Get the tools and knowledge you need for effective diagnosis, evaluation, and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Myocardial Infarction: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease
, by David A. Morrow, MD, is a
comprehensive, hands-on resource
that provides practical guidance from a name you trust. Concise and easy to use, this text explores
the most recent tools for diagnosis and therapeutic decision-making
, as well as
the full range of available management strategies,
providing outcomes data for each strategy.
Myocardial Infarction
also includes regular updates with
late-breaking clinical trials
,
reviews of important new articles
, and
the latest guidance on clinical practice
, all selected and masterfully edited by Dr. Eugene Braunwald.
Provides
thorough discussions
of ECG, established and emerging biochemical markers, angiography, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI and CT.
Features an
extensive treatment section
that covers the latest drugs and most recent clinical trials of antiplatelet therapy, coronary revascularization, gene therapy, and approaches to reperfusion injury and ventricular remodeling.
Discusses special considerations for the
evaluation of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department
, and use of advanced technologies in cardiac critical care.
Covers key topics such as
in-hospital complications, cardiogenic shock, transitions to post-discharge care, and cardiac rehabilitation.
Includes Clinical Practice/Controversy chapters that highlight management-focused, practical topics covering
expert approaches for areas of uncertainty
.
Offers guidance on the
management
of special populations
Online content
includes animations illustrating key pathobiology, including dynamic thrombosis, platelet adherence-activation-aggregation and adverse ventricular remodeling, as well as management strategies and procedural techniques.
Regularly updated Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase.
This
enhanced eBook experience
allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.