Handbook of Clinical Cardiology: Pathophysiology, Diagnostic Imaging & Therapeutics for Internal Medicine Residents - Softcover

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Turn Cardiovascular Signals into Defensible Clinical Action

This 2026 handbook connects cardiovascular physiology to the decisions made at the bedside, in the imaging suite, during acute stabilization, and across long-term follow-up. Written for internal medicine residents, fellows, and clinicians who need mechanism-based clarity, it moves from examination and electrocardiography through coronary disease, heart failure, valve disorders, arrhythmias, pulmonary vascular disease, congenital conditions, pregnancy, cardio-oncology, intervention, surgery, and digital care.

The Cardiac Signal-to-Action System links each recognizable finding to its physiologic meaning, diagnostic pivot, treatment threshold, safety trap, and immediate action anchor.

Use the handbook to strengthen these point-of-care capabilities:

Bedside examination and symptom architecture -- connect murmurs, pulses, venous waveforms, congestion, and perfusion to chamber physiology

ECG and ambulatory monitoring -- distinguish conduction disease, ischemic patterns, atrial arrhythmias, wide-complex tachycardia, and artifact

Multimodality imaging and hemodynamics -- select and reconcile echocardiography, CT, MRI, nuclear testing, and invasive pressure data

Coronary prevention and acute care -- integrate risk, biomarkers, reperfusion urgency, antithrombotic safety, and secondary prevention

Heart failure and structural disease -- interpret loading conditions, ventricular remodeling, valve severity, cardiomyopathy phenotype, and intervention timing

Critical cardiovascular stabilization -- phenotype syncope, shock, right ventricular failure, tamponade, and acute aortic syndromes

Procedural and longitudinal care -- anticipate device, catheter, surgical, rehabilitation, pregnancy, cancer-treatment, and follow-up decisions

Build a repeatable cardiovascular reasoning discipline that remains useful as evidence, technology, and treatment options evolve.

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