Recent Advances in Cardiology 15

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 15 is the latest edtion and covers a broad selection of general cardiac topics to satisfy the book's equally broad readership.

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

• Full of colour images and line artworks to aid learning and understanding

• Essential reading for trainee cardiologists

Table of Contents:
1. Gene and cell therapy for cardiac arrhythmias - Eduardo Marbán, Hee Cheol Cho
2. Vascular calcification: characteristics and pathological mechanisms - Yvonne Alexander, Anthony Heagerty, Daniel Keenan
3. Emergencies in adult congenital heart disease - Petra Jenkins, Vaikom S. Mahadevan
4. The electrocardiography of repolarisation - Derek J. Rowlands, Philip R. Moore
5. Evaluating the cardiac risk of non-cardiac surgery - Wei C. Lau, Kim A. Eagle
6. Late stent thrombosis: incidence, significance, outcomes, management - Marc E. Shelton, Gregory J. Mishkel, Anna L. Moore, Amanda M. Pfeiffer
7. How far are clinical trial data reliable guides to the optimal treatment of acute myocardial infarction? - Philippe Gabriel Steg, Isabelle Boutron
8. Percutaneous aortic valve replacement - John G. Webb
9. Setting up a primary percutaneous coronary intervention service – the Harefield experience - Charles Ilsley, Richard Grocott-Mason
10. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance of the atheromatous plaque: achievements, anticipated developments, clinical application - Niall G. Keenan, Dudley J. Pennell
11. The role of platelet antagonists in the management of cerebrovascular problems - Jeremy P.R. Dick, Jane E. Wainwright
12. Ventricular assist devices: their current and evolving role - Emma J. Birks
13. Cardiovascular risk and the metabolic syndrome - Martin K. Rutter, James B. Meigs, Peter W.F. Wilson
14. Recent advances in surgery of the thoracic aorta - K. Edward McLaughlin, Zinn G. Farquharson
Glossary
Index

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

Readership:
Trainees and practising cardiac physicians

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