Hurst’s The Heart Manual of Cardiology 13th Edition

HURST’S THE HEART MANUAL OF CARDIOLOGY 13TH EDITION
PREFACE
The 13th edition of the Manual of Cardiology provides an up-to-date practical summary of the diagnosis and management of the wide spectrum of patients with cardiovascular disease. It contains useful clinical information relating to heart disease patients for all health care providers, and meets the needs of physicians and students for a concise, portable handbook that can be used any time, day or night, when there is no access to larger reference material (such as the recently published 13th edition of Hurst’s The Heart).
Written by many of the same experts who contributed to the larger textbook, the manual has been extensively revised to include additional material such as myocardial imaging and genetic causes of cardiovascular disease. The manual can also be used as a stand-alone source for quick information concerning the presentation, natural history, and treatment of various cardiovascular disorders. lmportant information from the ACCIAHA Clinical Practice Guidelines is included in many chapters, and this book contains tables and algorithms not available in the larger text, in order to provide the reader with appropriate, easily accessible indications for specifıc therapy.
We express our gratitude to the authors of the individual chapters of this practical concise resource for cardiovascular diagnostics and therapeutics.
Finally we wish to thank our families for their support and the many sacrifıces they made to make this manual possible. We sadly mourn the recent loss of the former editor, friend, and colleague Robert A. O’Rourke.
Hurst’s The Heart Manual of Cardiology 13th Edition
The Editors:
Richard A. Walsh, MD, FACC, FAHA
James C. Fang, MD
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC, FAHA