Mayo Clinic Cardiology provides a contemporary succinct distillation of the current status of cardiovascular knowledge and disease.

Mayo Clinic Cardiology guides the reader through all the essential information required to skillfully approach professional board examinations and practice state-of-the-art clinical patient care.

Mayo Clinic Cardiology features:

• hundreds of black and white and color images, including electrophysiologic tracings, angiographic images, radiographs of heart defects, and hemodynamic tracings
• a reader-friendly approach to fundamental concepts of cardiovascular disease before progressing to more expansive discussions of the pathophysiology of individual cardiac diseases
• written to help seasoned clinicians update their understanding of cardiovascular disease
• succinctly explores cellular pathophysiology and the cellular basis of disease with chapters on molecular biology, cellular electrophysiology, endothelial function, lipid metabolism, and the coagulation system

Contents

1. Fundamentals of Cardiovascular Disease

• Physical Examination
• Applied Anatomy of the Heart and Great Vessels
• Evidence-Based Medicine and Statistics for Cardiology Examinations
• Noncardiac Surgery in Patients with Heart Disease
• Essential Molecular Biology of Cardiovascular Diseases
• Medical Ethics
• Restrictions for Drivers of Motor Vehicles and Pilots of Aircraft Who Have Cardiovascular Conditions

2. Noninvasive Imaging

• General Principles of Echocardiography
• Stress Echocardiography
• Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Nuclear Imaging
• Positron Emission Tomography
• Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Cardiac Radiography
• Atlas of Radiographs of Congenital Heart Defects
• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
• Stress Test Selection

3. Electrophysiology

• Electrocardiographic Diagnoses: Criteria and Definitions of Abnormalities
• Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology
• Normal and Abnormal Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Indications for Electrophysiologic Testing
• Cardiac Channelopathies
• Pediatric Arrhythmias
• Atrial Fibrillation: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Evaluation
• Atrial Fibrillation: Management
• Atrial Flutter
• Supraventricular Tachycardia: Diagnosis and Treatment of the Common Causes
• Ventricular Tachycardia
• Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease
• Arrhythmias During Pregnancy
• Heritable Cardiomyopathies
• Syncope: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Pacemakers
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• Technical Aspects of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
• Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Trials and Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death
• Sudden Cardiac Death
• Heart Disease in Athletes
• Atlas of Electrophysiology Tracings

4. Valvular Disease

• Valvular Stenosis
• Valvular Regurgitation
• Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Carcinoid and Drug-Related Heart Disease
• Prosthetic Heart Valves
• Surgery for Cardiac Valve Disease

5. Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases

• Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• The Aorta
• Renovascular Disease and Renal Artery Stenting
• Pathophysiology of Arterial Thrombosis
• Treatment and Prevention of Arterial Thrombosis
• Venous and Lymphatic Disorders
• Vasculitis

6. Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors

• Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis
• Dyslipidemia and Other Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis
• Novel Risk Markers for Atherosclerosis
• Diabetes Mellitus and Coronary Artery Disease
• Hypertension
• Heart Disease in Women
• Heart Disease in the Elderly
• Erectile Dysfunction and the Heart

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