Table of Contents

1: Coronary Heart Disease
1: Dr Kim Smolderen, Dr Amin, Dr Suzanne Arnold, Dr Donna Buchanan, Dr Paul Chan, Dr David Cohen, Dr Mikhail Kosiborod, Dr Nestor Mercado, Dr Adam Salisbury, Dr Lakshmi Venkitachalam and Professor John Spertus: Epidemiology, Outcomes and Quality of Care
2: Dr Adie Viljoen and Dr Anthony Wierzbicki: Lipids and Cardiovascular Disease
3: Dr Kalpa De Silva and Dr Divaka Perera: Physiology of Myocardial Ischaemia
4: Dr Paul Gurbel, Dr Dean Kereiakes and Dr Udaya Tantry: Thrombosis, Haemostasis and Platelet Biology
5: Dr William Moody and Professor Bernard Gersh: Medical versus Invasive Management of Coronary Heart Disease
6: Dr Nalyaka Sambu and Professor Nicholas Curzen: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
7: Dr Richard Varcoe and Dr Robert Henderson: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
2: Cardiac Electrophysiology and Heart Rhythm Disturbances
8: Dr Fu Siong Ng and Professor Nicholas Peters: Epidemiology and Molecular Foundation
9: Dr Luke Tapp and Professor Gregory Y.H. Lip: Atrial Fibrillation
10: Dr James Harrison, Dr Nick Linton, Dr Matthew Wright and Dr Mark O'Neill: Percutaneous Intervention
11: Dr Boon Lim and Dr Pier Lambiase: Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Therapy
3: Heart Failure
12: Dr Kaushik Guha and Professor Theresa McDonagh: Epidemiology
13: Dr Jamal Khan, Dr Tania Pawade and Professor John Cleland: Medical Management
14: Dr Ricardo Petraco, Dr Larry Mulligan and Dr Francisco Leyva: Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy
15: Dr Julian Ormerod and Professor Michael Frenneaux: Non-Ischaemic Cardiomyopathy
16: Dr William Davies and Dr Jayan Parameshwar: Cardiac Failure and Transplantation
4: Hypertension
17: Dr Kaleab Asrress and Professor Bryan Williams: Systemic Arterial Hypertension
18: Dr Christopher Valerio and Dr Gerry Coghlan: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
5: Valvular Heart Disease
19: Dr Hasan Jilaihawi, Dr Natalia Briceno, Dr Joerg Seeburger and Professor Friedrich Mohr: Epidemiology and Intervention
20: Dr James Harrison and Dr Bernard Prendergast: Endocarditis
6: Cardiac Imaging
21: Dr Christopher Steadman and Professor Mark Monaghan: Echocardiography
22: Dr Manish Motwani, Dr Roy Jogiya and Dr Sven Plein: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
23: Dr Srikanth Iyengar and Professor Carl Roobottom: Cardiac Computed Tomography
7: Congential Heart Disease
24: Dr Alexander Opotowsky, Dr Angela Yetman and Professor Gary Webb: Congenital Heart Disease
8: Obstetric Cardiology
25: Dr John Fryearson and Dr Dawn Adamson: Obstetric Cardiology
9: Cardiac Rehabilitation
26: Dr Randal Thomas, Dr Aung Myat, Dr Tushar Otescha and Dr Ray Squires: Cardiac Rehabilitation

About the Author

Dr Aung Myat is currently a BHF Clinical Research Training Fellow in Coronary Physiology working in The Rayne Institute at St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London. He is a Specialist Registrar in the West Midlands Deanery Cardiology Training Programme but has taken time out of formal training to undertake a postgraduate PhD degree. Prior to this he completed his general medical rotation in Nottingham, culminating in the attainment of his MRCP from the Royal
College of Physicians in London. He is heavily involved in medical education and research having published a number of articles, book chapters, and organized national symposia. He has also been co-opted as
a Member of the Communication and Education Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society. Tony Gershlick is Consultant Cardiologist at Universtiy Hospitals of Leicester, and has a personal chair as Professor of Interventional Cardiology, University of Leicester. He received his BSc in Pharmacological Biochemistry at St Mary's Hospital and then went on train in London for MB BS, MRCP, and junior cardiology training at the London and London Chest Hospitals. He was appointed to the University
Hospitals of Leicester in 1990 and awarded a personal Chair in Interventional cardiology 2008. Professor Gershlick is Chairman, R&D Committee for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He is
also part of the BCIS Audit Group, and since 1995 he has been a Council Member with BCIS with special responsibilities for research. He has published > 130 peer review papers multiple book chapters and editorials. His major clinical interests are in chronic total occlusions and acute coronary syndromes.

Reviews

' Landmark Papers in Cardiovascular Medicine represents an outstanding collection of articles and associated commentary. [it] will be of great interest to those who practice or study cardiovascular medicine. For the physician in training, [it] provides the perfect preparation to quote the relevant medical literature on rounds and appear erudite (and, in fact, be erudite). I hope you find the book as stimulating, educational, and exciting as I did.' - Professor Deepak Bhatt, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiology, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA

For anyone who's grown tired of the usual textbooks, guidelines and reading of review articles on the web, this is a brilliant alternative ... the must-have Christmas or Easter gift for cardiologists and internists.
*Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, March 2013*