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Dr. Peter Libby is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Receiving his medical degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, he undertook a cellular physiology research fellowship at HMS. After a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease, he became board certified in both. He is an editor of the leading cardiovascular medicine textbook, and the author of over 500 peer-reviewed publications, 575 reviews, chapters, etc. He has received funding from the American Heart Association (AHA) and National Institutes of Health, plus recognitions on four continents, including the AHA and American College of Cardiology's highest research awards, the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, the Anitschkow award from the European Atherosclerosis Society, the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine, and the Earl Benditt award for vascular biology.

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  Inhalt

  Part I Foundations of Cardiovascular Medicine

  1. Cardiovascular Disease: Past, Present, and Future
  2. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease
  3. Impact of the Environment on Cardiovascular Health
  4. Clinical Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine
  5. Clinical Decision-Making in Cardiology
  6. Impact of Health Care Policy on Quality, Outcomes, and Equity in Cardiovascular Disease

  Part II Individualizing Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease

  7. Applications of Genetics to Cardiovascular Medicine
  8. Proteomics and Metabolomics in Cardiovascular Medicine
  9. Principles of Drug Therapeutics, Pharmacogenomics, and Biologics
  10. Biomarkers and Use in Precision Medicine
  11. Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine
  12. Wearable Devices in Cardiovascular Medicine

  Part III Evaluation of The Patient

  13. History and Physical Examination: An Evidence-Based Approach
  14. Electrocardiography
  15. Exercise Physiology and Exercise Electrocardiographic Testing
  16. Echocardiography
  17. Chest Radiography in Cardiovascular Disease
  18. Nuclear Cardiology
  19. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  20. Cardiac Computed Tomography
  21. Coronary Angiography and Intravascular Imaging
  22. Invasive Hemodynamic Diagnosis of Cardiac Disease
  23. Anesthesia and Noncardiac Surgery in Patients with Heart Disease

  Part IV Preventive Cardiology

  24. The Vascular Biology of Atherosclerosis
  25. Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
  26. Systemic Hypertension: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
  27. Lipoprotein Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease
  28. Cardiovascular Disease Risk of Nicotine and Tobacco Products
  29. Nutrition and Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
  30. Obesity: Medical and Surgical Management
  31. Diabetes and the Cardiovascular System
  32. Exercise and Sports Cardiology
  33. Comprehensive Cardiac Rehabilitation
  34. Integrative Approaches to the Management of Patients with Heart Disease

  Part V Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

  35. Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain
  36. Coronary Blood Flow and Myocardial Ischemia
  37. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Pathophysiology and Clinical Evolution
  38. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Management
  39. Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
  40. Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
  41. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  42. Diseases of the Aorta
  43. Peripheral Artery Diseases
  44. Treatment of Noncoronary Obstructive Vascular Disease
  45. Prevention and Management of Ischemic Stroke

  Part VI Heart Failure

  46. Mechanisms of Cardiac Contraction and Relaxation
  47. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
  48. Approach to the Patient with Heart Failure
  49. Diagnosis and Management of Acute Heart Failure
  50. Management of Heart Failure Patients with Reduced Ejection Fraction
  51. Heart Failure with Preserved and Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction
  52. The Dilated, Restrictive, and Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies
  53. Cardiac Amyloidosis
  54. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  55. Myocarditis
  56. Cardio-Oncology: Managing Cardiotoxic Effects of Cancer Therapies
  57. Cardio-Oncology: Approach to the Patient
  58. Devices for Monitoring and Managing Heart Failure
  59. Mechanical Circulatory Support
  60. Cardiac Transplantation

  Part VII Arrhythmias, Sudden Death, and Syncope

  61. Approach to the Patient with Cardiac Arrhythmias
  62. Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias
  63. Genetics of Cardiac Arrhythmias
  64. Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias
  65. Supraventricular Tachycardias
  66. Atrial Fibrillation: Clinical Features, Mechanisms, and Management
  67. Ventricular Arrhythmias
  68. Bradyarrhythmias and Atrioventricular Block
  69. Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
  70. Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death
  71. Hypotension and Syncope

  Part VIII Diseases of the Heart Valves

  72. Aortic Valve Stenosis
  73. Aortic Regurgitation
  74. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
  75. Mitral Stenosis
  76. Mitral Regurgitation
  77. Tricuspid, Pulmonic, and Multivalvular Disease
  78. Transcatheter Therapies for Mitral and Tricuspid Valvular Heart Disease
  79. Prosthetic Heart Valves
  80. Infectious Endocarditis and Infections of Indwelling Devices
  81. Rheumatic Fever

  Part IX Diseases of the Myocardium, Pericardium, and Pulmonary Vasculature Bed

  82. Congenita…