Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered is the ideal integrated text to help you recognize, understand and know how to investigate and manage many heart-related disorders and conditions. Written by three practising cardiologists, it leads students through a clinical approach to managing problems with 26 real-world cardiovascular cases. There is strong emphasis on high-quality figures, particularly 12-lead ECGs, as these play such a major role in the evaluation of the cardiac patient. Following a question-answer approach throughout the narrative, with self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered includes sections on cardiac anatomy, physiology and pathology which provide the essentials required to understand clinical cardiology, and is ideal for medical students and junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, specialist nurses and nurse practitioners, and for those with plans for a career in cardiology.

Cardiology: Clinical Cases Uncovered is the ideal integratedtext to help you recognize, understand and know how to investigateand manage many heart-related disorders and conditions. Written bythree practising cardiologists, it leads students througha clinical approach to managing problems with 26 real-worldcardiovascular cases. There is strong emphasis on high-qualityfigures, particularly 12-lead ECGs, as these play such a major rolein the evaluation of the cardiac patient.Following a question-answer approach throughout the narrativewith self-assessment MCQs, EMQs and SAQs, Cardiology: ClinicalCases Uncovered includes sections on cardiac anatomyphysiology and pathology which provide the essentials required tounderstand clinical cardiology, and is ideal for medical studentsand junior doctors on the Foundation Programme, specialist nursesand nurse practitioners, and for those with plans for a career incardiology.

Preface, viiHow to use this book, viiiList of abbreviations, ixPart 1 Basics, 1Basic science, 1Approach to the patient, 23Part 2 Cases, 38Case 1 A 47-year-old man with chest pain, 38Case 2 A 60-year-old heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driverwith chest pain, 48Case 3 An 85-year-old man with collapse, 56Case 4 A 71-year-old man with exertion chest tightness63Case 5 A 50-year-old man with sudden-onset severe centralchest pain, 72Case 6 A 45-year-old man with chest pain andbreathlessness, 77Case 7 A 34-year-old man with chest pain following aviral illness, 84Case 8 An 80-year-old woman with acute severebreathlessness, 90Case 9 A 50-year-old man with exertional breathlessness98Case 10 A 72-year-old woman with breathlessness onexertion, 107Case 11 A 50-year-old man with a murmur, 112Case 12 A 30-year-old man with high blood pressure and aheart murmur, 118Case 13 A 64-year-old man with collapse and a murmur124Case 14 A 34-year-old man with malaise, chest pains andbreathlessness, 130Case 15 A 22-year-old woman with faints, 136Case 16 A 76-year-old woman with blackouts, 142Case 17 A 35-year-old woman with palpitations, 148Case 18 A 42-year-old man with palpitations, 153Case 19 A 64-year-old man with fatigue and palpitations160Case 20 A 24-year-old man with palpitations, 165Case 21 A 77-year-old woman with fatigue and bradycardia171Case 22 A 57-year-old man with collapse, 177Case 23 A 36-year-old woman with a family history ofsudden death, 183Case 24 A 60-year-old man with high blood pressure190Case 25 A 24-year-old woman with visual loss anddysphasia, 196Case 26 A 59-year-old woman with low blood pressure andbreathlessness, 202Part 3 Self-assessment, 208MCQs, 208EMQs, 214SAQs, 224Answers, 228Index of cases by diagnosis, 235Index, 237