DESCRIPTION:
Harrison""s is the gold standard for authoritative, up-to-date information in medicine. Now that there""s more information, coming at you faster than ever, Harrison""s continues to lead, providing the best, vetted, timely information-in a format renowned for readability.
Featuring the latest updates and articles from the Harrison""s online database-these current reviews of cardiology provide the most readable, concise, and authoritative summaries of current clinical practices and field trials available. Written by leaders in each area of cardiac medicine, every article brings you up to speed with a focused, timely, and incisive review.
Harrison""s Advances in Cardiology is the best place to
* Update your expertise in the five major areas of concern in cardiology:
Arrhythmias
Congestive heart failure
Atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease
Acute coronary symptoms
Hypertension and peripheral vascular disease
* Review the latest cardiac treatments including the newest cardiovascular therapeutics
* Find the finest, evidence-based guidance on important topics such as when to use implantable defibrillators in congestive heart failure, new antiarrhythmic agents, and mechanical assist devices as bridges to transplantation
* Discover what""s new in important developing topics such as Left Ventricular Assist Devices, clinical trials of amiodarone, and atrial fibrillation genetics
* Turn to the best in practical advice on cardiac transplantation, valve surgery, causes and treatment of heart failure, the long QT syndrome, and more
CONTENTS:
* Brugada Syndrome * Current Status of Atrial Fibrillation Trials * Management of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation * Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation * Indications of the Implanted Cardioverter/Defibrillator * When to Use Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators in Congestive Heart Failure * Newer Approaches to Management of the Long QT Syndrome * Ibutilide-A New Antiarrhythmic Agent * Tumor Necrosis Factor in Heart Failure * Myocyte Apoptosis in the Development of Heart Failure * Role of Aldosterone in Heart Failure * Role of Left Ventricular Assist Devices as a Bridge to Transplantation * Results of Recent Clinical Trials with Aminodarone * Bridge to Transplantation with Mechanical Assist Devices * Present Status of Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Devices * Effect of Cardiac Pacing Modes on Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality * Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation * Transesophageal Echo-Guided Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation * Cardiac Replacement Therapy-Development of the AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart * Timing of Operation for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Regurgitation
