| Description |
xiii, 721 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Cardiologic Principles for the Primary Care Physician -- 1. Evidence-Based Medicine / Lee Goldman -- 2. Clinical Decision Making / Lee Goldman -- 3. The Clinical Examination / Eugene Braunwald -- 4. Cardiac Noninvasive Testing / Thomas H. Lee -- 5. Principles of Echocardiography / Scott D. Solomon -- Pt. 2. Approach to Common Cardiac Problems -- 6. Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain / Lee Goldman -- 7. Approach to the Patient with Dyspnea / Richard M. Schwartzstein and David Feller-Kopman -- 8. Approach to the Patient with Edema / Glenn M. Chertow -- 9. Approach to the Patient with Palpitations / Mark A. Hlatky -- 10. Approach to the Patient with Syncope / Wishwa N. Kapoor -- 11. Approach to the Patient with a Heart Murmur / Peter J. Norton and Robert A. O'Rourke -- 12. Approach to the Patient with Asymptomatic Electrocardiographic Abnormalities / Leonard I. Ganz -- 13. Approach to the Patient with Cardiac Enlargement / Patrick T. O'Gara -- 14. Approach to the Patient Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery / Joshua S. Adler and Lee Goldman -- 15. Approach to the Woman with Heart Disease, Including During Pregnancy / Pamela Charney and Sandra Wainwright -- 16. Approach to the Elderly Patient with Heart Disease / Karen P. Alexander and Eric D. Peterson -- 17. Approach to End-of-Life Care for the Patient with End-Stage Heart Disease / Steven Z. Pantilat -- Pt. 3. Preventive Cardiology -- 18. Screening for Coronary Heart Disease and Its Risk Factors / J. Michael Gaziano -- 19. Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Hypertension / William J. Elliott and Henry R. Black -- 20. Dietary Fat and Lipid Disorders / Robert H. Knopp -- 21. Smoking and Smoking Cessation / Neal L. Benowitz -- 22. Exercise and Heart Disease / Paul D. Thompson -- 23. Other Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: Diet, Lifestyle, Psychological Disorders, and Estrogen Deficiency/Hormone Replacement Therapy / Frank B. Hu and JoAnn E. Manson -- Pt. 4. Recognition and Management of Patients with Specific Cardiac Problems -- 24. Approach to Cardiovascular Emergencies / Robert A. Barish and Jerome F. X. Naradzay -- 25. Recognition and Management of Patients with Stable Angina Pectoris / Kanu Chatterjee, C. Michael Gibson and Lee Goldman -- 26. Recognition and Management of Patients with Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction / Eugene Braunwald -- 27. Recognition and Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction / Eugene Braunwald -- 28. Recognition and Management of Patients with Heart Failure / Lynne Warner Stevenson -- 29. Recognition and Management of Patients with Cardiomyopathies / G. William Dec -- 30. Recognition and Management of Patients with Tachyarrhythmias / Melvin M. Scheinman and Vineet Kaushik -- 31. Recognition and Management of Patients with Bradyarrhythmias / Jacob M. Mishell and Nora Goldschlager -- 32. Recognition and Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease / Blase A. Carabello -- 33. Recognition and Management of Patients with Infective Endocarditis / Adolf W. Karchmer -- 34. Recognition and Management of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease / Elyse Foster and Melvin D. Cheitlin -- 35. Recognition and Management of Patients with Pericardial Disease / Rick A. Nishimura and Kenneth R. Kidd -- 36. Recognition and Management of Patients with Diseases of the Aorta: Aneurysms and Dissection / Patrick T. O'Gara -- 37. Recognition and Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease / Alan T. Hirsch -- 38. Pulmonary Embolism, Deep Venou: Thrombosis, and Cor Pulmonale / Samuel Z. Goldhaber |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Subject |
Heart -- Diseases.
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Cardiology.
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Cardiovascular Diseases.
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Primary Health Care.
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Cardiovascular Diseases -- diagnosis.
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Cardiovascular Diseases -- therapy.
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Primary Health Care -- methods.
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| Author |
Braunwald, Eugene, 1929-
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Goldman, Lee (Physician)
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| LC no. |
2002030219 |
| ISBN |
0721694446 : |
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