Overview
- Only up-to-date clinically oriented textbook available for the diagnosis and management of endocarditis
- Well-structured and easy to follow format presenting clinically relevant critical analysis of the recent studies
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Historical Perspectives and Basic Principles
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Diagnosis and Management Approaches
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Clinical Dilemmas
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About this book
"Endocarditis: Diagnosis and Management" provides an up-to-date approach to the diagnosis and management of endocarditis based on a critical analysis of the recent studies. The book is structured in a format that is easy to follow, clinically relevant and evidence based.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Kwan Chan is a cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He earned a BSc, MSc and his medical degree from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. Chan was certified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine (1983) and Cardiology (1984). He is currently the Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory. His research interests include valvular heart disease, infective endocarditis and aortic diseases. He has a special interest in the application of ultrasound in the study of cardiac structure and function and has been actively involved in CME in this area.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Endocarditis
Book Subtitle: Diagnosis and Management
Editors: Kwan-Leung Chan, John M. Embil
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-453-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6109-7Published: 10 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-453-3Published: 13 December 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Topics: Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine/Public Health, general