Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting

1. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Characterization of Atherosclerotic Disease Risk Factors
Kevin C. Maki, Martyn R. Rubin

2. Arterial Hypertension
Daniel A. Duprez

3. Management of Dyslipidemia
Peter P. Toth

4. Obesity and Therapeutic Approaches to Weight Loss
Robert F. Kushner

5. Inflammatory Markers and Novel Risk Factors
Stephen J. Nicholls

6. Deciphering Cardiovascular Genomics and How They Apply to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Kiran Musunuru

7. The Metabolic Syndrome: 2009
Charles Reasner

8. Chronic Kidney Disease in the Primary Care Setting: Importance for Estimating Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Use of Appropriate Therapies
Matthew R. Weir, Miguel Portocarrero

9. Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia
Joshua M. Kosowsky, Calvin Huang

10. Unstable Angina and Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Ali Mahajerin, Eli V. Gelfand

11. ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Eric R. Bates, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

12. Coronary Artery Stenting
Eric A. Heller, George D. Dangas

13. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Ramanan Umakanthan, Nataliya V. Solenkova, Marzia Leacche, John G. Byrne, Rashid M. Ahmad

14. Cardiac Rehabilitation
William E. Kraus

15. Carotid Artery Disease
Andreas Kastrup

16. Peripheral Arterial Disease
Jay Giri, Emile R. Mohler

17. Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
Adam C. Schaffer, Sylvia C.W. McKean

18. Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale
Mary P. Mullen, Michael J. Landzberg

19. Diagnosis and Management of Ischemic Stroke
Aslam M. Khaja

20. Aortic Aneurysms
Irfan Hameed, Eric M. Isselbacher, Kim A. Eagle

21. Erectile Dysfunction
Thorsten Reffelmann, Robert A. Kloner

22. Valvular Heart Disease
Garrick C. Stewart, Patrick T. O’Gara

23. Pericardial Diseases
Fidencio Saldana, Leonard S. Lilly

24. Common Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias
Blair Foreman

25. Evidence-Based Management of the Patient with Congestive Heart Failure
Nicolas W. Shammas

26. Screening for Coronary Artery Calcium
Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Dalton S. McLean, Stamatios Lerakis, Paolo Raggi

27. Cardiac Computed Tomography
Patrick Donnelly, Udo Hoffmann

28. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
David A. Carballo, Judith L. Meadows, Otavio R. Coelho-Filho, Raymond Y. Kwong

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