A concise, highly visual approach to the basic science and clinical pathology of the cardiovascular system. Provides a highly visual guide to the heart and blood vessels, from basic science, anatomy, and physiology to pathology and injury.

A comprehensive reference covering the major disease entities and therapeutic challenges in cardiology. Each chapter discusses diagnostic techniques, prevention strategies, treatment, and prognosis, enhanced by illustrations, ECGs, imaging studies, drawings, graphs, and charts.

Features question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style. Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice. Several hundred illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams.

Provides a fundamental knowledge of the basic operating principles of the intact cardiovascular system and how those principles apply to clinical medicine.

Provides coverage of new drugs, new guidelines, more powerful imaging modalities, and recent developments in precision medicine that continue to advance the practice of cardiovascular medicine.

Reflecting the latest technical, therapeutic, and clinical advances, this book provides concise summaries of major new trials and guidelines.