ABSTRACT

Despite being one of the world's biggest killers of women, heart disease is under-diagnosed, under-treated, and under-managed. Why? What is going wrong?

Important and ground-breaking, Women and Heart Disease brings our attention to the inadequacies in both the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in women.

Key features:

* written by Nanette Wenger and Peter Collins, two of the worlds leading cardiologists
* contributions from leaders in women‘s cardiac health
* covers all aspects of cardiovascular disease, not just coronary artery disease
* fully updated.

Building on the success of the best-selling first edition, this is essential reading for all physicians with a particular interest in women and heart disease.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part 1 Coronary Heart Disease

chapter 15|13 pages

Cardiac syndrome X

chapter 16|10 pages

Silent ischemia in women

chapter 18|19 pages

Acute coronary syndromes

chapter 20|14 pages

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery

part |2 pages

Part 2 Pregnancy/Hormonal Therapies

part |2 pages

Part 3 Heart Failure

chapter 28|23 pages

Diastolic dysfunction

chapter 29|18 pages

Heart failure in women

chapter 30|7 pages

Cardiac transplantation

part |2 pages

Part 4 Other Cardiovascular Diseases

chapter 31|17 pages

Hypertension