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Revised and updated for its Fifth Edition, Pathophysiolgy of Heart Disease is a comprehensive, clear, concise, and easy-to-understand introduction to cardiovascular diseases.

This best-selling text is written by internationally recognized Harvard Medical School faculty and select medical students during their initial encounters with patients with heart disease. This edition has improved consistency of coverage and level of detail and enhanced illustrations. A companion website on thePoint will include the fully searchable text and audio heart sounds, plus an image bank for faculty.

Features :

-NEW! conversion of approximately 20 1-color line drawings to 2-color to make more use of 2- color

-NEW! redrawing of approximately 15 existing 2-color line drawings to improve quality and presentation and consistency throughout the book

-NEW! improved consistency of coverage and level of detail from chapter to chapter as well as in chapter summaries;

-NEW! updates coverage

-Chapter outlines, end-of-chapter summaries, suggested reading lists; chapters grouped by major cardiovascular disorders; clinical boxes; consistent chapter organization: Etiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Features, Diagnostic Approach, Treatment & numerous diagrams, images, and tables.

Foreword vii Preface ix List of Contributors xi CHAPTER 1 Basic Cardiac Structure and Function 1 Ken Young Lin, Elazer R. Edelman, Gary Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 2 The Cardiac Cycle: Mechanisms of Heart Sounds and Murmurs 28 Henry Jung and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 3 Cardiac Imaging and Catheterization 44 Henry Jung, Ken Young Lin, and Patricia Challender Come CHAPTER 4 The Electrocardiogram 75 Stephen R. Pomedli and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 5 Atherosclerosis 113 Jordan B. Strom and Peter Libby CHAPTER 6 Ischemic Heart Disease 135 June-Wha Rhee, Marc S. Sabatine, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 7 Acute Coronary Syndromes 161 June-Wha Rhee, Marc S. Sabatine, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 8 Valvular Heart Disease 190 Christopher A. Miller, Patrick T. O\u2019Gara, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 9 Heart Failure 216 Neal Anjan Chatterjee and Michael A. Fifer CHAPTER 10 The Cardiomyopathies 244 Christopher T. Lee, G. William Dec, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 11 Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias 261 Ranliang Hu, William G. Stevenson, Gary R. Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 12 Clinical Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias 279 Ranliang Hu, William G. Stevenson, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 13 Hypertension 301 Christopher T. Lee, Gordon H. Williams, and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 14 Diseases of the Pericardium 324 Yin Ren and Leonard S. Lilly CHAPTER 15 Diseases of the Peripheral Vasculature 339 Fan Liang and Mark A. Creager CHAPTER 16 Congenital Heart Disease 361 David D. Berg and David W. Brown CHAPTER 17 Cardiovascular Drugs 386 Cyrus K. Yamin, Christopher A. Miller, Elliott M. Antman, Gary R. Strichartz, and Leonard S. Lilly Index 437