Cardiology Secrets E-Book

Glenn N. Levine

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780323478779
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Cardiologia

For more than 30 years, The Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Cardiology Secrets, 5th Edition, features the Secrets' popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style – making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• The Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – concise, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective – now with an improved organization that makes information even easier than ever to find.

• Written by global experts and thought leaders in cardiovascular disease.

• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice.

• New dedicated sections on peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular disease, venous thromboembolic disease, and specific populations and conditions, plus a dedicated chapter on new direct oral anticoagulant agents.

• New chapters added on hypercoagulability states, specific valvular lesions, sleep apnea and the heart, heart disease in women, cardio-oncology, cardiac arrest, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), carotid artery disease, and hemorrhagic stroke.

• Several hundred illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams – 100+ are new!

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “b”, “t”, and “f” refer to boxes, tables, and figures respectively.

A

A wave, 103, 104f

Abacavir, 411

Abciximab, for acute coronary syndrome, in elderly, 433t–434t

Abdominal aorta, imaging of, in thoracic aortic atheromata, 473

Abdominal aortic aneurysm, 470f

imaging for, 473

intervention for, 473

repair of, 464

rupture of

estimated annual risk of, 471t

presence of, 471

untreated, 471

screening for, 473

standard transthoracic echocardiography in, 473

Abrupt vessel closure, 175

Absolute indications, for exercise stress testing termination, 42

Acanthosis nigricans, 131

Accelerated atherosclerosis

in HIV patients, 408t, 409

rheumatoid arthritis and, 413, 414f

Accelerated idioventricular rhythm (AIVR), 340–341, 341f

Accelerated junctional rhythms, 22

ACE inhibitors, See Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors

Acquired hypercoagulable states, 534, 537t

Acquired lipodystrophy, 411

Acquired thrombophilias, 536

Acute antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), 258, 259t

risk factors and treatment for, 260

Acute aortic regurgitation

causes of, 277

presentation of, 277

Acute aortic syndrome, 481f

presentation of, 479

types of, 479

Acute cellular rejection (ACR), 258, 259t

incidence, risk factors, treatment of, 260

Acute coronary syndromes, 125

See also Non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

cardiac catheterization and, 112t

chest pains and, 125–133, 126t–128t

in elderly, 432

elevated troponin level and, 133

non-ST-segment elevation, 173–174

presentation of, 444–451

Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), 233–240

biomarker role in, 234–235, 235f

cardiorenal syndrome in, 238

criteria for hospital discharge in, 240b

definition of, 233, 234f

determining the discharge patients, 238

diuretics in, 237

goals of therapy in, 236, 236b

high risk for, 235–236, 235f, 236b

inotropes and, 238, 239f

invasive hemodynamic monitoring and, 237

natriuretic peptides in diagnosis of, 234–235

subcategories of, 233

Acute myocardial infarction, 22–23

cardiac trauma and, 614, 616f

cardiogenic shock and, 165–166, 166f

chest pains and, 126t

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