This book provides concise, clinically focused coverage of the major disease entities and therapeutic challenges in cardiology. It covers all the important management issues in cardiology ; Includes special topics such as pregnancy and heart disease, the use of anticoagulants in heart disease, and the perioperative evaluation of heart disease patients ; Logically organized into six sections: Prevention of cardiovascular disease, Ischemic heart disease, Arrhythmias, Valvular disease, Cardiomyopathy and heart failure and Systemic diseases & the heart.