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Taylor & Francis Clinical Neurocardiology Fundamentals and Clinical Cardiology 1999 Edition by Louis R. Caplan, J. Willis Hurst, Marc I. Chimowitz
This valuable reference provides a wide range of practical, clinical information for physicians who care for patients with neurological and cardiac problems. Clinical Neurocardiologyconsiders neurological complications arising from cardiac surgery and other cardiac interventions describes neurological findings in heart disease patients, including brain embolism, encephalopathies, and the effects of commonly prescribed drugs discusses the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiac arrest details the management of coexistent coronary and cerebrovascular disease reviews the effects of various toxic and metabolic disorders causing neurologic symptoms in cardiac disease patients analyzes cardiac lesions as well as cardiac and neurological findings in patients with various diseases that effect the nervous system and heart and more! With over 1700 references, tables, drawings, photographs, and micrographs, Clinical Neurocardiology benefits cardiologists; neurologists; cardiac, cardiovascular, and vascular surgeons; neurosurgeons; internists; family and primary care physicians; physiologists; neuroscientists; and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines. Table of contents : - Cardiac Arrest and Other Hypoxic-Ischemic InsultsBrain EmbolismEncephalopathies and Neurological Effects of Drugs Used in Cardiac PatientsNeurological Complications of Cardiac SurgeryNeurological Complications of Nonsurgical Cardiac InterventionsAsymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with CarotidArtery Stenosis: Incidence, Prognosis, and TreatmentCardiac and Cardiovascular Findings in Patients with Nervous System Diseases