BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE HUMAN HEART -- ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT -- PERICARDIUM -- EXTERNAL SURFACE OF THE HEART -- CHAMBERS OF THE HEART -- ATRIA -- VENTRICLES -- VALVES OF THE HEART -- THE HEART WALL -- BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE HEART -- HEARTBEAT -- THE CONDUCTION SYSTEM -- NERVOUS CONTROL OF THE HEART -- CARDIAC OUTPUT -- SYSTOLE AND DIASTOLE -- HEART SOUNDS AND MURMURS -- CHAPTER 2 THE BLOOD VESSELS -- ARTERIES -- THE AORTA AND ITS PRINCIPAL BRANCHES -- RENAL ARTERY -- THE PULSE -- VEINS -- VENAE CAVAE -- PORTAL SYSTEM -- VENOUS PULMONARY SYSTEM -- CAPILLARIES -- PULMONARY CIRCULATION -- SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION -- HUMAN FETAL CIRCULATION -- ANGIOGENESIS -- CHAPTER 3 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE -- CAUSES AND DIAGNOSIS OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE -- TYPES OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES -- ABNORMALITIES OF INDIVIDUAL HEART CHAMBERS -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE ATRIAL SEPTUM -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE VENTRICULAR SEPTUM -- ABNORMAL ORIGINS OF THE GREAT ARTERIES -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE VALVES -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE MYOCARDIUM AND ENDOCARDIUM -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE CORONARY ARTERIES -- ABNORMALITIES OF THE AORTA -- ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS RETURN -- ANOMALIES OF THE VENAE CAVAE -- REPAIR OF CONGENITAL CARDIAC DEFECTS -- CHAPTER 4 ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE -- CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE -- CORONARY HEART DISEASE -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- RISK FACTORS -- ANGINA PECTORIS -- HEART ATTACK -- SURVIVAL DURING AND AFTER A HEART ATTACK -- SUDDEN DEATH -- PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE -- DISEASES OF THE PULMONARY ARTERY AND AORTA -- RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE -- PULMONARY HEART DISEASE (COR PULMONALE) -- OTHER DISEASES OF THE PULMONARY ARTERY AND AORTA -- CHAPTER 5 DISEASES OF HEART TISSUES, DISTURBANCES IN CARDIAC RHYTHM, AND HEART FAILURE -- DISEASES OF HEART TISSUES -- DISEASES OF THE ENDOCARDIUM AND VALVES.

DISEASES OF THE MYOCARDIUM -- DISEASES OF THE PERICARDIUM -- DISTURBANCES IN CARDIAC RHYTHM AND CONDUCTION -- DETERMINANTS OF CARDIAC RHYTHM -- PREMATURE CONTRACTIONS -- ARRHYTHMIA -- HEART FAILURE -- CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE -- VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION IN HEART FAILURE -- TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE -- CHAPTER 6 DISEASES OF THE BLOOD VESSELS -- DISEASES OF THE ARTERIES -- ATHEROSCLEROSIS -- THROMBOSIS -- EMBOLISM -- STROKE -- ARTERITIS -- ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA -- RAYNAUD SYNDROME -- ACROCYANOSIS -- ERYTHROMELALGIA -- AORTIC ARCH SYNDROME -- OTHER INJURIES TO ARTERIES -- DISEASES OF THE VEINS -- THROMBOPHLEBITIS -- VARICOSE VEINS -- HEMORRHOIDS -- VENOSPASM -- DISEASES OF THE CAPILLARIES -- ANGIOMA -- CHAPTER 7 HEMODYNAMIC DISORDERS AND SHOCK -- HEMODYNAMIC DISORDERS -- HYPERTENSION -- HYPOTENSION -- BAINBRIDGE REFLEX -- SYNCOPE -- PHYSIOLOGICAL SHOCK -- SHOCK DUE TO INADEQUATE BLOOD VOLUME -- SHOCK DUE TO INADEQUATE CARDIAC OUTPUT -- BACTEREMIC SHOCK -- ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK -- PSYCHOGENIC SHOCK -- DRUGS AND SHOCK -- NEUROGENIC SHOCK -- ENDOCRINE CAUSES OF SHOCK -- REFRACTORY AND IRREVERSIBLE SHOCK -- CHAPTER 8 APPROACHES TO CARDIOVASCULAR EVALUATION AND TREATMENT -- MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN CARDIOLOGY -- NONINVASIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES -- ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY -- BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPHY -- RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING -- ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY -- PHONOCARDIOGRAPHY -- CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING -- INVASIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES -- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION -- ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY -- ANGIOGRAPHY -- SURGICAL AND EMERGENCY CARDIAC TREATMENTS -- OPEN-HEART SURGERY -- CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS -- MECHANICAL HEARTS -- VALVULAR AND PERICARDIAL SURGERIES -- CARDIAC PACEMAKERS -- REPAIR OF HEART WOUNDS -- CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY -- ANGIOPLASTY -- HEART TRANSPLANTATION -- CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION -- DEFIBRILLATION -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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