Challenging Concepts in Cardiovascular Medicine: A Case-Based Approach with Expert Commentary

A comprehensive guide to the assessment, diagnosis, investigation and management of complex clinical scenarios in cardiovascular medicine. This book contains 25 challenging concepts in cardiovascular medicine covering all subspecialty areas including general cardiology, intervention, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, cardiac devices, transplant medicine, epidemiology, heart disease in pregnancy and congenital heart disease. Each case provides an in-depth review of current practice, the application of national and international guidelines and a summary of evidence from the medical literature. Data sets, investigation results and cardiac imaging give the reader a 'real-life' sense of being in the outpatient clinic, emergency room, coronary care unit or cardiac catheterisation laboratory. Each case is punctuated by 'Clinical Tips', 'Learning Points' and 'Landmark Trial Summaries' to enhance the learning process alongside an 'Expert Commentary' written by internationally-renowned leaders in the field of cardiology.
Contents

CORONARY HEART DISEASE
1. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention
2. Can a rash cause stent thrombosis?
3. Triple antithrombotic therapy after coronary stenting for chronically anticoagulated patients: too much of a good thing?
4. A closer look at lipid management following an acute coronary syndrome
THE ENDOCARDIUM AND VALVULAR HEART DIEASE
5. Management of prosthetic heart valves in pregnancy
6. Symptomatic aortic stenosis - New horizons in management
7. Assessment and management of mitral regurgitation
8. Streptococcus mutans endocarditis - A cautionary tale
9. A word to the wise - Not all chest pain is ischaemic
THE MYOCARDIUM AND CARDIOMYOPATHY
10. Assessment and management of the breathless patient
11. Cardiac transplantation
12. Young Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: how to decide on implantable defibrillators
13. Myocarditis - An inflammatory cardiomyopathy
14. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
15. The sparkly heart
HEART RHYTHM DISTURBANCES
16. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
17. Ventricular tachycardia in a 'normal' heart
18. Dual-chamber versus single-chamber pacing: the debate continues
19. Reflex syncope: to pace or not to pace
ADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
20. Cryptogenic stroke
21. Surgically-corrected tetralogy
GENERAL CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
22. A case of refractory systemic hypertension
23. Syncope secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension: an ominous sign?
24. Cardiovascular pre-operative risk assessment: a calculated gamble?
25. The role of cardiac rehabilitation following cardiac surgery