Short description
Heres a quick, portable, well-illustrated source on a full range of cardiac conditions! Each chapter succinctly reviews the clinical features, differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis
of a particular cardiac condition, accompanied by 4 to 6 high-quality color clinical photographs.
Readers will also find self-review picture tests, with answers, at the back of the book. The result is
an ideal resource for exam preparation and a handy review for hospital rounds.
Long description
A new book in the In Focus series covering a major clinical specialty. The text covers the whole spectrum of cardiac disease in the concise text and illustration format of this series. The text is illustrated by a range of photographs including all major investigational procedures used in the specialty, as well as high quality clinical photographs and pathology specimens. The book ends with a range of picture-based self-assessment questions with full accompanying descriptive answers.
Review
The In Focus series are useful 'trigger texts' i.e. they give enough information so that you want to read further or continue your learning on the internet. The colours have been used nicely, with realistic print colours of patients, instruments and slides. The set out of the books are ideal with good, quick refernce contents, making the series ideal for students in Clinics and/or ward rounds.
Medical Student, UK, January 2005
Table of contents
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart failure
- Heart muscle disease
- Valve disease Infective endocarditis
- Pericardial disease
- Arrhythmias
- Pacemakers
- Congenital heart disease
- Aortic disease
- Pulmonary vascular disease
- Cardiac tumours
- Questions
- Answers
- index