Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Cardiac arrhythmias encompass a large and heterogenous group of electrical abnormalities of the heart with or without underlying structural heart disease. Cardiac arrhythmias can be innocuous, can predispose to…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Foundations of Cardiac Electrophysiology The Functions of the Cardiac Electrical System While this might come as a surprise to some electrophysiologists, the role of the electrical system of the…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians The evaluation of patients with suspected cardiac arrhythmias is highly individualized and must include a comprehensive assessment of the patient. Evaluation of the patient begins with a careful history…
AcknowledgmentS The author gratefully acknowledges Drs. Mariell Jessup, Pavan Alturi, and Michael A. Acker, whose chapter on this topic in the prior edition of Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine served as the partial basis for the current…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices are mechanical pumps designed to assist or replace the function of the left and/or right ventricle(s) of the heart. Important features that characterize MCS…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians While implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) were first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in 1985, the advent…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Never in history have there been more cancer survivors than presently, and thus, never have the chances been greater for a cardiologist to treat a patient with a cancer…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Cardiovascular (CV) disease and cancer are highly prevalent and two major causes of mortality worldwide, resulting in a substantial public health burden. Global estimates suggest 422 million prevalent cases…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Overview and Definition In its broadest sense, myocarditis refers to any inflammation of the myocardium. Inflammation can be found after any form of injury to the heart, including ischemic…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary disorder of the myocardium. It is defined by the presence of unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), occurring in the absence of identifiable factors…