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Book coverPart I: General concepts and critical appraisal
Salim Yusuf, Editor

1 What is evidence-based cardiology?
PJ Devereaux, R Brian Haynes, Salim Yusuf

2 A critical appraisal of the cardiovascular history and physical examination
Akbar Panju, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Jim Nishikawa, Deborah Cook, Allan Kitching

3 Obtaining incremental information from diagnostic tests
Raymond J Gibbons

4 Clinical trials and meta-analysis
Colin Baigent

5 Finding current best evidence to practice evidence-based cardiology
Dereck L Hunt, K Ann McKibbon, R Brian Haynes

6 Understanding concepts related to health economics
Mark Hlatky

7 Introduction to decision analysis
Kevin A Schulman, Henry A Glick, Allan S Detsky

8 Assessing and changing cardiovascular clinical practices
C David Naylor, David A Alter

Part II: Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Salim Yusuf, Editor

9 Global perspective on cardiovascular disease
K Srinath Reddy

10 Tobacco: global burden and community solutions
Terry F Pechacek, Samira Asma, Nicole Blair, Michael P Eriksen

11 Tobacco and cardiovascular disease: achieving smoking cessation
Godfrey H Fowler

12 Lipids and cardiovascular disease
Malcolm Law

13 Use of lipid lowering agents in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
Jeffrey L Probstfield

14 Blood pressure and cardiovascular disease
Curt D Furberg, Bruce M Psaty

15 Glucose abnormalities and cardiovascular disease: "dysglycemia" as an emerging cardiovascular risk factor
Sarah E Capes, Hertzel C Gerstein

16 Physical activity and exercise in cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation
Erika S Froelicher, Roberta K Oka, Gerald F Fletcher

17 Psychosocial factors in the primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: an updated systematic review of prospective cohort studies
Harry Hemingway, Hannah Kuper, Michael Marmot

18 Emerging approaches in cardiovascular prevention
Eva M Lonn, Marek Smieja, Salim Yusuf

19 Obesity
Arya M Sharma

20 Postmenopausal hormone therapy and cardiovascular disease
Jacques E Rossouw

21 Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease
Sonia S Anand, Stephanie Ounpuu, Salim Yusuf

22 The fetal origins of coronary heart disease
David JP Barker

23 Molecular genetics of cardiovascular disorders
AJ Marian, Robert Roberts

24 Cost effectiveness of prevention of cardiovascular disease
Daniel B Mark

25 Diet and cardiovascular disease
K Srinath Reddy

Part IIIa: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Stable coronary artery disease
Bernard J Gersh and John A Cairns, Editors

26 Anti-ischemic drugs
Lionel H Opie

27 Impact of revascularization procedures in chronic coronary artery disease on clinical outcomes: a critical review of the evidence
Charanjit S Rihal, Dominic Raco, Bernard J Gersh, Salim Yusuf

28 Adjunctive medical therapy in percutaneous coronary intervention
James L Velianou, Ronald R van der Wieken, Maarten M Simoons

29 Restenosis: etiologies and prevention
Giuseppe Sangiorgi, David R Holmes, Robert S Schwartz

Part IIIb: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Acute ischemic syndromes and acute myocardial infarction
John A Cairns and Bernard J Gersh, Editors

30 Acute non-ST-segment elevation coronary syndromes: unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Pierre Theroux, John A Cairns

31 Fibrinolytic therapy
James S Zebrack, Jeffrey L Anderson

32 Mechanical reperfusion strategies in patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction
Sanjaya Khanal, W Douglas Weaver

33 Adjunctive antithrombotic therapy for ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction
John K French, Harvey D White

34 Pain relief, general management, and other adjunctive treatments
Aldo P Maggioni, Roberto Latini, Gianni Tognoni, Peter Sleight

35 Complications after myocardial infarction
Peter L Thompson, Barry McKeown

36 An integrated approach to the management of patients after the early phase of the acute coronary syndromes
Desmond G Julian

Part IIIc: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Atrial fibrillation and supraventricular tachycardia
A John Camm and John A Cairns, Editors

37 Atrial fibrillation: antiarrhythmic therapy
Harry JGM Crijns, Isabelle C Van Gelder, Irina Savelieva, A John Camm

38 Atrial fibrillation: antithrombotic therapy
John A Cairns

39 Atrial fibrillation: non-pharmacologic therapies
Sanjeev Saksena, Andrew J Einstein

40 Supraventricular tachycardia: drugs v ablation
Neil R Grubb, Peter Kowey

Part IIId: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Ventricular arrhythmias, bradyarrhythmias and cardiac arrest
A John Camm, Editor

41 Prevention and treatment of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia and sudden death
Eugene Crystal, Stuart J Connolly, Paul Dorian

42 Impact of pacemakers: when and what kind?
William D Toff, A John Camm

43 Syncope
David G Benditt, Cengiz Ermis, Keith G Lurie, Scott Sakaguchi

44 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Nicola E Schiebel, Roger D White

Part IIIe: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Left ventricular dysfunction
Salim Yusuf, Editor

45 Prevention of congestive heart failure and treatment of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction
RS McKelvie, CR Benedict, Salim Yusuf

46 Management of overt heart failure
Bert Andersson, Karl Swedberg

47 Acute myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy
Barbara A Pisani, John F Carlquist

48 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Perry M Elliott, Rajesh Thaman, William J McKenna

49 Other cardiomyopathies
José A Marin-Neto, Marcus Vinícius Simões, Benedito Carlos Maciel

Part IIIf: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Pericardial disease
Bernard J Gersh, Editor

50 Pericardial disease: an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and treatment
Bongani M Mayosi, James A Volmink, Patrick J Commerford

Part IIIg: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Valvular heart disease
Bernard J Gersh, Editor

51 Rheumatic heart disease: prevention and acute treatment
Edmund AW Brice, Patrick J Commerford

52 Mitral valve disease: indications for surgery
Blasé A Carabello

53 Indications for surgery in aortic valve disease
Heidi M Connolly, Shahbudin H Rahimtoola

54 Balloon valvuloplasty: aortic valve
Daniel J Diver, Jeffrey A Breall

55 Balloon valvuloplasty: mitral valve
Zoltan G Turi

56 Valve repair and choice of valves
Paul J Pearson, Hartzell V Schaff

57 Diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis
David T Durack, Michael L Towns

58 Antithrombotic therapy after heart valve replacement
Alexander GG Turpie, Walter Ageno

Part IIIh: Specific cardiovascular disorders: Other conditions
Bernard J Gersh and Salim Yusuf, Editors

59 Treatment of patients with stroke
Craig S Anderson

60 Heart disease and pregnancy
Samuel C Siu, Jack M Colman

61 Venous thromboembolic disease
Clive Kearon, Jeffrey S Ginsberg, Jack Hirsh

62 Peripheral vascular disease
Jesper Swedenborg, Jan Östergren

Part IV: Clinical applications
Ernest L Fallen, Editor

63 Clinical applications of external evidence
Ernest L Fallen, Salim Yusuf

64 Stable angina: choice of PCI v CABG v drugs
Douglas A Holder

65 Acute coronary syndromes
George J Philippides

66 Acute myocardial infarction
Bryan F Dias, Ernest L Fallen

67 Postmyocardial infarction: preventive measures
Ernest L Fallen

68 Metabolic risk and secondary prevention of coronary disease
Jacques Genest Jr

69 Peripheral vascular disease with suspect coronary artery disease
Peter C Spittell

70 Heart failure
Michael M Givertz

71 Atrial fibrillation
Michael Klein

72 Ventricular dysrhythmias: pharmacologic v non-pharmacologic treatment
L Brent Mitchell

73 Bradyarrhythmias: choice of pacemaker
John A Boone

74 Valvular heart disease: timing of surgery
Adrian P Banning, Brian B Gribbin

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