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Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines

Updated Edition

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Bernard J. Gersh, and A. John Camm

Over 600 tables dissect and summarise the key points of all the latest ESC and AHA/ACC guidelines, in every area of cardiovascular disease
Acts as a fully comprehensive textbook as well as a state-of-the-art guideline reference, with 87 chapters packed with guidance on all aspects of evidence-based practice
Includes a year's access to a regularly updated online version, available for individual and institutional subscription
Incorporates the very latest published knowledge on the clinical value of existing and evolving tests, as well as classification of definitions of the most complex clinical conditions
Features clear recommendations on the use of the latest therapies, in a fast evolving area where coherent advice is difficult to extract from published guidelines and journals
Over 200 full-colour illustrations aid diagnosis and summarise knowledge succinctly and clearly

New to this Edition:

Updated guidelines and content
New and updated figures and tables

Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines

Updated Edition

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Bernard J. Gersh, and A. John Camm

Description

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines Updated Edition is an essential tool for the busy clinician, offering succinct yet detailed access to the most recent trial and guideline data supporting practice and patient management in cardiology.

ESC and ACC/AHA guidelines are continually updated and often overlap in their advice, making it difficult for the cardiologist to obtain a clear picture of the right way to diagnose and treat disease according to the latest evidence base. Written by leading authorities in the field, this book, together with its regularly-updated online version, provides a unique solution.

The authors have scrutinized all available guidelines and research from both ACC/AHA and ESC on every clinical issue. The result is a rigorous examination of the implications of published guidance, illustrated by more than 600 easy-to-follow tables and 200 full-colour images, which reinforce key points and clarify difficult concepts.

87 comprehensive chapters explore the definition, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of cardiac disease. Two new chapters examine the univentricular heart and venous thrombembolism. Each chapter encompasses the latest published research, followed by discussions of possible presentations and investigations, offering detailed insights for clinicians into best practice for diagnosis and treatment.

Providing at-a-glance access to the best guidance in cardiology, this book offers a diagnosis and management toolkit which no practising cardiologist can afford to be without.

Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines

Updated Edition

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Bernard J. Gersh, and A. John Camm

GROWN-UP CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
1:Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease: General Principles
2:Ventricular Septal Defects
3:Atrioventricular Septal Defects
4:Atrial Septal Defects
5:Patent Ductus Arteriosus
6:RVOT Obstruction
7:LVOT Obstruction
8:Coarctation of the aorta
9:Tetralogy of Fallot
10:Transposition of Great Arteries
11:Ebstein's Anomaly
12:Anomalous PV Connections, AV Malformations, Coronary and LV
13:Univentricular Heart
14:The Fontant Patient
15:Eisenmerger Syndrome
VALVE DISEASE
16:Valve Disease: General Principles
17:Mitral Stenosis
18:Mitral Regurgitation
19:Aortic Stenosis
20:Aortic Regurgitation
21:Tricuspid Valve Disease
22:Pulmonary Valve Disease
23:Prosthetic Valves
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION
24:Classification and Pathophysiology of Hypertension
25:Primary (essential) Hypertension
26:Secondary Hypertension
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
27:Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease
28:Non ST-elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
29:ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction
30:Stable Coronary Artery Disease
HEART FAILURE
31:Classification, Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
32:Chronic Heart Failure
33:Heart Failure with Preserved LVEF
34:Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
CARDIOMYOPATHIES
35:Classification of Cardiomyopathies
36:Dilated Cardiomyopathy
37:Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
38:Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
39:Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia
40:Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
41:Tachycardiomyopathy
42:Stress-induced Cardiomyopathy
43:Iron-loaded Cardiomyopathy
44:Left ventricular Non-compaction
MYOCARDITIS
45:Acute Myocarditis
PERICARDIAL DISEASE
46:Constrictive Pericarditis and Congenital Pericardial Defects
47:Acute and Relapsing Pericarditis
48:Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade
49:Constrictive Pericarditis
TACHYARRHYTHMIAS
50:Classification of Tachyarrhythmias and Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
51:Classification, Epidemiology and Presentation of Supraventricular Tachycardias
52:Atrial Tachycardias
53:Atrial Fibrillation
54:Atrioventricular Junctional Tachycardias
55:Atrioventricular Reentrant Tachycardias
56:Ventricular Arrhythmias
GENETIC CHANNELOPATHIES
57:Definitions of Inherited Arrhythmias
58:Long QT syndrome
59:Short QT syndrome
60:Brugada syndrome
61:Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
62:Early Repolarization Syndromes
BRADYARRHYTHMIAS
63:The Cardiac Conduction System
64:Sinus Nodal Disease
65:Atrioventricular and Intraventricular Blocks
66:Conduction Disease in Specific Conditions
SYNCOPE AND SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
67:Syncope
68:Sudden Cardiac Death
IMPLANTABLE DEVICES
69:Technical Issues
70:Procedural Issues and Complications of Implantable Devices
DISEASES OF THE AORTA
71:Acute Aortic Syndromes
72:Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Other Conditions
73:Genetic Syndromes Associated with Thoracic Aneurysm and Dissection
74:Inflammatory Diseases Associated with Thoracic Aortic Disease
VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM
75:Venous Thromboembolism: Epidemiology and Aetiology
76:Pulmonary Embolism
77:Deep Vein Thrombosis
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
78:Definitions and Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension
79:Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Hypertension Associated with Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities
80:Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Left Heart Disease, Lung Disease, and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
81:Infective Endocarditis
RHEUMATIC FEVER
82:Rheumatic Fever
ATHLETE'S HEART
83:Athlete's Heart
CARDIAC TUMORS AND PSEUDOANEURYSMS
84:Cardiac Tumors
85:Pseudoaneurysms of the Heart
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN PREGNANCY
86:Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy
CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS
87:Cardiovascular Drugs

Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines

Updated Edition

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Bernard J. Gersh, and A. John Camm

Author Information

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Athens Euroclinic, Greece & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, USA, Bernard J. Gersh, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, USA, and A. John Camm, St. George's University of London and Imperial College London, UK

Dr Katritsis directs the Department of Cardiology at Athens Euroclinic, Greece, and is a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is honorary consultant cardiologist at St Thomas' Hospital, London, a visiting Professor at the City University, London, and part of the Division of Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is an active interventional cardiologist and electrophysiologist, and runs multidisciplinary research programmes on a wide range of cardiac disorders. He has published over 300 original articles, and contributed to most European and American textbooks of cardiology.

John Camm is Professor of Clinical Cardiology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, and Professor of Cardiology at Imperial College, London. His interests include cardiac arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, stroke prevention, anticoagulation, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac pacemakers, and risk stratification in post-myocardial infarction, heart failure and cardiomyopathy patients. Professor Camm is President of the charity Arrhythmia Alliance and co-founded another highly successful medical charity, the Atrial Fibrillation Association. He is Editor-in-Chief of Europace and Clinical Cardiology, editorial board member of a further 15 journals, and Editor of The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Dr. Gersh's wide interests include the natural history and therapy of acute and chronic coronary artery disease, clinical electrophysiology and in particular atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death, the cardiomyopathies and the clinical implications of molecular genetics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac stem cell therapy and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the developing world. Dr. Gersh is the editor of 13 books and is on the editorial board of 25 journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Senior Consulting Editor), Nature Cardiovascular Medicine,and The European Heart Journal (2009 Deputy Editor). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Reynolds Foundation, a Past Chairman of the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association, an at large member of the World Heart Federation's Scientific and Policy Initiatives Committee (SPIC).

Highly Commended in the Cardiology category of the British Medical Association Book Awards 2017.

Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines

Updated Edition

Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Bernard J. Gersh, and A. John Camm

Reviews and Awards

"Without hesitation, [this] is the most outstanding book for which I have had the pleasure to write a foreword. Further, this is probably the book that better serves the cardiovascular specialist in day-to-day practice than other written in the last two decades. This is not just a textbook; it is an extraordinary "toolkit" in the context of an evidence-based cardiovascular practice in the midst of rapidly evolving scientific knowledge and guidelines." - Valentin Fuster, Physician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA

"...what makes this edition special is that the authors...offer an instructive and practical integration of European and American knowledge. Thus, the reader gets an excellent synopsis of modern evidence-based cardiology in a single book." - Assist Prof Mario Ivanusa, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation