The Cleveland Clinic Cardiology Board Review, 2ed.

SECTION I. FUNDAMENTALS

How to Pass the Cardiovascular Disease Board Exam

Cardiac Physical Examination

Cardiac Anatomy

Cardiovascular Physiology: Flow–Volume Loops

Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology

Cardiac Biochemistry

Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

SECTION II. CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING AND STRESS TESTING

Chest Radiography for the Cardiovascular Medicine Boards

Fundamentals of Doppler Echocardiography

Electrocardiographic Stress Testing

Stress Echocardiography

Nuclear Cardiac Imaging: A Primer

Nuclear Stress Testing

Cardiac MRI and CT

SECTION III. CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY

Pathophysiology of Congestive Heart Failure

Medical Treatment of Heart Failure

Heart Transplantation

Devices for Heart Failure

Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Pulmonary Hypertension

Heart Failure with Normal Ejection Fraction

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

SECTION IV. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult

Essential Echocardiographic Images in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

SECTION V. CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Twelve-Lead Electrocardiography

Electrophysiologic Testing, including His Bundle and Other Intracardiac Electrograms

Sudden Cardiac Death and Ventricular Tachycardia

Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

Supraventricular Tachycardias

Wide-Complex Tachycardia: Ventricular Tachycardia versus Supraventricular Tachycardia

Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Syncope

SECTION VI. VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

Aortic and Pulmonary Valve Disease

Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease

Infective Endocarditis

Prosthetic Valvular Disease

SECTION VII. CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION

Evaluation of Chest Discomfort

Coronary Artery Disease: Demographics and Incidence

Stable Angina: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, Medical Therapy, and Revascularization Strategies

Unstable Coronary Syndromes

Acute Myocardial Infarction

Complications of Myocardial Infarction

Risk Stratification and Post–Myocardial Infarction Therapy

Radiation Safety in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

Hemodynamic Measurements

Catheterization Laboratory Imaging and Functional Assessment

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

SECTION VIII. AORTA/PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

Diseases of the Aorta

Venous Thromboembolism

Peripheral Artery Disease

Carotid Disease

SECTION IX. CLINICAL AND PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY

Hallmarks of Essential and Secondary Hypertension

The Dyslipidemias

Preoperative Evaluation of Cardiac Patients for Noncardiac Surgery

Pregnancy and Heart Disease

Women and Heart Disease

Pericardial Diseases

Effects of Systemic Diseases on the Heart and Cardiovascular System

Cardiac Neoplasms

SECTION X. PHARMACOLOGY

Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Essentials

Cardiovascular Medicine—Essential Pharmaceuticals

Cardiovascular Drug Interactions