Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Cardiovascular Disorders

Professor David Warrell is one of the world's leading figures in tropical medicine, and is the founding director of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme, Thailand. He has advised, among others, the British Army, the Foreign Office, the Royal Geographic Society and the World Health Organisation, on tropical medicine.Professor Cox is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, with clinical responsibility in acute internal medicine and metabolic diseases at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1971 and has conducted scientific investigations principally on inborn errors of metabolism.Dr Firth is a deputy medical directors of Cambridge University Hospitals. He qualified in medicine from University of Cambridge (pre-clinical) and University of Oxford (clinical), trained in general medicine and nephrology in London and Oxford, and first worked as a consultant (supported by the Wellcome Trust) in Oxford before moving to Cambridge as an NHS consultant physician in 1996. He is a Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of Physicians.Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford. Clinical Lecturer Keble college Oxford. Subspecialty interests: Heart Failure and pulmonary hypertension. Thames Valley Network Lead for Heart failure. Previously: Consultant Cardiologist North Bristol Trust 1994 - 2001. BHF research Fellow 1989 -1992 Oxford.

The clear and extensive depictions of the topics and the abundant graphical material ensure successful examination of themes... The book thus may be very useful to students, physicians, and educators with a professional interest in the fields of internal medicine and cardiology.

• 16.01.01 Blood vessels and the endothelium ; 16.01.02 Clinical physiology of the normal heart ; 16.02.01 Chest pain, breathlessness and fatigue ; 16.02.02 Syncope and palpitation ; 16.03.01 Electrocardiography ; 16.03.02 Echocardiography ; 16.03.03 Cardiac investigations: nuclear and other imaging techniques ; 16.03.04 Cardiac catheterisation and angiography ; 16.04 Cardiac arrhythmias ; 16.05.01 Cardiac failure - epidemiology & physiology ; 16.05.02 Acute cardiac failure & pulmonary oedema ; 16.05.03 Chronic cardiac failure - investigation & management ; 16.05.04 Cardiorenal syndrome ; 16.05.05 Cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support ; 16.06 Heart valve disease ; 16.07.01 Acute myocarditis ; 16.07.02 The cardiomyopathies: hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive and right ventricular ; 16.07.03 Secondary to systemic disorders ; 16.08 Pericardial disease ; 16.09.01 Acute rheumatic fever ; 16.09.02 Infective endocarditis ; 16.09.03 Cardiac disease in HIV infection ; 16.09.04 Cardiovascular syphilis ; 16.10 Tumours of the heart ; 16.11 Cardiac involvement in genetic disease ; 16.12 Congenital heart disease in the adult ; 16.13.01 Biology & pathology of atherosclerosis ; 16.13.02 Coronary heart disease: epidemiology and prevention ; 16.13.03 Management of stable angina ; 16.13.04 Management of acute coronary syndromes ; 16.13.05 Percutaneous interventional cardiac procedures ; 16.13.06 Coronary artery bypass surgery ; 16.14.01 Thoracic aortic dissection - rename acute aortic syndromes ; 16.14.02 Peripheral arterial disease ; 16.14.03 Cholesterol embolism ; 16.14.04 Takayasu arteritis ; 16.15.01 Structure and function ; 16.15.02 Pulmonary hypertension ; 16.16.01 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism ; 16.16.02 Therapeutic anticoagulation ; 16.17.01 Essential hypertension: definition, epidemiology and pathophysiology ; 16.17.02 Diagnosis, assessment and treatment of essential hypertension ; 16.17.03 Secondary hypertension ; 16.17.04 Mendelian disorders causing hypertension ; 16.17.05 Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies ; 16.18 Chronic peripheral oedema and lymphoedema ; 16.19 Idiopathic oedema of women