Practical Cardiology

Ragavendra Baliga, MBBS, MBA, FACC, FRCP (Edin), FACP, is Associate Division Director and Professor of internal medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Baliga was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and completed two more advanced fellowships in cardiac specialties: one at Boston University Medical Center and one at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Dr. Baliga’s clinical interests include general cardiology, hypertension, elevated cholesterol and heart failure. His research focuses on heart failure, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, atherosclerosis and angina.Kim Eagle is the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System. From 1986 to 1994, Eagle served The Massachusetts General Hospital where he was promoted to associate director of Clinical Cardiology and associate professor of Medicine at Harvard. Sincehis recruitment to the University of Michigan, he oversees a vigorous outcomes research program focusing on quality, cost-effectiveness, use of practice guidelines in cardiovascular care, evaluation and management of acute coronary syndromes, the evaluation and management of aortic dissection, and the use of modern mathematical models to assess outcomes and risk. He maintains an active inpatient and outpatient practice and is working with colleagues in creating the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center. His outcomes research team has led quality improvement initiatives across the state of Michigan in acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and coronary angioplasty.

• Chest Pain.- Dyspnea.- Palpitations.- Edema.- Syncope.- Approach to Claudication.- Coronary Artery Disease.- Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease.- Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease.- Stable Angina.- Unstable Angina.- Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.- Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.- Hypertension.- Primary Hypertension.- Approach to Secondary Hypertension.- Congestive Heart Failure.- Heart Failure Due to Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction.- Heart Failure with Preserved Systolic Function.- Arrhythmias.- Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia.- Atrial Fibrillation & Atrial Flutter.- Ventricular Tachycardia.- Bradycardia.- Valvular Heart Disease.- Infectious Endocarditis.- Mitral Regurgitation.- Aortic Regurgitation.- Mitral Stenosis.- Aortic Stenosis.- Tricuspid.- Pulmonary Valve Disease.- Pericardial Disease & Cardiac Neoplasms.- Acute Pericarditis.- Pericardial Effusion.- Pericardial Constriction.- Aortic & Major Vascular Diseases.-Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms.- Nondissecting Thoracic Aneurysms.- Aortic Dissection.- Cerebrovascular Disease.- Deep Venous Thrombosis.- Lower Extremity Ischemia.- Pulmonary Vascular Diseases.- Pulmonary Embolism.- Pulmonary Hypertension & Cor Pulmonale.- Diagnosis & Management.- Congenital Heart Disease in Adults.- Management of Chronic Anticoagulation.- Assessing & Minimizing Cardiac Risk of Noncardiac Surgery.- Management of the Cardiac Surgery Patient.- Complementary & Alternative Medicine.