Table of Contents

1 The Morphology of the Electrocardiogram. Antoni Bayes de Luna, Velislav N. Batchvarov and Marek Malik. 2 Cardiac Ultrasound. Jos Roelandt and Raimund Erbel. 3 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Dudley J. Pennell, Frank E. Rademakers and Udo P. Sechtem. 4 Cardiovascular Computerized Tomography. Pim J. de Feyter and Stephan Achenbach. 5 Nuclear Cardiology. Philipp A. Kaufmann, Paolo G. Camici and S. Richard Underwood. 6 Invasive Imaging and Haemodynamics. Christian Seiler and Carlo Di Mario. 7 Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases. Silvia G. Priori, Carlo Napolitano, Stephen Humphries, Maria Cristina Digilio, Paul Kotwinski and Bruno Marino. 8 Clinical Pharmacology of Cardiovascular Drugs. Aroon Hingorani, Patrick Vallance and Raymond MacAllister. 9 Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor Detection and Modification. Joep Perk, Annika Rosengren and Jean Dallongeville. 10 Hypertension. Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Henrik M. Reims, Robert Fagard and Giuseppe Mancia. 11 Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome. Francesco Cosentino, Lars Ryden and Pietro Francia. 12 Acute Coronary Syndromes: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Risk Stratification. Christian W. Hamm, Christopher Heeschen, Erling Falk and Keith A.A. Fox. 13 Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes. Eric Boersma, Frans Van de Werf and Felix Zijlstra. 14 Chronic Ischaemic Heart Disease. Filippo Crea, Paolo G. Camici, Raffaele De Caterina and Gaetano A. Lanza. 15 Management of Angina Pectoris. Kim Fox, Henry Purcell, John Pepper and William Wijns. 16 Myocardial Disease. Otto M. Hess, William McKenna and Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, with co-authors Roger Hullin, Uwe Kuhl, Mathias Pauschinger, Michel Noutsias and Srijita Sen-Chowdhry. 17 Pericardial Diseases. Bernhard Maisch, Jordi Soler-Soler, Liv Hatle and Arsen D. Ristic. 18 Tumours of the Heart. Mary N. Sheppard, Annalisa Angelini, Mohammed Raad and Irina Savelieva. 19 Congenital Heart Disease in Children and Adults. John E. Deanfield, Robert Yates and Vibeke E. Hjortdal. 20 Pregnancy and Heart Disease. Patrizia Presbitero, Giacomo G. Boccuzzi, Christianne J.M. de Groot and Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink. 21 Valvular Heart Disease. Alec Vahanian, Bernard Iung, Luc Pierard, Robert Dion and John Pepper. 22 Infective Endocarditis. Werner G. Daniel and Frank A. Flachskampf. 23 Heart Failure: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Diagnosis. John McMurray, Michel Komajda, Stefan Anker and Roy Gardner. 24 Management of Chronic Heart Failure. Karl Swedberg, Bert Andersson, Christophe Leclercq and Marko Turina. 25 Pulmonary Hypertension. Nazzareno Galie and Gerald Simonneau. 26 Cardiac Rehabilitation. Stephan Gielen, Dirk Brutsaert, Hugo Saner and Rainer Hambrecht. 27 Bradycardia. Lukas Kappenberger, Cecilia Linde and William D. Toff. 28 Supraventricular Tachycardia. Jeronimo Farre, Hein J.J. Wellens, Jose A. Cabrera and Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist. 29 Atrial Fibrillation: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Diagnosis. Harry J.G.M. Crijns, Maurits A. Allessie and Gregory Y.H. Lip. 30 Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment. Etienne Aliot, Christian de Chillou, Pierre Jais and S. Bertil Olsson. 31 Syncope. Michele Brignole, Jean-Jacques Blanc and Richard Sutton. 32 Ventricular Tachycardia. Lars Eckardt, Pedro Brugada, John Morgan and Gunter Breithardt. 33 Sudden Cardiac Death and Resuscitation. Stefan H. Hohnloser, Alessandro Capucci and Peter J. Schwartz. 34 Diseases of the Aorta and Trauma to the Aorta and the Heart. Christoph Nienaber, Axel Haverich and Raimund Erbel. 35 Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease. Giancarlo Biamino, Andrej Schmidt, Iris Baumgartner, Dierk Scheinert, Marco Roffi and Felix Mahler. 36 Venous Thromboembolism. Sebastian M. Schellong, Henri Bounameaux and Harry R. Buller. Index

About the Author

A. John Camm Professor of Clinical Cardiology, St George's Hospital, London, UK Professor Camm graduated from Guy's Hospital, London and went on to pursue his career in cardiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital and then St George's Hospital, London where he is currently Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Division of Cardiological Sciences. He is also Convenor of Medicine, University of London, Trustee of the International Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology and President of the Arrhythmia Alliance. Professor Camm is recognised at internationally for his excellent research and teaching, his particular interests being cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias and implantable devices for rhythm control. Thomas F. Luscher Professor and Head of Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland Professor Luscher studied at the University of Zurich and trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He was Professor of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Basel then Professor of Cardiology at the University of Berne before assuming his current position as Chairman of Cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich. He is also Head of Cardiovascular Research of the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich and is responsible for the entire Cardiology Service at the University Hospital. He has authored or co-authored over 400 original research articles and review articles, and is Associate Editor Europe of Circulation as well as serving on other editorial boards. Professor Luscher's research interests focus on the role of endothelium-derived mediators in the regulation of vascular tone, platelet-vessel wall interaction, and coagulation as well as vascular structure in aging, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerosis. Patrick W. Serruys Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Head of Interventional Department, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Dr Serruys is Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Head of Interventional Department at Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam and directs the Interventional Department there. His primary research interests are coronary artery disease and interventional cardiology, for which he has received numerous awards. He is also a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the Scientific Council of the International College of Angiology. He is Associate Editor of Circulation and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Dr Serruys has published more than 1300 papers and co-edited 31 books.

Reviews

"One of its remarkable achievements in addition to the high standard of writing is its superb illustrations, figures, and tables that appear on virtually every page. They are well placed within the text and contribute in making the book easy and interesting to read. A refreshing new touch to this book is the incorporation in each chapter not only of a succinct summary at the beginning but also a brief personal perspective of the future direction of the field by the authors at the chapter's end. One of the most valuable features of The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine is the electronic version...the editors have provided a solid foundation on which to build an electronic edifice that will not be outdated. They also seem to have mastered the technological state-of-the art such that the user can navigate through any of the 36 chapters from virtually any sentence in the book in a most friendly fashion." Circulation, 2006