Cardiovascular disorders

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  1. Approach to the Cardiac patient
    1. Introduction to the Approach to the Cardiac Patient
    2. Cardiovascular Examination
    3. Cardiac Auscultation
  2. Symptoms of Cardiovascular Disorders
    1. Chest Pain
    2. Edema
    3. Limb Pain
    4. Orthostatic Hypotension
    5. Palpitations
    6. Syncope
  3. Cardiovascular Tests and Procedures
    1. Cardiac Catheterization
    2. Cardiac Imaging Tests
    3. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
    4. Echocardiography
    5. Electrophysiologic Studies (EPS)
    6. Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
    7. Radionuclide Imaging of the Heart
    8. Stress Testing
    9. Tilt Table Testing
  4. Arrhythmias and conduction disorders
    1. Overview of Arrhythmias
    2. Drugs for Arrhythmias
    3. Direct-Current (DC) Cardioversion-Defibrillation
    4. Cardiac Pacemakers
    5. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
    6. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD)
    7. Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmia
    8. Atrial Fibrillation
    9. Atrial Fibrillation and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW)
    10. Atrial Flutter
    11. Atrioventricular Block
    12. Brugada Syndrome
    13. Bundle Branch Block and Fascicular Block
    14. Ectopic Supraventricular Rhythms
    15. Long QT Syndrome and Torsades de Pointes Ventricular Tachycardia
    16. Reentrant Supraventricular Tachycardias (SVT) including Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
    17. Sinus Node Dysfunction (Sick Sinus Syndrome)
    18. Ventricular Fibrillation (VF)
    19. Ventricular Premature Beats (VPB)
    20. Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
  5. Atherosclerosis
    1. Atherosclerosis
    2. Nonatheromatous Arteriosclerosis
  6. Cardiac Tumors
    1. Cardiac Tumors
  7. Cardiomyopathies
    1. Overview of Cardiomyopathies
    2. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
    3. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    4. Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
  8. Coronary Artery Disease
    1. Overview of Coronary Artery Disease
    2. Angina Pectoris
    3. Microvascular Angina
    4. Variant Angina (Prinzmetal Angina)
    5. Overview of Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
    6. Unstable Angina (Acute Coronary Insufficiency; Preinfarction Angina; Intermediate Syndrome)
    7. Acute Myocardial Infarction (MI)
    8. Complications of Acute Coronary Syndromes
    9. Drugs for Acute Coronary Syndromes
    10. Revascularization for Acute Coronary Syndromes
  9. Diseases of the Aorta and Its Branches
    1. Overview of Aortic Aneurysms
    2. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA)
    3. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
    4. Aortic Branch Aneurysms
    5. Aortic Dissection
    6. Aortitis
    7. Abdominal Aortic Branch Occlusion
  10. Endocarditis
    1. Infective Endocarditis
    2. Noninfective Endocarditis
  11. Heart failure (HF)
    1. Heart Failure (HF)
    2. Drugs for Heart Failure
    3. Pulmonary Edema
    4. Cor Pulmonale
  12. Hypertension
    1. Hypertension
    2. Drugs for hypertension
    3. Hypertensive Emergencies
    4. Renovascular Hypertension
  13. Lymphatic Disorders
    1. Overview of the Lymphatic System
    2. Lymphadenopathy
    3. Lymphedema
  14. Myocarditis and Pericarditis
    1. Myocarditis
    2. Pericarditis
  15. Peripheral arterial disorders
    1. Acrocyanosis
    2. Erythromelalgia
    3. Fibromuscular Dysplasia
    4. Peripheral Arterial Aneurysms
    5. Peripheral Arterial Disease
    6. Acute Peripheral Arterial Occlusion
    7. Raynaud Syndrome
    8. Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger Disease)
  16. Peripheral venous disorders
    1. Arteriovenous Fistula
    2. Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Postphlebitic Syndrome
    3. Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)
    4. Drugs for Deep Venous Thrombosis
    5. Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) Prevention
    6. Idiopathic Telangiectasias
    7. Superficial Venous Thrombosis
    8. Varicose Veins
  17. Sports and the heart
    1. Athlete’s Heart
    2. Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes
  18. Valvular disorders (Heart valve disorders)
    1. Overview of Cardiac Valvular Disorders
    2. Aortic Regurgitation (Aortic Insufficiency)
    3. Aortic Stenosis
    4. Mitral Regurgitation (Mitral Insufficiency)
    5. Mitral Stenosis
    6. Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)
    7. Pulmonic Regurgitation
    8. Pulmonic Stenosis
    9. Tricuspid Regurgitation (Tricuspid Insufficiency; Tricuspid Incompetence)
    10. Tricuspid Stenosis