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Providing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of every area of contemporary cardiovascular medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Review is an excellent tool for learning and reviewing key concepts in major areas of cardiology. The ThirdEdition contains fully revised content, review questions used on the board exam. A new, easy-to-follow chapter template facilitates quick review and retention of the material.

• Emphasizes board-relevant clinical material and accurate, real-world clinical decision making.
• Covers every major topic you’ll encounter on certification and recertification exams, including congenital heart disease, electrophysiology, valvular heart disease, vascular disease, and pharmacology, and more.
• Presents review questions with each chapter for thorough exam preparation and self-assessment.
• Uses a new, consistent format for most chapters: introduction, clinical presentation, diagnosis, algorithm, treatment, suggested readings, and questions/answers.
• Written by distinguished clinicians from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and based on the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s popular annual Intensive Review of Cardiology course. 

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The Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Board Review Third Edition : Table of contents

Contributing Authors vi

Preface xi

I

FUNDAMENTALS 1

1 How to Pass the Cardiovascular Disease Board

Examination 1

John Rickard and Grant W. Reed

2 Cardiac Physical Examination 4

Craig R. Asher

3 Cardiac Anatomy 26

Samir R. Kapadia and Nishant P . Shah

4 Cardiovascular Physiology: Flow–Volume Loops 37

Richard D. Meredith and Michael D. Faulx

5 Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology 49

Patrick J. Tchou

6 Cardiac Biochemistry 56

Robert A. Koeth and Venu Menon

7 Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics 63

Sneha Vakamudi and Paul C. Cremer

II

CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING AND STRESS

TESTING 71

8 Chest Radiography for the Cardiovascular

Medicine Boards 71

Albree Tower-Rader and Michael A. Bolen

9 Doppler Echocardiography 85

Bo Xu and Christine Jellis

10 Electrocardiographic Stress Testing 98

Philip Aagaard and Haitham Ahmed

11 Stress Echocardiography 106

Abhinav Sharma and L. Leonardo Rodriguez

12 Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: A Primer 114

Aldo L. Schenone, Paul C. Cremer, and Wael A. Jaber

13 Cardiac MRI and CT 132

James L. Gentry III and Milind Y. Desai

III

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND

CARDIOMYOPATHY 153

14 Pathophysiology of Heart Failure 153

Varinder Kaur Randhawa, Ashley Bock, and J. Emanuel Finet

15 Medical Treatment of Heart Failure 164

Chonyang L. Albert and Jerry D. Estep

16 Heart Transplantation 180

Kartik S. Telukuntla, Matthew Gonzalez, and Eileen Hsich

17 Devices for Heart Failure 198

Pavan Bhat and Maria M. Mountis

18 Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy 212

Zachary J. Il’Giovine and Sanjeeb Bhattacharya

19 Pulmonary Hypertension 225

Kartik S. Telukuntla and Miriam Jacob

20 Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection

Fraction 239

Albree Tower-Rader and Allan L. Klein

21 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 250

Sneha Vakamudi and Harry M. Lever

IV

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 265

22 Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult 265

Joshua Saef and Joanna Ghobrial

23 Echocardiography in Congenital Heart

Disease 283

Serge C. Harb and Christine Jellis

V

CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 303

24 Twelve-Lead Electrocardiography 303

Peter T. Hu and Ajay Bhargava

25 Electrophysiologic Testing, Including His Bundle

and Other Intracardiac Electrograms 365

Kevin M. Trulock and Thomas D. Callahan IV26 Sudden Cardiac Death and Ventricular

Tachycardia 390

Cameron T. Lambert, Daniel J. Cantillon, and Oussama Wazni

27 Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter 400

Ayman A. Hussein and Mohamed Kanj

28 Supraventricular Tachycardias 417

Andrew E. Noll and Mandeep Bhargava

29 Wide Complex Tachycardia: Ventricular

Tachycardia versus Supraventricular

Tachycardia 430

Adam Grimaldi and Walid Saliba

30 Pacemakers and Defibrillators 445

Divyang Patel, Bruce L. Wilkoff, and Khaldoun G. Tarakji

31 Syncope 461

Erika Hutt-Centeno, Jeffrey S. Hedley, and Kenneth A. Mayuga

VI

VALVULAR HEART DISEASE 473

32 Aortic and Pulmonary Valve Disease 473

Richard D. Meredith, Amar Krishnaswamy, and Brian P . Griffin

33 Mitral Valve and Tricuspid Valve Disease 488

Bo Xu and Serge C. Harb

34 Infective Endocarditis 509

Andrew R. Higgins and Steven M. Gordon

35 Prosthetic Valve Disease 522

Preethi Mani and Paul C. Cremer

VII

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND CARDIAC

CATHETERIZATION 533

36 Evaluation of Chest Discomfort 533

David M. Nemer and Wael A. Jaber

37 Coronary Artery Disease: Epidemiology 543

Calvin Chen Sheng and Leslie Cho

38 Stable Angina: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification,

Medical Therapy, and Revascularization

Strategies 554

Chetan P . Huded and Conrad C. Simpfendorfer

39 Unstable Coronary Syndrome 576

Jonathan D. Hansen and A. Michael Lincoff

40 Acute Myocardial Infarction 595

Venu Menon and Chetan P . Huded

41 Complications of Myocardial Infarction 614

Thomas M. Das and Venu Menon

42 Risk Stratification and Post–Myocardial Infarction

Therapy 631

Nyal E. Borges and Samir R. Kapadia

43 Radiation Safety in the Cardiac Catheterization

Laboratory 646

Rayji S. Tsutsui and Samir R. Kapadia

44 Hemodynamic Measurements 658

Jeffrey E. Rossi and Amar Krishnaswamy

45 Catheterization Laboratory Imaging and

Functional Assessment 675

Anirudh Kumar and Samir R. Kapadia

46 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention 689

Claire E. Raphael and Stephen G. Ellis

VIII

AORTA/PERIPHERAL VASCULAR HEART

DISEASE 711

47 Diseases of the Aorta 711

Grant Henderson and Vidyasagar Kalahasti

48 Venous Thromboembolism 725

Erika Hutt-Centeno and Marcelo Gomes

49 Peripheral Artery Disease 743

Nikolaos Spilias and Joseph D. Campbell

50 Carotid Disease 757

Jimmy Kerrigan, Deborah Kerrigan, and Joseph D. Campbell

IX

CLINICAL AND PREVENTATIVE

CARDIOLOGY 777

51 Hallmarks of Primary and Secondary

Hypertension 777

Luke J. Laffin and Leslie Cho

52 The Dyslipidemias 798

Nishant P . Shah and Leslie Cho

53 Preoperative Evaluation of Cardiac Patients for

Noncardiac Surgery 819

Laura Young and Ajay Bhargava

54 Pregnancy and Heart Disease 829

Zarina M. Sharalaya and Russell E. Raymond

55 Women and Heart Disease 845

Ashley Bock and Leslie Cho56 Pericardial Diseases 857

Michael Chetrit and Allan L. Klein

57 Effects of Systemic Diseases on the Heart and

Cardiovascular System 870

Jeffrey S. Hedley and Michael D. Faulx

58 Cardiac Neoplasms 882

Eoin Donnellan and Brian P . Griffin

X

PHARMACOLOGY 891

59 Cardiovascular Drug Interactions 891

Aldo L. Schenone and Michael A. Militello

XI

MISCELLANEOUS 901

60 Patent Foramen Ovale and Atrial Septal Defect

Closure 901

Kara Denby, Anirudh Kumar, and Joanna Ghobrial

61 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement 910

Grant W. Reed, Samir R. Kapadia, and Amar Krishnaswamy

62 Percutaneous Mitral Interventions 922

Vinayak Nagaraja and Samir R. Kapadia

63 Genetics and Heart Disease 934

Kartik S. Telukuntla, Christina Rigelsky, and Kenneth G. Zahka

64 Summary of Important Guidelines 943

Vinayak Nagaraja and Samir R. Kapadia

65 Sports Cardiology 948

Kyle Mandsager and Dermot Phelan

66 Cardio-oncology 959

Eoin Donnellan, Muzna Hussain, and Patrick Collier

Appendix (Common Formulae) 967

Shady Nakhla and Venu Menon

Index 971

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