Essentials Of Postgraduate Cardiology

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Contributors
Preface
Contents
1 . Jugular Venous Pulse:
2 .How to Measure Blood Pressure
3. Peripheral Signs of Aortic
4. Clinical Examination in Atrial Fibrillation
5.  Continuous Murmur
6. Dynamic Auscultation
7 Challenges in the Diagnosisand Management of AcuteRheumatic Fever
8 Pathogenesis of  Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease, What have we Learned?
9. Decline of Rheumatic HeartDisease: Is it Real?
10 Clinical Assessment of Severityof Valvular Heart Disease
11 Subclinical RheumaticHeart Disease
12 Natural History of Mitral andAortic Valve Regurgitation
13 Natural History of RheumaticMitral Stenosis
14 Percutaneous TransvenousMitral Commissurotomy:Tips and Tricks
15 Clinical Diagnosis of TricuspidValve Disease
16 Atrial Fibrillation in RheumaticHeart Disease
17 Prevention of Rheumatic Fever/Rheumatic Heart Disease
18 Newer Valve Guidelines:What Suits Indians andWhat does not?
19 Role of Two- and Threedimensional Echocardiographyin Valvular Lesions
20 Pitfalls in Assessment ofValvular Heart Disease
21 Nonrheumatic MitralRegurgitation
22 Bicuspid Aortic Valve in 2018:What we Must Know?
23 Low-gradient Aortic Stenosis
24 Infective Endocarditis:What is New?
25 Prophylaxis for InfectiveEndocarditis in India
26 Mechanical Prosthetic ValveThrombosis
27 Percutaneous ValveInterventions beyondTranscatheter AorticValve Implantation
28 Epidemiology of CongenitalHeart Disease in India
29 Assessment of Congenital HeartDefects with Left-to-Right Shuntsand Pulmonary Hypertension forOperability
30 Pregnancy and CongenitalHeart Disease
31 A Simplified Approach to theManagement of Congenitally CorrectedTransposition of Great Arteries
32 ECG in Pediatric Cardiology
33 Chest X-ray in CongenitalHeart Disease
34 Traps and Pitfalls inEchocardiographic Diagnosis ofCongenital Heart Disease
35 Fetal Echocardiography: CurrentStatus and Role in Managementof Congenital Heart Defects
36 Advances in CT Angiographyfor Congenital Heart Disease
37 Best Use of Cardiac MRI inCongenital Heart Disease
38 Natural History of VentricularSeptal Defect
39 Ventricular Septal Defect withAortic Regurgitation
40 Imaging of Atrial Septal Defect
41 Lutembacher’s Syndrome
42 Which Device for which PatentDuctus Arteriosus?
43 Aneurysms of the Sinusesof Valsalva
44 Coarctation of Aorta in Adults:Diagnosis and Current ManagementStrategies
45 Approach to Cyanosisin Newborn
46 Cyanosis in Adults
47 Eisenmenger Syndrome:An Update
48 Adults with RepairedTetralogy of Fallot
49 Single Ventricle Pathway:Simplified
50 Fontan Circulation: Simplified
51 Ebstein’s Anomaly:What’s New?
52 Total Anomalous PulmonaryVenous Connection:An Overview
53 Pulmonary ArteriovenousMalformations
54 Systemic Effects of Cyanosis
55 Outcomes of DilatedCardiomyopathy in 2018
56 Genetics of Cardiomyopathies:An Overview
57 Noninvasive Evaluation ofSuspected Heart MuscleDisease
58 Curable Forms of VentricularDysfunction
59 Myocarditis: An Update
60 Tachycardiomyopathy
61 The Role of CardiovascularMagnetic Resonance in RiskStratification of HypertrophicCardiomyopathy
62 Constrictive Pericarditis andRestrictive Cardiomyopathy:How to Differentiate?
63 Tubercular Pericarditis
64 Surgery for Chronic ConstrictivePericarditis, TuberculousPericarditis and EffusiveConstrictive Pericarditis
65 An Update on RestrictiveCardiomyopathy
66 Tropical EndomyocardialFibrosis? A Vanishing CuriousDisease
67 Cardiac Amyloidosis:Diagnosis and Management
68 Cardiac Sarcoidosis
69 Imaging and Classification ofTakayasu’s Arteritis
70 Immunotherapy forNonspecific Aortoarteritis
71 Interventions in TakayasuArteritis(Nonspecific Aortoarteritis)
72 Aortic Diseases: When toProceed with Surgery?
73 Aortic Diseases: When and Howto Proceed for InterventionalManagement?
74 Pulmonary Embolism:When to do What?
75 Evaluation of PulmonaryHypertension: A SimplifiedAlgorithm
76 Recent Advances in theManagement of IdiopathicPulmonary Artery Hypertension
77 Kawasaki Disease:What We Should Know?
78 Common Pitfalls and Artifactsin ECG Interpretation
79 Computerized ECGs:Strengths and Limitations
80 ECG Assessment ofSupraventricular Tachycardia
81 ECG Assessment of WideQRS Tachycardia
82 Atrioventricular Block:Diagnosing the Level of Block
83 STEMI Equivalents
84 Recent Advances inEchocardiographic StrainImaging
85 Hemodynamic Assessment inthe Cardiac CatheterizationLaboratory
86 Interpretation ofCatheterization Traces
87 Interpreting a NuclearStress Test
88 Cardiac Tumors: PracticalApproach and Management
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