Acute Coronary Care Principles and Practice [Paperback]

I. Pathophysiology of Ischemic Heart Disease.- 1. Factors that Regulate Transmural Myocardial Blood Flow Distribution.- 2. The Relationship between Coronary Blood Flow and Reversible and Irreversible Ischemic Injury.- 3. Energy Metabolism and Transport in the ischemic and Postischemic Myocardium.- 4. The Pathophysiology of Atherosclerosis of the Coronary Arteries and Changes that Predispose to Ischemic Heart Disease.- 5. The Role of Coronary Artery Spasm in Acute Ischemic Syndromes.- 6. The Role of Thrombosis in Acute Myocardial Ischemic Syndromes.- 7. The Biochemistry of Thrombolytic Agents.- 8. Clinical Pharmacology of Streptokinase.- 9. Terminology for Location of Acute Myocardial Infarcts.- 10. Subendocardial versus Transmural Infarction: Anatomic and Electrocardiographic Considerations.- 11. Hemodynamic Abnormalities in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 12. Autonomic Imbalance during Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction.- II. The Prediction and Prevention of Acute Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction.- 13. The Changing Prognosis of Patients with Unstable Angina and Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 14. Risk Factors that Predict Fatal and Nonfatal Cardiac Events.- 15. The Role of Nutrition in Atherogenesis and Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 16. The Role of Antithrombotic Therapy in the Acute Ischemic Syndromes.- 17. Clinical Trials of Modification of Mortality during Acute Myocardial Infarction.- III. Methods for Diagnosing and Sizing Myocardial Infarctions.- 18. Serum CK-MB in Diagnosis and Assessment of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 19. The Ability of the QRS Complex to Determine the Location and Size of Myocardial Infarcts.- 20. Radionuclide Techniques for Diagnosing and Sizing of Myocardial Infarction.- 21. The Clinical Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Infarction.- IV. Methods for Monitoring the Patient with Acute Myocardial Ischemia.- 22. Hemodynamic Monitoring in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- 23. The Use of Echocardiographic Techniques for Determining Cardiac Functl3í