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By
Richard Katz, MD, FACC, Professor of Medicine, Director of Division of Cardiology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
Henry Purcell, MB, PhD, Senior Fellow in Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Included in series
Churchill's In Clinical Practice,
Description
This title, which contains contributions from Europe in addition to the USA and Canada, distills and organizes the maze of clinical data
on the diagnosis, risk stratification, treatment, and prevention of acute coronary syndromes. The book discusses pragmatically how to
treat NSTEMI and STEMI, looking at some of the oldest drugs available, such as aspirin, through to the new thrombin inhibitors, lytics
and such like. The book flags up many of the developments in the fields of inflammation, infection, reversal of endothelial dysfunction,
thrombolysis versus primary angioplasty and so forth, and presents the evidence to support the rapidly evolving guidelines.
Contents
Foreword Professor Kim Fox
Definitions: epidemiology and prognosis
Pathophysiology
- plaque rupture
- inflammation
and ACS
- platelets and the coagulation system
Diagnosis
- clinical signs and symptoms
- chest pain evaluation
- resting
12-lead ECG
- cardiac enzymes and biomarkers
- risk stratification
- inflammatory and other prognostic markers
- exercise
testing
- radionuclide testing
- coronary angiography
Prevention of ACS
Current management
- site-based algorithms
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rationale for specific treatments
- oral antiplatelet therapies (aspirin and thienopyridines)
- anti-thrombin therapies
(heparin)
(low
molecular weight heparin)
(direct thrombin inhibitors)
Intravenous anti-platelet therapy
glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors
Anti-ischaemic therapies
- nitrates
- beta blockers
- calcium blockers
- nicorandil
Medical revascularisation
Disease
modifying agents
- statins in ACS
- ACE inhibitors
- Do anti-infectives play a role?
Treatment of acute myocardial infarction
(STEMI)
Clinical Cases
Appendix 1 – Drug tables
Appendix 2 – Useful websites and addresses
References
Index
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Paperback, 168 pages, publication date: MAR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10296-7
ISBN-10: 0-443-10296-1
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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