Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

Chapter 1. The Burden of Valvular Heart Disease, George A. Mensah Chapter 2. Clinical Pathology of Valvular Heart Disease, William Clifford Roberts and Jong Mi Ko Chapter 3. Cellular, Molecular and Genetic Mechanisms of Valvular Heart Disease, Nalini Marie Rajamannan Chapter 4. Left Ventricular Adaptation to Pressure and/or Volume Overload, Blase A. Carabello Chapter 5. Evaluation of Valvular Heart Disease by Echocardiography, Catherine M. Otto Chapter 6. Evaluation of Valvular Heart Disease by Cardiac Catheterization and Angiocardiography, David M. Shavelle Chapter 7. Evaluation of Valvular Heart Disease by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography, Mario J. Garcia Chapter 8. Basic Principles of Medical Therapy in the Patient with Valvular Heart Disease, Catherine M. Otto Chapter 9. Aortic Stenosis, Raphael Rosenhek and Helmut Baumgartner Chapter 10. Aortic Regurgitation, Pilar Tornos and Robert O. Bonow Chapter 11. The Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Alan C. Braverman and Michael A. Beardslee Chapter 12. Surgical Approach to Aortic Valve Disease, Paul Stelzer and David H. Adams Chapter 13. Percutaneous Aortic Valve Implantation, Brad Munt Chapter 14. Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease, Bernard Iung and Alec Vahanian Chapter 15. Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease, Brian Griffin Chapter 16. Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation, Robert A. Levine, MD, Ronen Beeri, MD, Yutaka Otsuji, MD, and Ehud Schwammenthal, MD Chapter 17. Mitral Regurgitation: Timing of Surgery,Rick A. Nishimura and Hartzell V. Schaff Chapter 18. Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement, Including Associated Atrial Fibrillation and Tricuspid Regurgitation, Patrick M. McCarthy and S. Chris Malaisrie Chapter 19. Percutaneous Transcatheter Intervention for Mitral Regurgitation, Peter C. Block Chapter 20. Intraoperative Echocardiography for Mitral Valve Disease, Pravin M. Shah Chapter 21. Right-Sided Valve Disease, Charles J. Bruce and Heidi M. Connolly Chapter 22. Infective Endocarditis, Thomas M. Bashore Chapter 23. Prosthetic Heart Valves, Patrick T. O'Gara Chapter 24. Valve Disease in Children, L. LuAnn Minich, Lloyd Y. Tani, Richard V. Williams, and Michael D. Puchalski Chapter 25. Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy, Karen Stout