Overview
- Contributions from experts specialized in valvular heart diseases
- Diagnosis and prevention of the disease aided by colour illustrations
- Provides an overview of what the near future will bring in the diagnosis, prevention and risk stratification of patients to catheter versus surgical approaches
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
The book will be written by the experts in the disease including imaging, interventional cardiology and surgical valve expertise. The book has five main sections:
Aortic Valve Disease
Mitral Valve Disease
Tricuspid Valve Disease
Pulmonic Valve Disease
Multimodality Imaging
The main objectives of the book are:
1- to provide the main guidelines to clinicians on how to identify and diagnose valvular heart disease
2- to provide an overview of what the near future will bring in the diagnosis, prevention and risk stratification of patients to catheter versus surgical approaches
3- to outline the possible implications for medical therapies in slowing progression of calcific aortic valve disease and myxomatous mitral valve disease
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Nalini M. Rajamannan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cardiac Valvular Medicine
Editors: Nalini M. Rajamannan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4132-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4131-0Published: 14 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7197-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4132-7Published: 14 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Cardiac Surgery