DESCRIPTION:
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting provides an authoritative, detailed discussion of cardiovascular disease balanced with practical utility. Disease states are explained with emphasis on risk factors, risk estimation, and established cardiac disease. The book also delves into the co-morbid conditions which surround cardiovascular disease, including peripheral vascular disease, chronic kidney disease, depression, and erectile dysfunction, with the goal of improving quality of life for affected individuals. An abundance of algorithms, case studies, and recommendations on evidence-based best practices facilitate rapid learning. A key resource for the busy practitioner, this book is designed to give the reader the skills to confidently perform assessments, initiate and maintain efficacious therapy, and know when a referral to a cardiologist is advisable.
CONTENTS:
I. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
1. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Characterization of Atherosclerotic Disease Risk Factors
2. Atrial Hypertension
3. Management Dyslipidemia
4. Obesity and Therapeutic Approaches to Weight Loss
5. Inflammatory Markers and Novel Risk Factors
6. Deciphering Cardiovascular Genomics and How They Apply to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
7. The Metabolic Syndrome: 2009
8. Chronic Kidney Disease in the Primary
II. Coronary Artery Disease
9. Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia
10. Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
11. ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
12. Coronary Artery Stenting
13. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
14. Cardiac Rehabilitation
III. Peripheral Forms of Venous and Arterial Disease
15. Carotid Artery Disease
16. Peripheral Arterial Disease
17. Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
18. Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale
19. Diagnosis and Management of Ischemic
20. Aortic Aneurysms
21. Erectile Dysfunction
IV. Cardiac Disease
22. Valvular Heart Disease
23. Pericardial Diseases
24. Common Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias
25. Evidence-based Management of the Patient with Congestive Heart Failure
26. Coronary Calcium Scoring
27. Cardiac Computed Tomography
28. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
