SECTION I *Introduction 1. The GlobalBurden ofCardiovascular Diseases Catherine P.Benziger, Andrew E. Moran,Gregory A. Roth, and George A. Mensah 2.ClinicalCardiovascular Examination William R.Miranda and Rick A.

Nishimura 3.CardiovascularImaging Techniques Thomas H.Marwick and Jagat Narula 4.Genomics andEpigenomics of Heart Diseases June-Wha Rheeand Joseph C. Wu SECTION II *Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease 5.Epidemiology,Pathophysiology, and Treatment of Hypertension Michael E.Hall, John E. Hall, and Paul K.

Whelton 6.CardiometabolicDisease: Insulin Resistance, Obesity, and the MetabolicSyndrome W. TimothyGarvey and Jeffrey I. Mechanick 7.Diabetes andCardiovascular Disease Jeffrey I.Mechanick and Michael E. Farkouh 8.Tobacco-RelatedCardiovascular Disease Nancy A.

Rigotti, Sara Kalkhoran, and NealL. Benowitz 9.Air Pollutionand Cardiovascular Disease Michael B.Hadley and Sanjay Rajagopalan 10.Hypercholesterolemia,Hyperlipoprotein(A), Hypertriglyceridemia, and Low HDL Robert S.Rosenson, Marlys L. Koschinsky,Børge G. Nordestgaard, and Robert A.

Hegele 11.PsychologicalFactors in Cardiovascular Health and Disease Darwin R.Labarthe and Rosalba Hernandez 12.SedentaryLifestyle and Role of Exercise in Cardiovascular Diseases AmbarishPandey, Nitin Kondamudi, and CarlJ. Lavie 13.Nutrition,Diet, and Alcohol in Health and Cardiovascular Disease MartaGuasch-Ferré and Frank Hu 14.Inflammationand Atherosclerosis Hasan K.Siddiqi and Paul M.

Ridker 15.Location andLevel of Care, Education, Availability of Medicines, andCardiovascularMortality Rajeev Gupta,Philip Joseph, AnnikaRosengren, and Salim Yusuf SECTION III* Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease 16.Pathologyand Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis and its Progression Jagat Narula,Erling Falk, and ValentinFuster 17.Pathogenesisof Coronary Thrombosis and Myocardial Infarction Gemma Vilahur,Valentín Fuster, and BorjaIbanez 18.ST-ElevationMyocardial Infarction (STEMI) Borja Ibanez, ManeshPatel, InésGarcía-Lunar, Usman Baber, Jonathan Halperin, and Valentin Fuster 19.Evaluationand Management of Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes Eric R. Bates,David J. Moliterno, andManesh R.

Patel 20.Mimickers ofAtherosclerotic Myocardial Infarction: SCAD, Coronary Vasospasm,Myocarditis,and Takotsubo Syndrome Jacqueline Saw,Jaya Chandrasekhar, SarahZaman, and Harmony Reynolds 21.ChronicCoronary Syndromes SripalBangalore, Ziad Ali, Jagat Narula,John Puskas, and Gregg W. Stone 22.CardiacRehabilitation: Current Practice and Future Directions Alan Rozanski,Saman Setareh-Shenas, andJagat Narula SECTION IV *Diseases of the Great Vessels and Peripheral Vessels 23.Diseases ofthe Aorta John A.Elefteriades, Bulat A. Ziganshin,and Jonathan L.

Halperin 24.CarotidArtery Disease Christopher J.White 25.CerebrovascularDisease Hugo J.Aparicio, Vasileios Lioutas, ThanhN. Nguyen, and Sudha Seshadri 26.Diagnosisand Management of Diseases of the Peripheral Arteries HillaryJohnston-Cox, Daniella Kadian-Dodov,and Jeffrey W. Olin SECTION V *Valvular Heart Disease 27.

AcuteRheumatic Fever Liesl Zühlke,Jagat Narula, Mark Engel, andJonathan R. Carapetis 28.AorticStenosis Marie-AnnickClavel, Marc R. Dweck, Martin Leon,and Philippe Pibarot 29.AorticRegurgitation, Mixed Valvular Heart Disease, and Heart Valve Prostheses PatrizioLancellotti, Alexandra Chitroceanu,Simona Sperlongano, Raluca Dulgheru, andAdriana Postolache 30.MitralRegurgitation Jeroen J. Bax,Nina Ajmone Marsan, Pietervan der Bijl, Hendrik Treede, Michele DeBonis,Bernard Prendergast, BernardIung, and Victoria Delgado 31.AcquiredTricuspid Valve Diseases Luigi P.

Badano, Ana Pardo, Denisa Muraru,and Jose Louis Zamorano 32.MitralStenosis Vinay K. Bahland Ravi S. Math 33.InfectiveEndocarditis Ann F. Bolger SECTION VI *Rhythm and Conduction Abnormalities 34.ElectrophysiologicAnatomy, Mechanisms of Arrhythmias and ConductionDisturbances, and Genetics Peng-ShengChen, MD, Siew Yen Ho, Silvia G.Priori, and Charles Antzelevitch 35.

SupraventricularTachycardia: Atrial Tachycardia, Atrioventricular NodalReentry, andWolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome David Spraggand Hugh Calkins 36.AtrialFibrillation and Atrial Flutter Anne B. Curtis,Tina Baykaner, and Sanjiv M.Narayan 37.VentricularArrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death Justin Hayase,Kalyanam Shivkumar, and JasonS. Bradfield 38.ConductionSystem Disturbances and Bradyarrhythmias PugazhendhiVijayaraman, Jeffrey Arkles,Jayanthi N. Koneru, and David J.

Callans 39.Diagnosisand Management of Syncope Zachary D.Goldberger, Mohammed Ruzieh, andBlair P. Grubb SECTION VII* Heart Failure 40.Classificationof Cardiomyopathies EloisaArbustini, Barry J. Maron, NavneetNarula, and Jagat Narula 41.DilatedCardiomyopathy EloisaArbustini, Alessandro Di Toro,Lorenzo Giuliani, Mario Urtis, G. William Dec,and Jagat Narula 42.

HypertrophicCardiomyopathy MassimilianoLorenzini and Perry M. Elliott 43.CardiacAmyloidosis Morie A. Gertz,Jagat Narula, EdgarArgulian, and Sumeet S. Mitter 44.RestrictiveHeart Diseases EloisaArbustini, Alessandro Di Toro,Lorenzo Giuliani, G. William Dec, and JagatNarula 45.LeftVentricular Noncompaction EloisaArbustini, Alessandra Serio, LorenzoGiuliani, Nupoor Narula, and Alessandro DiToro 46.

Myocarditis EloisaArbustini, Alessandro Di Toro, MarioUrtis, Sean Pinney, and Jagat Narula 47.Obstructiveand Nonobstructive Coronary Disease in Heart Failure Charlotte Leeand G. William Dec 48.Diagnosisand Management of Chronic Heart Failure MuhammadShahzeb Khan, Muthiah Vaduganathan,and Javed Butler 49.Diagnosisand Management of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction João PedroFerreira, Kavita Sharma, andJaved Butler 50.Evaluationand Management of Acute Heart Failure Kiran Mahmood,Eric J. Velazquez, andAnuradha Lala 51.PeripartumCardiomyopathy Uri Elkayam andJena Pizula 52.

SurgicalManagement of the Severe Heart Failure Patient: Mechanical CirculatorySupportand Heart Transplantation Adam D. DeVore,Michelle M. Kittleson,Carmelo A. Milano, Jignesh K. Patel, Joseph G. Rogers,and Jon A. Kobashigawa SECTION VIII* Diseases of the Pericardium 53.AcutePericarditis James W.

Lloyd,Sushil Allen Luis, Zi Ye,and Jae K. Oh 54.PercardialEffusion and Tamponade Darryl J.Burstow, Sushil Allen Luis, GarvanC. Kane, and Jae K. Oh 55.ConstrictivePericarditis William R.Miranda, Kevin L.

Greason, JohnM. Stulak, and Jae K. Oh SECTION IX *Cardiopulmonary Disease 56.Diagnosisand Management of Diseases of the Peripheral Venous System DaniellaKadian-Dodov, Hillary Johnston-Cox,and Jeffrey W. Olin 57.Pulmonary Hypertension Yogesh N. V.Reddy and Barry A.

Borlaug 58.PulmonaryEmbolism Victor F.Tapson 59.CorPulmonale: The Heart in Structural Lung Disease Lewis J. Rubin 60.Sleep-DisorderedBreathing ShahrokhJavaheri , Dirk Pevernagie, and AliJavaheri SECTION X *Critical Cardiovascular Care 61.Evolution ofCardiac Critical Care Venu Menon andPenelope Rampersad 62.Circulatoryand Cardiogenic Shock Gregory Serrao,Benjamin Bier, and UmeshGidwani 63.

SuddenCardiac Death and Resuscitation Sanjiv M.Narayan and James P. Daubert 64.Postoperativeand Postprocedural Care in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Venu Menon SECTION XI *Adult Congenital Heart Disease 65.Anatomicaland Physiological Classification of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Jasmine Grewaland Alexander R. Opotowsky 66.ShuntLesions Ari M. Cedars,Shelby Kutty, and AshishDoshi 67.

Right-SidedLesions KonstantinosDimopoulos and AndrewConstantine 68.Left HeartObstructive Lesions Jennifer Cohen,David Ezon, Kenan Stern, andAli N. Zaidi 69.SingleVentricle Post Fontan Palliation: Tricuspid Atresia, Pulmonary Atresia,andHypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Marie-A Chaixand Paul Khairy 70.Complex CyanoticCongenital Heart Disease: The "Mixing" Lesions RafaelAlonso-Gonzalez and DanielleMassarella