Drugs for the Heart: Expert Consult - Online and Print

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Jan 23, 2013 - Medical - 588 pages

Drugs for the Heart presents highly portable, up-to-date information on every drug class used to treat cardiovascular disease. Drs. Lionel H. Opie and Bernard J. Gersh put the latest dosages, interactions, indications and contraindications, side effects, and more at your fingertips, equipping you to make effective clinical decisions on behalf of your patients

  • Quickly check when to use each drug for any condition with the popular "Which Drug for Which Disease" chapter.
  • Get expert advice from the practice-proven experience of two well-known editors who represent the best possible combination of clinical and research expertise in cardiovascular therapeutics.
  • Expedite your reference with summaries of each drug class at the end of chapters.
  • Carry it with you anywhere thanks to a highly compact, pocket-sized format.
  • Navigate the latest pharmacologic advances through coverage of the newest drugs and drug classes, as well as all the latest clinical trial results and evidence used to treat heart disease.
  • Effectively manage comorbid diseases.
  • Apply international insights into cardiac drugs, thanks to new global contributors.
  • Visualize key pharmacologic and physiologic actions thanks to dynamic new full-color drawings.
  • Access the complete contents online at Expert Consult, with regular online updates posted by leading cardiologist, Dr. Opie.
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Contents

1 βblocking agents
1
2 Nitrates and newer antianginals
38
3 Calcium channel blockers
64
4 Diuretics
93
5 Inhibitors of the reninangiotensinaldosterone system
119
6 Heart failure
169
7 Antihypertensive therapies
224
8 Antiarrhythmic drugs and strategies
272
Platelet inhibitors acute anticoagulants fibrinolytics and chronic anticoagulants
332
10 Lipidmodifying and antiatherosclerotic drugs
398
11 Metabolic syndrome hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes
436
12 Which therapy for which condition?
463
Index
542
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