Cardiology
Significant advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in the last 10 years, it gives grounds for a book to be published in our country, which, together with the classics, will present the essential and practically applicable achievements of modern cardiology.
The structure of the proposed book "Cardiology' is traditional and corresponds to clinical guidance with a practical focus.
In the first volume "General part - diagnostic methods and main clinical syndromes", the functions of the heart in normal and pathological conditions, history, physical examination and clinical symptomatology, non-invasive research methods - clinical electrocardiography, phonocardiography and sound findings, pulse recordings, thoracic and cardioroentgenography, echocardiography with all modern variants, ECG tests with physical exertion, radionuclide cardiodiagnostics.
Then the clinic, diagnosis and treatment of the main clinical syndromes in cardiology are examined in detail - heart failure, chronic and acute (cardiogenic shock, acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema), heart rhythm disorders (tachyarrhythmias and bradyarrhythmias), antiarrhythmic drugs, proarrhythmia.
The second volume of the "Cardiology" manual includes: arterial hypertension, endothelial function in the norm and pathology (endothelial dysfunction), atherosclerosis and atherogenic dyslipidemias, risks for coronary heart disease, chronic and acute ischemic heart disease - stable angina pectoris, silent myocardial ischemia, unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction without 5T-segment elevation, acute myocardial infarction with 3T-segment elevation, complications of acute myocardial infarction, assessment of prognosis after acute myocardial infarction, prevention (primary and secondary) of ischemic heart disease. The last chapter is devoted to sudden cardiac death.
The author's collective includes long-term collaborators of the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, now the National Specialized Cardiology Hospital (NSKB), who have extensive clinical experience and modern knowledge in the field of clinical cardiology, modern instrumental diagnostic and therapeutic knowledge and experience, technical instrumental skills, preoperative diagnostics and indications for cardiosurgical treatment, participation in postoperative follow-up of patients with valve prosthetics, operative or instrumental (PTCA, stenting), coronary revascularization, pacemaker therapy, interventional catheter ablation therapeutic arrhythmology, etc.
The authors of this guide have many years of teaching experience with doctors specializing in cardiology, as well as involvement in student teaching of groups of recent medical courses. In addition, for years they have carried out systematic, good-level research work of a clinically applied nature in the field of cardiology and the implementation of new, valuable instrumental invasive and non-invasive research methods, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
