The second edition of this work provides a discussion of diagnosis and treatment, as well as providing guidelines that aim to give accurate referral for increased levels of care. Emphasis is on preventive care and healthy lifestyle, as well as management of chronic disorders like hypertension.
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Cardiology for the Primary Care Physician by Joseph S. Alpert
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Table of Contents
Physical diagnosis in medicine; referrals; preoperative consultation; interpreting noninvasive cardiac tests; evaluation of the patient with chest pain; evaluation of the patient with heart failure; evaluation of the patient with hypotension and shock; evaluation of the patient with palpitations and non-life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias; evaluation of the patient with syncope; evaluation of the patient resuscitated from cardiac arrest; evaluation of the patient with oedema; risk factors for and prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease; the effect of exercise on the heart and the athlete's heart; approach to the patient with hyperlipidemia; evaluation of the patient with hypertension; secondary hypertension; pheochromocytoma; chronic ischaemic heart disease; unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction; Q-wave myocardial infarction; mitral stenosis and regurgitation; mitral valve prolapse; aortic stenosis and regurgitation; tricuspid and pulmonic valve disease; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; congestive cardiomyopathy; restrictive cardiomyopathy; infectious myocarditis; infectious endocarditis; pericardial disease; congenital heart disease, including unrepaired lesions in the adult; congenital heart disease in the adult postoperative patient; pulmonary hypertension; pulmonary embolism; cardiac tumors; nonpenetrating cardiac trauma; disease of the aorta; thromboembolism to the kidney and atheromolic disease; diseases of peripheral arteries and veins; anticoagulation, acute and chronic - indications and methods; cerebrovascular complications of cardiac disorders; the heart and endocrine diseases; diseases of the heart; the aging heart; pregnancy and the heart; the transplanted heart.
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CIN0838515630G
9780838515631
0838515630
Cardiology for the Primary Care Physician by Joseph S. Alpert
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