With 30 completely new chapters as well as exhaustive updates throughout, the 6 ^th edition of Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, brings you more cutting-edge advances than ever before! 98 world authorities synthesize everything from the newest findings in molecular biology and genetics to the latest imaging modalities, interventional procedures and medications. Two new editors Douglas P. Zipes, MD and Peter Libby, MD, as well as many new contributors, help to ensure that this new edition encompasses all of today's essential knowledge in the field.
 

Reviews

"A magnificent and vast opus"
-- JAMA
(Review Of The Last Edition)

Features

• An increased emphasis on molecular genetics, vascular biology and basic electrophysiology
• The latest non-invasive and invasive examination approaches and diagnostic imaging techniques
• The newest methods for the treatment of heart failure
• An entirely new section devoted to atherosclerosis
• New techniques for the evaluation and management of extracoronary vascular disease and unstable angina

PART I General Considerations of Cardiovascular Disease
PART II Examination if the Patient
PART III Normal and Abnormal Cardiac Function: Heart Failure and Arrhythmias
PART IV Hypertensive and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
PART V Diseases of the Heart, Pericardium and Pulmonary Vascular Bed
PART VI Molecular Biology and Genetics
PART VII Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations
PART VIII Cardiovascular Disease and Disorders of other Organ Systems