The AHA Guidelines and Scientific Statements Handbook

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The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook The AHA Guidelines and Scientific Statements Handbook Edited by Valentin ...

The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook Edited by Valentin Fuster Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy ...

This edition fi rst published 2009, © 2009 American Heart Association American Heart Association National Center, 7272 Greenvill ...

v Contents Contributors vii Preface x 1 Chronic Stable Angina 1 Theodore D. Fraker, Stephan D. Fihn, and Raymond J. Gibbons 2 Un ...

vi 15 Atrial Fibrillation 244 Valentin Fuster and Lars Rydén 16 Supraventricular Arrhythmias 255 Carina Blomström-Lundqvist and ...

vii Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA Association Chief of Cardiology Cardiology Department LDS Hospital 8th Avenue C Street S ...

viii John Camm, MD Professor of Clinical Cardiology Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences St. George’s University of London ...

ix Mariell Jessup MD, FAHA, FACC Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Heart Failure/Transplant Pr ...

x The American Heart Association (AHA) has pro- duced science consistently for over 75 years. And for over 25 years, based on th ...

xi American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics–2008 Update. Dallas, Tex: American Heart Associa- tion; 2008 ...

Chronic Stable Angina Theodore D. Fraker, Stephan D. Fihn, and Raymond J. Gibbons 1 Introduction Classifi cation of angina pecto ...

The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook oxygen consumption) and subsequent relief with rest or NTG (Table 1.2). T ...

Chapter 1 Chronic Stable Angina Table 1.3 Grading of angina pectoris by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classifi cation Syst ...

The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook sion, and CT, in asymptomatic individuals. Their inclusion in the 2002 gu ...

Chapter 1 Chronic Stable Angina Table 1.5 Pretest likelihood of CAD in symptomatic patients according to age and sex* (combined ...

The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook Class IIa A chest X-ray in patients with signs or symptoms of pulmonary d ...

Chapter 1 Chronic Stable Angina Class III Echocardiography is not recommended in patients with a normal ECG, no history of MI, a ...

The AHA Guidelines and Scientifi c Statements Handbook b. More than 1 mm of ST depression. (Level of Evidence: B) 2 Adenosine or ...

Chapter 1 Chronic Stable Angina 2 Coronary angiography is recommended in patients with severe stable angina (Class 3 or greater ...