Heart Disease in Women (HARDCOVER)  | Released: 31 Jan 2015

• The book provides a thorough analysis of every aspect of heart disease in women, making it an essential reference for all cardiologists and physicians.• Addresses the myths and facts about cardiovascular disease in women.• The book is organised into eight detailed sections, beginning with prevention and risk factors, followed by investigation, diagnosis and management of coronary heart disease. • The following sections cover a other conditions, including heart failure, arrhythmias, rheumatic heart disease, and congenital cardiac lesions in pregnancy. • A complete chapter is dedicated to non-invasive testing, including echocardiography and stress myocardial perfusion imaging. • The final part deals with miscellaneous topics such as the “unmet challenge” of Peripheral Arterial Disease, the use of ankle-brachial index, cardiovascular implications of cancer in women.• A special chapter provides an update on recent literature concerning heart disease in women.• Every chapter starts with Introduction and ends at Conclusion and References.• Discusses history, pathophysiology, clinical features and treatment of every disease condition.• KEY POINTS IN MANAGEMENT has been deliberately explained at relevant places wherever necessary.• Highly illustrated with more than 500 colour images and well-informative tables.• Written by internationally renowned physicians, scientists and cardiologists. About the AuthorNavin C Nanda MD DSc(Hon) Nurgül Keser MD Table of Contents: Table of Contents Section 1: Prevention and Risk Factors 1. Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Myths and Facts about a Silent Epidemic 2. Prevention of Heart Disease in Women 3. Sex Diferences in the Efects of Leading and Most Prevalent Modifable Risk Factors 4. Dyslipidemia in Women 5. Familal Hypercholesterolemia in Women: Its Identifcation and Management 6. Metabolic Syndrome in Women 7. Hypertension in Women 8. Stroke and Women 9. Women and Smoking 10. Job Burnout, Job Stres and Cardiovascular Disease 1. Atherosclerosis and Autoimmune Disease: Mechanisms and Emerging Treatments 12. Hormonal Transitons and the Cardiovascular System in Women Section 2: Coronary Heart Disease 13. A Perspective on Women and Coronary Heart Disease 14. How to Investigate Chest Pain in a Woman 15. Stable Ischemic Heart Disease in Women 16. Acute Coronary Syndromes in Women Section 3: Non-Invasive Testing 17. Echocardiography in Women 18. Non-Invasive Stres Testing in Women 19. Stres Myocardial Perfusion Imaging–Diagnosis and Risk Asesment in Women Section 4: Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Pericarditis 20. Women and Heart Failure 21. Myocardits and Pericardits in Women 2. Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Women Section 5: Arhythmias 23. Arhythmias and Implantable Devices in Women 24. Ventricular Arhythmias in Women: Syncope and Suden Cardiac Death Section 6: Rheumatic Heart Disease: Valvular Heart Disease 25. Rheumatic Heart Disease in Women 26. Native Valvular Disease in Women 27. Gender Diferences in Outcome of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Section 7: Pregnancy Congenital Heart Disease 28. Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy 29. Heart Disease in Pregnancy: A Diferent Perspective 30. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy 31. Congenital Heart Disease in Women Section 8: Miscelaneous 32. Peripheral Arterial Disease in Women: The Unmet Chalenge 3. Cardiovascular Implications of Cancer in Women 34. An Update on Recent Literature on Heart Disease in Women Index