Cardiovascular medicine

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to orthostatic hypotension (OH) for doctors and nurses involved in the care of older adults, together with a state-of-the-art update on OH, covering its epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, causes, prevention, management, and relevance for geriatric practice.

This book covers relevant concepts in nuclear cardiology, combining imaging techniques and clinical data to do so.

The second edition of this important book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of clinical lipidology.

This extensively revised textbook reviews the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in pediatric and young adult patients with cardiac disease.

Vascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide.

This textbook provides a practical and board-driven resource to describe and define the emerging field of cardiorenal medicine.

This second edition provides an updated review on the current guidelines and practice standards for the clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

This book describes the relationship of the skin with cardiovascular disease.

This extensively revised edition is an essential reference for physicians involved in the diagnosis, referral and treatment of the thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).

The 2nd edition of this book describes the recent techniques, strategies, and drugs that have been demonstrated by multicenter randomized trials to influence survival in critically ill, defined as those who have acute failure of at least one organ, due to either a pathological condition or a medical intervention, and require intensive care treatment.

This book describes the varying clinical manifestations of postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) and provides a robust yet practical set of clinical tools for those managing patients suffering with this syndrome.

This book is a clinical guide to controversial and emerging topics in pulmonary hypertension.

This book provides a concise review for practitioners in preparation for the Vascular Neurology Boards including the Maintenance of Certification exam.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the ECG findings of inherited arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of all stages of pulmonary embolism, starting with acute and ending with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

This concise book meets the market need for an accessible and up-to-date guide on understanding and managing cardiac anesthesia patients.

Popliteal aneurysms  are still controversial in terms of their pathogenesis, and challenging in terms of their treatment.

This book reviews the assessment of human performance and the role of different exercise modes both in a laboratory and clinical setting.

This book provides an invaluable practically applicable and comprehensive manual to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery.

 This is a comprehensive yet easy to read study guide for those preparing for the echocardiography board examinations, which brings all of the critical resources together into one convenient and portable resource.

This book serves as a pocket-sized resource to aid with the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease in the inpatient setting.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of mechanical circulatory support of the failing heart in adults and children.

This book offers an extensive review of the most recent data on the pathophysiological role of structural and functional alterations in the microcirculation, particularly focusing on hypertension and diabetes.

The book covers the basic science and clinical aspects of cardiovascular calcification and bone mineralization.

This comprehensively revised new edition prepares the reader for the cardiology board examination, as well as provide a concise review of the essentials of general cardiology and the less common but clinically relevant topics in a dynamic and time-efficient manner, augmenting existing learning.

This book offers an overview of the latest advances in the epidemiological, pathophysiological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of secondary hypertension, provided by a group of the most highly respected European experts in this field.

This thoroughly revised third edition provides a comprehensive grounding on hereditary heart diseases with special emphasis on the genetic aspects of these conditions.

This book is the first title that focuses exclusively on kidney disease and its impact in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

This book provides a complete overview on the latest available technologies in dermatology, while discussing future trends of this ever-growing field.

The main goal of the second edition of this book is to update the content on the rapidly growing field of lymphoscintigraphy, a radionuclide-based imaging procedure that provides information on the functional status of the lymphatic system.

Cardiac implantable device (CIED) infections are a key issue since they have serious consequences in terms of morbidity, mortality and associated costs for healthcare systems.

This book addresses placement and retrieval of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters.

This engaging book covers a multitude of topics related to heart rhythm disorders (HRDs) and uniquely familiarizes readers with the development of treatment modalities over the past several decades, including the evolution of anti-arrhythmic drugs, pacemakers, defibrillators, and catheter ablation.

This practical manual makes clinical vascular medicine easy for the health care provider to master by providing frameworks for each area of diagnosis and a practical approach to necessary testing.

This book offers an essential guide to managing the most heatedly debated topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care.

This book comprehensively covers chronic lung disease and cardiovascular disease and their influence on one another including the epidemiology, physiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnostic issues including laboratory and imaging tests, and therapeutic considerations.

This heavily revised second edition provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary review of syncope and how to care for these patients successfully.

This book presents 100 challenging cases encountered in vascular surgery practice that were selected from the author's vascular registry of 7,000 vascular reconstructions (endovascular and open).

This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, clinically oriented guide to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with myocarditis.

A significantly expanded third edition, this book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of cardiac arrhythmias and their ECG/telemetry manifestations, including the principles of cardiac electrophysiology, current concepts of pharmacology, clinical features, diagnoses, and state-of-the-art treatments.

This book presents the main cardiac pathologies, providing a helpful guide featuring clinical cases and electronic supplementary material.

In this concise but authoritative book, the authors take the reader through the epidemiology, risk factors and the basic mechanism of coronary artery disease.

This truly comprehensive title addresses all aspects of the evaluation and management of carotid artery disease.

This book is the first authoritative and comprehensive volume dedicated to epicardial adipose tissue (EAT).

The second edition of this book provides an overview of electrocardiography from a pathophysiological basis.

This book provides a guide to the anatomy and the surgical techniques required in thoracic and cardiothoracic surgery.

The second edition of this educational book provides an updated resource on how best to discuss and manage acute and chronic presentations of renal diseases.

This book provides a practical clinical case-based review of right heart failure.

In recent years, several scientific papers have highlighted the role of the thyroid system in cardioprotection, and several clinical studies - including multicenter studies - have identified the role of thyroid hormones (TH) in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease, making an update of TH and heart relationship both necessary and timely.

This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations.