Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Foreword

vii

 

Preface

ix

 

List of Contributors

xi

Chapter 1

Basic Cardiac Structure and Function   Ken Young Lin, Elazer R. Edelman, Gary Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly

1

Chapter 2

The Cardiac Cycle: Mechanisms of Heart Sounds and Murmurs   Henry Jung and Leonard S. Lilly

28

Chapter 3

Cardiac Imaging and Catheterization   Henry Jung, Ken Young Lin, and Patricia Challender Come

44

Chapter 4

The Electrocardiogram   Stephen R. Pomedli and Leonard S. Lilly

75

Chapter 5

Atherosclerosis   Jordan B. Strom and Peter Libby

113

Chapter 6

Ischemic Heart Disease   June-Wha Rhee, Marc S. Sabatine, and Leonard S. Lilly

135

Chapter 7

Acute Coronary Syndromes   June-Wha Rhee, Marc S. Sabatine, and Leonard S. Lilly

161

Chapter 8

Valvular Heart Disease   Christopher A. Miller, Patrick T. O’Gara, and Leonard S. Lilly

190

Chapter 9

Heart Failure   Neal Anjan Chatterjee and Michael A. Fifer

216

Chapter 10

The Cardiomyopathies   Christopher T. Lee, G. William Dec, and Leonard S. Lilly

244

Chapter 11

Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias   Ranliang Hu, William G. Stevenson, Gary R. Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly

261

Chapter 12

Clinical Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias   Ranliang Hu, William G. Stevenson, and Leonard S. Lilly

279

Chapter 13

Hypertension   Christopher T. Lee, Gordon H. Williams, and Leonard S. Lilly

301

Chapter 14

Diseases of the Pericardium   Yin Ren and Leonard S. Lilly

324

Chapter 15

Diseases of the Peripheral Vasculature   Fan Liang and Mark A. Creager

339

Chapter 16

Congenital Heart Disease   David D. Berg and David W. Brown

361

Chapter 17

Cardiovascular Drugs   Cyrus K. Yamin, Christopher A. Miller, Elllou M. Antman, Gary R. Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly

386

 

Index

437