September 02, 2010

Doctors from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University have written and published a new, comprehensive guide on heart care titled: Jefferson Heart Institute Handbook of Cardiology.  The medical textbook is geared toward medical students, residents and fellows, internists and cardiologists, offering a concise guide of cardiac disorders and how to treat them. The book will be available in September, 2010.
   
“The Jefferson Heart Institute has such a compilation of expertise that it is an ideal community of cardiologists to write a text book on the clinical care of the patient,” said Paul Mather, M.D., director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Center at the Jefferson Heart Institute and editor of the book. “Our Institute treats thousands of patients each year with every kind of cardiac disorder. We have some of the nations thought leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disorders. We thought it was a good fit to share our knowledge with the next generation of medical care providers.”

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. The Jefferson Heart Institute Handbook of Cardiology addresses several contributing factors and treatments including:

• A comprehensive review of the full range of cardiac disorders
• Cardiac disease risk factors, prevention and management
• Discussions on cardiac imaging
• General principles on cardiac critical care and heart failure
  
  “We cover a lot of ground as concisely as possible in this book,” said Mather.
  
  “This can really benefit a young physician who needs quick access to any one of a myriad of cardiac related topics. One of our missions at Jefferson is to educate. It is our hope that our cardiac expertise summed up in this book further contributes to the education of the next generation of physician.”
     
  
  The book’s full Table of Contents:
  1 Modifying Risk Factors in the Cardiac Patient: Part I - Indranil Das Gupta, MD
  2 Modifying Risk Factors in the Cardiac Patient: Part II - Marc Tecce, MD
  3 General Principles in Cardiac Critical Care - Matthew DeCaro, MD
  4 Heart Failure - Paul Mather, MD & Steve Olex, MD
  5 Evaluation and Treatment of Patients that are Candidates for and Undergoing Orthotopic Heart Transplant - Paul Mather, MD & Steve Olex, MD
  6 Pathophysiology of the Failing Heart-Basic Mechanisms: Cellular and Sub-Cellular Abnormalities - Risto Kerkela & Thomas Force, MD
  7 Hemodynamics - Anish Koka, MD & David L. Fischman, MD
  8 Coronary Interventional Techniques - Nicholas J. Ruggiero II, MD, FACC, Thomas J. Kiernan, MD, & Michael P. Savage, MD
  9 Stress Testing & Nuclear Cardiology - Gregary D. Marhefka, MD & Christopher L. Hansen, MD
  10 Echocardiography - Donna Zwas, MD, Barbara Berko, MD, & Alyson Owen, MD
  11 Cardiac CT & MRI - Alexander Rubin, MD, Ethan J. Halpern, MD, & Christopher G. Roth, MD
  12 Noncardiac Surgery for the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease - Howard Weitz, MD
  13 Bradyarrhythmias and Indications for Pacemaker Implantation - Behzad B. Pavri, MD
  14 Wide QRS Complex Arrhythmias - James M. Yau, MD & Reginald T. Ho, MD
  15 Narrow QRS Complex Arrhythmias - Matthew Stopper, MD & Daniel Frisch, MD
  16 Medical Management of Peripheral Artery Disease - Li Shien Low, MD & Danielle Duffy, MD
  17 Peripheral Artery Disease - Geno J. Merli, MD & George Tzanis, MD
  18 Clinical Research - David J. Whellan, MD, MHS, FACC, Suzanne Adams, RN, MPH, & Sue Russell, MFA