PART Ⅰ EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT CHAPTER 1 THE HISTORY EUGENE BRAUNWALD CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF THE HEART AND CIRCULATION JOSEPH K.PERLOFF and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 3 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY HARVEY FEIGENBAUM CHAPTER 4 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY CHARLES FISCH CHAPTER 5 EXERCISE STRESS TESTING BERNARD R.CHAITMAN CHAPTER 6 CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION CHARLES J.DAVIDSON,ROBERT F.FISHMAN,and ROBERT O.BONOW CHAPTER 7 RADIOLOGY OF THE HEART ROBERT M.STEINER and DAVID C.LEVIN CHAPTER 8 CORONARY ARTERIOGRAPHY JOHN A.BITTL and DAVID C.LEVIN CHAPTER 9 NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY FRANS J.TH.WACKERS,ROBERT SOUFER,and BARRY L.ZARET CHAPTER 10 NEWER CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES:MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CHARLES B.HIGGINS CHAPTER 11 RELATIVE MERITS OF IMAGING TECHNIQUES DAVID J.SKORTON,BRUCE H.BRUNDAGE,HEINRICH R.SCHELBERT,and GERALD L.WOLF PART Ⅱ NORMAL AND ABNORMAL CIRCULATORY FUNCTION CHAPTER 12 MECHANI5MS OF CARDIAC CONTRACTION AND RELAXATION LIONEL H.OPIE CHAPTER 13 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HEART FAILURE WILSON S.COLUCCI and EUGENE BRAUNWALD CHAPTER 14 ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC FUNCTION WILLIAM C.LITTLE and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 15 CLINICAL ASPECTS OF HEART FAILURE:HIGH-OUTPUT HEART FAILURE;PULMONARY EDEMA EUGENE BRAUNWALD,WILSON S.COLUCCI,and WILLIAM GROSSMAN CHAPTER 16 DRUGS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF HEART FAILURE RALPH A.KELLY and THOMAS W.SMITH CHAPTER 17 MANAGEMENT OF HEART FAILURE THOMAS W.SMITH,RALPH A.KELLY,LYNNE WARNER STEVENSON,and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 18 HEART AND HEART-LUNG TRANSPLANTATION MARK G.PERLROTH and BRUCE A.REITZ CHAPTER 19 ASSISTED CIRCULATION AND THE MECHANICAL HEART WAYNE E.RICHENBACHER and WILLIAM S.PIERCE CHAPTER 20 GENESIS OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS:ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS DOUGLAS P.ZIPES CHAPTER 21 MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS:PHARMACOLOGICAL,ELECTRICAL,AND SURGICAL TECHNIQUES DOUGLAS P.ZIPES CHAPTER 22 SPECIFIC ARRHYTHMIAS:DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT DOUGLAS P.ZIPES CHAPTER 23 CARDIAC PACEMAKERS AND ANTIARRHYTHMIC DEVICES S.SERGE BAROLD and DOUGLAS P.ZIPES CHAPTER 24 CARDIAC ARREST AND SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH ROBERT J.MYERBURG and AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS CHAPTER 25 PULMONARY HYPERTENSION STUART RICH,EUGENE BRAUNWALD,and WILLIAM GROSSMAN CHAPTER 26 SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION:MECHANISMS AND DIAGNOSIS NORM AN M.KAPLAN CHAPTER 27 SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION:THERAPY NORMAN M.KAPLAN CHAPTER 28 SYNCOPE AND HYPOTENSION WISHWA N.KAPOOR PART Ⅲ DISEASES OF THE HEART,PERICARDIUM,AORTA,AND PULMONARY VASCULAR BED CHAPTER 29 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD WILLIAM F.FRIEDMAN CHAPTER 30 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IN ADULTS JOSEPH K.PERLOFF CHAPTER 31 ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD WILLIAM F.FRIEDMAN CHAPTER 32 VALVULAR HEART DISEASE EUGENE BRAUNWALD CHAPTER 33 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS ADOLF W.KARCHMER CHAPTER 34 THE PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS RUSSELL ROSS CHAPTER 35 DYSLIPIDEMIA AND OTHER RISK FACTORS FOR CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE JOHN A.FARMER and ANTONIO M.GOTTO,JR. CHAPTER 36 CORONARY BLOOD FLOW AND MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA PETER GANZ and EUGENE BRAUNWALD CHAPTER 37 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ELLIOTT M.ANTMAN and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 38 CHRONIC CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE BERNARD J. GERSH,EUGENE BRAUNWALD,and JOHN D.RUTHERFORD CHAPTER 39 INTERVENTIONAL CATHETERIZATION TECHNIQUES A.MICHAEL LINCOFF and ERIC J. TOPOL CHAPTER 40 REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE CHARLES DENNIS CHAPTER 41 THE CARDIOMYOPATHIES AND MYOCARDITIDES JOSHUA WYNNE and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 42 PRIMARY TUMORS OF THE HEART WILSON S.COLUCCI,FREDERICK J.SCHOEN,and EUGENE BR4UNWALD CHAPTER 43 PERICARDIAL DISEASES BEVERLY H.LORELL CHAPTER 44 TRAUMATIC HEART DISEASE PETER F.COHN and EUGENE BRA UNWALD CHAPTER 45 DISEASES OF THE AORTA ERIC M.ISSELBACHER,KIM A.EAGLE,and ROMAN W.DESANCTIS CHAPTER 46 PULMONARY EMBOLISM SAMUEL Z.GOLDHABER CHAPTER 47 COR PULMONALE HERBERT P.WIEDEMANN and RICHARDA.MATTHAY PART Ⅳ BROADER PERSPECTIVES ON HEART DISEASE AND CARDIOLOGIC PRACTICE CHAPTER 48 PRINCIPLES OF CARDIOVASCULAR MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY KENNETH R.CHIEN and ANDREW A.GRACE CHAPTER 49 GENETICS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE REED E.PYERITZ CHAPTER 50 THE AGING HEART:STRUCTURE,FUNCTION,AND DISEASE EDWARD G.LAKATTA,GARY GERSTENBLI7H,and MYRON L.WEISFELDT CHAPTER 51 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN WOMEN PAMELA S.DOUGLAS CHAPTER 52 MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT UNDERGOING CARDIAC SURGERY ELLIOTT M.ANTMAN CHAPTER 53 COST-EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES IN CARDIOLOGY LEE GOLDMAN PART Ⅴ HEART DISEASE AND DISORDERS OF OTHER ORGAN SYSTEMS CHAPTER 54 GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND NONCARDIAC SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH HEART DISEASE LEE GOLDMAN CHAPTER 55 RHEUMATIC FEVER ADNAN S.DAJANI CHAPTER 56 RHEUMATIC DISEASES AND THE HEART JONATHAN S.GOBLYN and MICHAEL E.WEINBL4TT CHAPTER 57 HEMATOLOGIC-ONCOLOGIC DISORDERS AND HEART DISEASE LAWRENCEN. SHULMAN,EUGENE BRA UNWALD,and DAVID S.ROSENTHAL CHAPTER 58 HEMOSTASIS,THROMBOSIS,FIBRINOLYSIS,AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE VALENTIN FUSTER and MARK VERSTRAETE CHAPTER 59 PREGNANCY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE URI ELKAYAM CHAPTER 60 NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS AND HEART DISEASE JOSEPH K.PERLOFF CHAPTER 61 THE HEART IN ENDOCRINE AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS GORDON H.WILLIAMS,LEONARD S.LILLY,and ELLEN W.SEELY CHAPTER 62 RENAL DISORDERS AND HEART DISEASE CARL V.LEIER and HARISIOS BOUDOULAS CHAPTER 63 PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE THOMAS H.LEE INDEX