Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Atrial Septal Morphology and its Implications for Interatrial Communication
(Rohit S. Loomba, Diane Spicer, and Robert H. Anderson, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Division of Cardiology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and others)
Chapter 2
Atrial Septal Defects in Adults – Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation and Preliminary Diagnostics
(Agnieszka Kuczaj and Piotr Józef Stryjewski, II Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine with Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and others)
Chapter 3
Imaging of Atrial Septal Defects
(Deepa Prasad, Ravi Ashwath and Prabhakar Rajiah, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies and children Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and others)
Chapter 4
Constrictive Pericarditis: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, Imaging, Treatment & Prognosis
(Ali Nawaz Khan, Prabhakar Rajiah, Sumaira Macdonald, Durr-e-Sabih, Consultant Radiologist/Professor Honorary North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK, and others)
Chapter 5
Cardiac Tamponade: Pathophysiology, Etiology, Epidemiology, Prognosis, Symptomatology, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnoses, Laboratory Studies, Imaging, Electrocardiography, Pericardiocentesis & Surgical Treatment
(Ali Nawaz Khan, Prabhakar Rajiah, Sumaira Macdonald, Durr-e-Sabih, Consultant Radiologist/Professor Honorary
North Manchester General Hospital, UK, and others)
Chapter 6
Cardiac Arrest and Following Psychological Distress in Patients and Their Caregivers
(Alessia Frigerio and Angelo Compare, Department of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)
Chapter 7
Current Clinical Utility and Limitations of Angiography and Intracoronary Multi-modality Imaging in the Era of Drug-eluting Coronary Stents
(Shigenori Ito, Kosuke Nakasuka, Masahiko Inomata, Takayuki Yoshida, Nozomu Tamai, Tomoaki Saeki and Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Division of Cardiology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, and others)
Chapter 8
Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction and Spasm after Stent Implantation
(Shigenori Ito, Tatsuya Mizoguchi, Kosuke Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Ohmori, Masahiko Inomata, Takayuki Yoshida, Nozomu Tamai, Tomoaki Saeki, Akihiro Morino, Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Division of Cardiology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, and others)
Chapter 9
Type D Personality and Illness Behaviors
(Claudia Elia Giulio Simonelli and Angelo Compare, Department of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo BG, Italy)
Index
