Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 1

Douglas P. Zipes, Peter Libby, Robert O. Bonow, Douglas L. Mann, Eugene Braunwald, Gordon F. Tomaselli

Elsevier, 2019 - Medical - 1944 pages

Trusted by generations of cardiologists for the latest, most reliable guidance in the field, Braunwald's Heart Disease, 11th Edition, remains your #1 source of information on rapidly changing clinical science, clinical and translational research, and evidence-based medicine. This award-winning text has been completely updated, providing a superior multimedia reference for every aspect of this fast-changing field, including new material about almost every topic in cardiology.

• A unique update program by Dr. Braunwald creates a "living textbook" by featuring weekly Hot off the Press and periodic Late-Breaking Clinical Trials (including links to authors' presentation slides).

• More than a dozen new chapters cover Chronic Lung Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease; Transcatheter Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease; Approach to the Patient with Valvular Heart Disease; Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease; Environmental Exposures and CVD; Approach to the Patient with Cardiac Arrhythmias; Cardio-oncology, Precision Medicine, and more.
• New information on clinical cardiovascular genetics; MR PET; MR device compatibility; fibrosis; fusion imaging; OCT; IVUS; left atrial appendage exclusion approaches and other topics.
• Many new videos that elucidate coronary, peripheral, valvular, congenital heart diseases and other cardiovascular diseases.
• Expert ConsultT eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

About the author

Peter Libby, MD, will assume the role of lead editor on the 12th edition. Dr Libby previously edited the 8th edition. He is Senior Advisor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He is a world-renowned leader in cardiology

Bibliographic information

• Title: Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 1; Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Gordon F. Tomaselli
• Editors: Douglas P. Zipes, Peter Libby, Robert O. Bonow, Douglas L. Mann, Eugene Braunwald, Gordon F. Tomaselli
• Edition: 11, illustrated
• Publisher: Elsevier, 2019
• ISBN: 0323462995, 9780323462990
• Length: 1944 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Cardiology