PartⅠ General Considerations of Cardiovascular Disease CHAPTER 1 Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease CHAPTER 2 Economics and Cardiovascular Disease CHAPTER 3 Clinical Decision-Making in Cardiology CHAPTER 4 Measurement and improvement of Quality of Cardiovascular Care CHAPTER 5 The Principles of Drug Therapy CHAPTER 6 Care of Patients with End-Stage Heart Disease PARTⅡ Examination of the Patient CHAPTER 7 The History CHAPTER 8 Physical Examination of the Heart and Circulation CHAPTER 9 Electrocardiography CHAPTER 10 Exercise Stress Testing CHAPTER 11 Echocardiography CHAPTER 12 The Chest Radiograph in Cardiovascular Disease CHAPTER 13 Nuclear Cardiology CHAPTER 14 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance CHAPTER 15 Compute Tomography of the Heart CHAPTER 16 Relative Merits of Cardiac Diagnostic Techniques CHAPTER 17 Cardiac Catheterization CHAPTER 18 Coronary Angiography and intravascular Ultrasound imaging PARTⅢ Heart Failure PARTⅣ Arrhythmias,Sudden Death,and Syncope PARTⅤ Preventive Cardiology PARTⅥ Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease PARTⅦ Diseases of the Heart,Pericardium,and Pulmonary Vasculature Bed PARTⅧ Molecular Biology and Genetice PARTⅨ Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations PARTⅩ Cardiovascular Disease and Disorders of Other Organs Disclosure index Index