Full Description
Experienced clinicians provide a clear, summarized and weighted guide to the large field of internal medicine. All contents of the training regulations for specialists in "Internal Medicine and Cardiology" are covered. The work provides the essentials of the subject. The latest diagnostic and therapeutic concepts are presented, with a focus on the facts relevant to daily patient care. Interdisciplinary topics such as heart and diabetes, heart and brain, heart and sport are also presented. Important key messages and potential errors are highlighted. In addition, the latest studies and guidelines from all important German, European and American specialist societies are taken into account, including the topics of telemedicine in cardiology and cardiac diseases in women.
Contents
Cardiovascular risk factors.- Coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.- Cardiac arrhythmias.- Acute heart failure and pulmonary edema.- Chronic heart failure.- Shock.- Arterial hypertension.- Orthostatic hypotension.- Syncope.- Pulmonary embolism and acute cor pulmonale. Pulmonary embolism and acute cor pulmonale.- Pulmonary hypertension.- Cardiomyopathies.- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.- Immunological heart diseases.- Pathogen-induced endocarditis.- Viral heart diseases.- Diseases of the pericardium.- Congenital heart defects in adults. Congenital heart defects in adulthood.- Acquired heart valve defects.- Diseases of the thoracic aorta.- Cardiac and pericardial tumors.- Pregnancy and heart disease.- The heart in old age.- Cardiac perioperative risk assessment.- Cardiac trauma.- Rare heart diseases.- Heart transplantation.- Assessment and economic aspects in cardiology.- Diabetes and the heart.- Kidney and the heart.- Heart and sport.- Complementary therapy in heart disease.- Regeneration in heart disease.
