Includes bibliographical references and index.

Atherosclerosis risk factors / J. Michael Gaziano and Peter Libby -- Acute coronary syndromes / Eliott Antman -- Chronic ischemic heart disease / David A. Morrow -- Vascular disease / Mark A. Creager -- Heart failure / Michael M. Givertz and Wilson S. Colucci -- Cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, and pericardial disease / Kenneth L. Baughman -- Arrhythmias / Laurence M. Epstein ... [et al.] -- Hypertension / Norman K. Hollenberg and Peter Libby -- Valvular heart disease / Patrick T. O'Gara -- Adult congenital heart disease / Anne Marie Valente, Michael J. Landzberg, and Andrew J. Powell -- Pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac tumors / Samuel Z. Goldhaber and Gregory Piazza -- Interventional cardiology / Pinak B. Shah ... [et al.] -- Echocardiography / Judy Mangion and Scott D. Solomon -- Nuclear cardiology / Marcelo F. Di Carli, Vasken Dilsizian, and Jagat Narula -- Cardiac computed tomography / Matthew J. Budoff and Marcelo F. Di Carli -- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging / Raymond Y. Kwong.