Summary:
Forming part of the successful and well-established Recent Advances series, each new issue contains entirely new material, written by experts from across the world. Recent Advances in Cardiology 14 covers a broad selection of general cardiac topics to satisfy the book's equally broad readership.

Updated annually, this title covers the latest trends within cardiology and provides a comprehensive survey of up-to-date knowledge for trainee and practising cardiac physicians. The contributors are recognised experts in their particular field and they provide in-depth reviews of topics ranging across all areas of cardiology, including thrombosis, angioplasty and cardiac surgery. This text will also be relevant to the physician who deals with cardiology problems on a day-to-day basis.

Featuring the latest trends, Recent Advances in Cardiology is essential reading for trainees and is a useful update for practising cardiac physicians in this rapidly developing specialty.

• Follows the successful format of the highly regarded Recent Advances series

• Each chapter contains useful 'Key points for clinical practice' and references for further reading

• Reviews the latest developments in cardiology to ensure the reader is well-informed and up to date with the latest advances in the field

• Contains 15 chapters, full of images and line artworks, to aid learning and understanding

• Essential reading for trainee cardiologists

Table of Contents:
1. If inhibition: the concept and its possible role in the treatment of congestive heart failure - Elisabetta Cerbai, Alessandro Mugelli
2. Intracellular calcium and cardiac disease - Luigi A. Venetucci, David A. Eisner
3. Cardiac metabolism: from bench to bedside - Diabetic cardiomyopathy, a disease of cardiac metabolism? - Mamas A. Mamas, Ludwig Neyses
4. Interventions in the adult patient with congenital heart disease - Vaikom S. Mahadevan, Bernard Clarke
5. The congenital long QT syndrome: does the underlying genotype matter? - Ihab Diab, Clifford Garratt
6. Heart disease in pregnancy - Sarah Vause, Bernard Clarke, Derek J Rowlands
7. Sudden cardiac death in young athletes - Sanjay Sharma, William J. McKenna
8. The current approach to the treatment of hypertension: a response to trials and guidelines - Tony M. Heagerty
9. Triggering of acute coronary syndromes - Mimi R. Bhattacharyya, Andrew Steptoe
10. Coronary heart disease in women: under-diagnosed and under-treated - Ghada W. Mikhail
11. Coronary angiography by CT: is it now feasible? Achievements, limitations, future possibilities - Melanie Greaves, Derek J. Rowlands
12. The limb leads and the frontal plane vectors: a poorly understood and undervalued resource - Derek J. Rowlands, Philip R. Moore
13. Percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes - Cara Hendry, Farzin Fath-Ordoubadi
14. Are the benefits of statins confined to their lipid-lowering properties? - J. Paul Miller
15. Mitral valve repair - J. Andreas Hoschtitzky, Daniel J.M. Keenan
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About the Author(s):

Derek J Rowlands BSc MD FRCP FACC FESC
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK; Consultant Cardiologist, Alexandra Hospital, The Beeches Consulting Centre, Cheadle, Cheshire, UK

Bernard Clarke BSc MD FRCP(Lond.) FRCP(Edin.) FESC FACC
Consultant Cardiologist, Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester, Royal Infirmary, Central, Manchester andManchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester, UK; Honorary Lecturer in Medicine, University of Manchester, UK

Contributors:
Mimi R. Bhattacharyya BSc MBBS MRCP Clinical Research Fellow, Psychobiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Elisabetta Cerbai PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Center of Molecular Medicine CIMMBA, Department of Pharmacology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy Bernard Clarke BSc(Hons) MB ChB MD FRCP(Lond.) FRCP(Edin) FESC FACC Consultant Cardiologist, Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester, UK. Honorary Lecturer in Medicine, University of Manchester, UK Ihab Diab MB BS MSc MD Clinical Electrophysiology Fellow, Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK David A. Eisner MA DPhil DMedSci Briti

Readership:
Trainees and practising cardiac physicians

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