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Sunday, April 4, 2021

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD

by Stuart J. Hutchison MD FRCPC FACC FAHA FASE FSCMR FSCCT (Author), Ceil Nuyianes (Illustrator)
Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD



The principal responsibility and the purpose of coronary care is to minimize the complications of myocardial infarction and thereby the loss of patients’ lives and their burden of symptoms. The coronary care unit (CCU) is an endlessly challenging, inevitably purposeful, always humbling, and definitely satisfying venue for practicing medicine, for teaching from within, and for continuing to learn both about the nature of disease and about the relevance of medical technology and therapeutics.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD

Patients don’t die of myocardial infarctions—they die of complications of infarction. The large majority of cases of myocardial infarction evolve well, without complication, and remain low-risk throughout. A minority of patients, though, develop complications and become at risk of death, thereby representing the most significant CCU cases—the ones faced with the highest risk, and the ones wherein prompt recognition of complications and their adept management do save lives—the rationale, and raison d’etre, of the CCU. 




The complicated cases of infarction become the focus, justification, and purpose of CCU professionals. Although the algorithmic management of coronary syndromes has hugely advanced the management of patients with coronary syndromes, the management of patients with complications of myocardial infarctions remains individualized, discretionary, and both taxing and validating of clinical skill and dedication, in success and defeat. The ablest of clinical teams relentlessly focus on anticipating complications of infarction.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD

Some complications of infarction, such as most degrees of heart failure, are managed solely within the realm of the CCU, but others require timely mobilization of the cardiac surgery, cardiac anesthesia, and critical care services. Interservice cooperation and coordination are often best exemplified by the management of such emergent cases.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD

My sustained interest in the complicated cases of myocardial infarction is based on their indisputable and dominant relevance to the dedication and professionalism of CCU physicians, nurses, and trainees. The highest-risk cases are simply the ones in which our impact, relevance, and contribution are the greatest. It is my hope that by review of chapters that emphasize the relation of coronary anatomy to pathology and associated pathophysiology and also the anatomic and physiologic basis of imaging, the reader will learn the background of and gain a handle on the reality of these most important of CCU cases.

Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Diagnostic Imaging Atlas with DVD



In this book and its companion DVD, I have tried to present a systematic and integrated approach to the complications of infarction and to offer a complementary case-based approach with each chapter. The chapters and cases in the book present still images, and the DVD offers the respective dynamic images; thus, it is a true companion to the book’s content.

Product details

  • Publisher : Saunders; 1st edition (December 24, 2008)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1416052720
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1416052722
  • Item Weight : 2.55 pounds
  • Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.75 x 11.25 inches

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