Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered is the ideal integrated text to help you recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage many heart-related disorders and conditions. Written by three practising cardiologists, it leads students through a clinical approach to managing problems with 26 real-world cardiovascular cases. There is strong emphasis on high-quality figures, particularly 12-lead ECGs, as these play such a major role in the evaluation of the cardiac patient.
Following a question-answer approach throughout the narrative, with self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs,Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered includes sections on cardiac anatomy, physiology and pathology which provide the essentials required to understand clinical cardiology, and is ideal for medical students and junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, specialist nurses and nurse practitioners, and for those with plans for a career in cardiology.
Preface, vii
How to use this book, viii
List of abbreviations, ix
Part 1 Basics, 1
Basic science, 1
Approach to the patient, 23
Part 2 Cases, 38
Case 1 A 47-year-old man with chest pain, 38
Case 2 A 60-year-old heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver with chest pain, 48
Case 3 An 85-year-old man with collapse, 56
Case 4 A 71-year-old man with exertion chest tightness, 63
Case 5 A 50-year-old man with sudden-onset severe central chest pain, 72
Case 6 A 45-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness, 77
Case 7 A 34-year-old man with chest pain following a viral illness, 84
Case 8 An 80-year-old woman with acute severe breathlessness, 90
Case 9 A 50-year-old man with exertional breathlessness, 98
Case 10 A 72-year-old woman with breathlessness on exertion, 107
Case 11 A 50-year-old man with a murmur, 112
Case 12 A 30-year-old man with high blood pressure and a heart murmur, 118
Case 13 A 64-year-old man with collapse and a murmur, 124
Case 14 A 34-year-old man with malaise, chest pains and breathlessness, 130
Case 15 A 22-year-old woman with faints, 136
Case 16 A 76-year-old woman with blackouts, 142
Case 17 A 35-year-old woman with palpitations, 148
Case 18 A 42-year-old man with palpitations, 153
Case 19 A 64-year-old man with fatigue and palpitations, 160
Case 20 A 24-year-old man with palpitations, 165
Case 21 A 77-year-old woman with fatigue and bradycardia, 171
Case 22 A 57-year-old man with collapse, 177
Case 23 A 36-year-old woman with a family history of sudden death, 183
Case 24 A 60-year-old man with high blood pressure, 190
Case 25 A 24-year-old woman with visual loss and dysphasia, 196
Case 26 A 59-year-old woman with low blood pressure and breathlessness, 202
Part 3 Self-assessment, 208
MCQs, 208
EMQs, 214
SAQs, 224
Answers, 228
Index of cases by diagnosis, 235
Index, 237
