyopathy
  • Infectious myocarditis
  • Infectious endocarditis
  • Pericardial disease
  • Congenital heart disease, including unrepaired lesions in the adult
  • Congenital heart disease in the adult postoperative patient
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Cardiac tumors
  • Nonpenetrating cardiac trauma
  • Diseases of the aorta
  • Diseases of peripheral arteries and veins
  • Anticoagulation, acute and chronic : indications and methods
  • Cerebrovascular complications of cardiac disorders
  • The heart and endocrine diseases
  • Rheumatic diseases and the heart
  • The aging heart
  • Pregnancy and the heart
  • Heart transplantation
  • Atrial fibrillation : practical approaches