Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered(Clinical Cases)

Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered is the ideal integrated text to help you recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage many heart-related disorders and conditions. Written by three practising cardiologists, it leads students through a clinical approach to managing problems with 26 real-world cardiovascular cases. There is strong emphasis on high-quality figures, particularly 12-lead ECGs, as these play such a major role in the evaluation of the cardiac patient. Following a question-answer approach throughout the narrative, with self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered includes sections on cardiac anatomy, physiology and pathology which provide the essentials required to understand clinical cardiology, and is ideal for medical students and junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, specialist nurses and nurse practitioners, and for those with plans for a career in cardiology.

Table of Contents:
Preface, vii How to use this book, viii List of abbreviations, ix Part 1 Basics, 1 Basic science, 1 Approach to the patient, 23 Part 2 Cases, 38 Case 1 A 47-year-old man with chest pain, 38 Case 2 A 60-year-old heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver with chest pain, 48 Case 3 An 85-year-old man with collapse, 56 Case 4 A 71-year-old man with exertion chest tightness, 63 Case 5 A 50-year-old man with sudden-onset severe central chest pain, 72 Case 6 A 45-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness, 77 Case 7 A 34-year-old man with chest pain following a viral illness, 84 Case 8 An 80-year-old woman with acute severe breathlessness, 90 Case 9 A 50-year-old man with exertional breathlessness, 98 Case 10 A 72-year-old woman with breathlessness on exertion, 107 Case 11 A 50-year-old man with a murmur, 112 Case 12 A 30-year-old man with high blood pressure and a heart murmur, 118 Case 13 A 64-year-old man with collapse and a murmur, 124 Case 14 A 34-year-old man with malaise, chest pains and breathlessness, 130 Case 15 A 22-year-old woman with faints, 136 Case 16 A 76-year-old woman with blackouts, 142 Case 17 A 35-year-old woman with palpitations, 148 Case 18 A 42-year-old man with palpitations, 153 Case 19 A 64-year-old man with fatigue and palpitations, 160 Case 20 A 24-year-old man with palpitations, 165 Case 21 A 77-year-old woman with fatigue and bradycardia, 171 Case 22 A 57-year-old man with collapse, 177 Case 23 A 36-year-old woman with a family history of sudden death, 183 Case 24 A 60-year-old man with high blood pressure, 190 Case 25 A 24-year-old woman with visual loss and dysphasia, 196 Case 26 A 59-year-old woman with low blood pressure and breathlessness, 202 Part 3 Self-assessment, 208 MCQs, 208 EMQs, 214 SAQs, 224 Answers, 228 Index of cases by diagnosis, 235 Index, 237

About the Author :
Tim Betts, Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Review :
"The authors should be congratulated for providing comprehensive case scenarios aiding ‘decision making' skills and for exploring and covering so much material in such a small volume. A ‘must read' for trainees!." (Cardiology News, 1 October 2011) "This excellent text is likely to become popular with students and cardiologists in training." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 1 April 2011) "This excellent text is likely to become popular with students and cardiologists in training." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 14 October 2009) "Of note are the illustrations, in basic colour, and some of the clearest I've seen for some time." (British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, June 2010)