Challenging Concepts in Cardiovascular Medicine

A comprehensive guide to the assessment, diagnosis, investigation and management of complex clinical scenarios in cardiovascular medicine. This book contains a series of challenging concepts in cardiovascular medicine covering all subspecialty areas including general cardiology, intervention, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, cardiac devices, transplant medicine, epidemiology, heart disease in pregnancy and congenital heart disease. Each case provides an in-depth review of current practice, the application of national and international guidelines and a summary of evidence from the medical literature. Data sets, investigation results and cardiac imaging give the reader a 'real-life' sense of being in the outpatient clinic, emergency room, coronary care unit or cardiac catheterisation laboratory. Each case is punctuated by 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points' and 'Landmark Trial Summaries' to enhance the learning process alongside an 'Expert Commentary' written by internationally-renowned leaders in the field of cardiology. .

CONTENTS
Coronary heart disease 1: Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention 2: Can a rash cause stent thrombosis? 3: Triple antithrombotic therapy after coronary stenting for chronically anticoagulated patients: too much of a good thing? 4: A closer look at lipid management following an acute coronary syndrome The endocardium and valvular heart diease 5: Management of prosthetic heart valves in pregnancy 6: Symptomatic aortic stenosis - New horizons in management 7: Assessment and management of mitral regurgitation 8: Streptococcus mutans endocarditis - A cautionary tale 9: A word to the wise - Not all chest pain is ischaemic The myocardium and cardiomyopathy 10: Assessment and management of the breathless patient 11: Cardiac transplantation 12: Young Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: how to decide on implantable defibrillators 13: Myocarditis - An inflammatory cardiomyopathy 14: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy 15: The sparkly heart Heart rhythm disturbances 16: Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation 17: Ventricular tachycardia in a 'normal' heart 18: Dual-chamber versus single-chamber pacing: the debate continues 19: Reflex syncope: to pace or not to pace Adult congenital heart disease 20: Cryptogenic stroke 21: Surgically-corrected tetralogy General cardiovascular medicine 22: A case of refractory systemic hypertension 23: Syncope secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension: an ominous sign? 24: Cardiovascular pre-operative risk assessment: a calculated gamble? 25: The role of cardiac rehabilitation following cardiac surgery

Aung Myat , Specialist Registrar in Cardiology and NIHR Clinical Research Fellow The Rayne Institute, St Thomas's Hospital, King's College London, UK,  Shouvik Haldar , Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Fellow, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK, and  Simon Redwood , Professor in Interventional Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, St Thomas's Hospital, King's College London, UK

Dr Aung Myat is currently an NIHR Clinical Research Fellow in Coronary Physiology working in The Rayne Institute at St Thomas's Hospital, King's College London. He is a Specialist Registrar in the West Midlands Deanery Cardiology Training Programme but has taken time out of programme to complete a PhD in Coronary Physiology. He has recently been co-opted as a Member of the Communication and Educaton Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society. Dr Shouvik Haldar is a Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Fellow at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, National Heart and Lung Institute. He graduated from Guy's, King's and St Thomas's Medical School and completeted his general medical training in the Oxford Deanery. He is currently in the North West Thames cardiology specialty training programme. He has recently been co-opted as a Member of the Communication and Education Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society. Dr Simon Redwood is currently Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at King's College London and Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified from St George's Hospital Medical School and trained in cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St George's Hospital, London. He obtained Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and Fellow of the Society of Angiography and Interventions in 2004. He was previously Honorary Treasurer to the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and is an International Editorial Board Member for the journal Heart.

 

Picked up this book after it was commended at the BMA book awards and was not disappointed. Excellent variety of topics, delightful layout, and lots of pointers to keep you interested and wanting more. Up to date but with solid principles that will last. Amazon reviewer This book was an absolute delight and joy. It is highly informative and well writted in language sufficiently engaging for both experts and non-experts... a balanced, understandable and informative read. This book sent a twitter of excitement around the office when it arrived and a month on we are still talking about it - that has to be the sign of something outstanding. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing Every case is exciting and a challenge, it is excellently structured, it is richly illustrated with high-quality images including electrocardiogram, coronary angiography, echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, etc. which makes the patient cases very comprehensive. The concise and easy-to-read-format of this book will enable the reader