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Cardiovascular Disorders

Health and Health Maintenance

Arterial hypertension
Atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease; hyperlipidemia
Prevention of rheumatic heart disease, thromboembolic disease, pulmonary emboli, bacterial endocarditis

Mechanisms of Disease

Diagnosis

Dysrhythmias; palpitations, syncope (eg, premature beats; paroxysmal tachycardias; atrial flutter and fibrillation; bradycardias; ventricular fibrillation; cardiac arrest)
Heart failure (congestive, diastolic, systolic dysfunction), dyspnea, fatigue, peripheral edema of cardiac origin (eg, chronic heart failure; cor pulmonale)
Ischemic heart disease; chest pain of cardiac origin (eg, angina pectoris; coronary insufficiency; myocardial infarction)
Diseases of the myocardium (eg, hypertrophic; myocarditis)
Diseases of the pericardium (eg, acute pericarditis; chronic constrictive pericardiopathy; pericardial effusion; pericardial tamponade)
Valvular heart disease (eg, acute rheumatic fever; mitral and aortic valve disorders; infective endocarditis)
Congenital cardiovascular disease (eg, patent ductus arteriosus; atrial septal defect; ventricular septal defect; endocardial cushion defect; tetralogy of Fallot; coarctation of the aorta)
Systemic hypotension, hypovolemia, cardiogenic shock; cyanosis
Arterial hypertension (eg, essential; secondary)
Atherosclerosis - lipoproteins
Disorders of the great vessels (eg, dissecting aortic aneurysm; ruptured aneurysm; aortoiliac disease)
Peripheral arterial vascular diseases, vasculitis (eg, polyarteritis; temporal arteritis; arteriovenous fistula)
Diseases of the veins, peripheral edema (eg, varicose veins; thrombophlebitis; deep venous thrombosis)
Traumatic injury

Principles of Management
(With emphasis on topics covered in Diagnosis)