SECTION 16 Cardiovascular disorders Section editor

16.1 Structure and function 3241 16.1.1 Blood vessels and the endothelium 3241 Keith Channon and ...

16.1.2 Cardiac physiology 3253 Rhys D. Evans, Kenneth T. MacLeod, Steven B. Marston, Nicholas J. ...

16.10 Tumours of the heart 3544 Thomas A. Traill ESSENTIALS Cardiac myxoma Cardiac myxomas are ra...

16.12 Congenital heart disease in the adult 3559 S.A. Thorne ESSENTIALS Adults with congenital he...

16.13 Coronary heart disease 3596 16.13.1 Biology and pathology of atherosclerosis 3596 Robin P. ...

16.13.2 Coronary heart disease: Epidemiology and prevention 3603 Goodarz Danaei and Kazem Rahimi ...

16.13.3 Management of stable angina 3616 Adam D. Timmis section 16  Cardiovascular disorders 3616...

16.13.5 Percutaneous interventional cardiac procedures 3655 Edward D. Folland 16.13.5  Percutaneo...

16.14 Diseases of the arteries 3674 16.14.1 Acute aortic syndromes 3674 James D. Newton, Andrew R...

16.14.2 Peripheral arterial disease 3680 Janet Powell and Alun Davies section 16  Cardiovascular ...

16.14.3 Cholesterol embolism 3688 Christopher Dudley section 16  Cardiovascular disorders 3688 Fi...

16.15 The pulmonary circulation 3691 16.15.1 Structure and function of the pulmonary circulation ...

16.15.2 Pulmonary hypertension 3695 Nicholas W. Morrell 16.15.2  Pulmonary hypertension 3695 FURT...

16.16 Venous thromboembolism 3711 16.16.1 Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism 3711 Paul...

16.16.2 Therapeutic anticoagulation 3729 David Keeling 16.16.2  Therapeutic anticoagulation 3729 ...

16.17 Hypertension 3735 16.17.1 Essential hypertension: Definition, epidemiology, and pathophysio...

16.17.2 Essential hypertension: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment 3753 Bryan Williams and John...

16.17.3 Secondary hypertension 3778 Morris J. Brown and Fraz A. Mir section 16  Cardiovascular di...

16.17.4 Mendelian disorders causing hypertension 3796 Nilesh J. Samani and Maciej Tomaszewski sec...

16.17.5 Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies 3800 Gregory Y.H. Lip and Alena Shantsila section ...

16.2 Clinical presentation of heart disease 3276 16.2.1 Chest pain, breathlessness, and fatigue 3...

16.2.2 Syncope and palpitation 3284 K. Rajappan, A.C. Rankin, A.D. McGavigan, and S.M. Cobbe sect...

16.3 Clinical investigation of cardiac disorders 3294 16.3.1 Electrocardiography 3294 Andrew R. H...

16.4 Cardiac arrhythmias 3350 Matthew R. Ginks, D.A. Lane, A.D. McGavigan, and Gregory Y.H. Lip E...

16.5.2 Acute cardiac failure: Definitions, investigation, management 3397 Andrew L. Clark and Joh...

16.5.3 Chronic heart failure: Definitions, investigation, and management 3407 John G.F. Cleland a...

16.5.4 Cardiorenal syndrome 3421 Darren Green and Philip A. Kalra 16.5.4  Cardiorenal syndrome 34...

16.5.5 Cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support 3428 Jayan Parameshwar and Stev...

16.6 Valvular heart disease 3436 Michael Henein ESSENTIALS Rheumatic valve disease remains preval...

16.7 Diseases of heart muscle 3459 16.7.1 Myocarditis 3459 Jay W. Mason and Heinz- Peter Schulthe...

16.8 Pericardial disease 3501 Michael Henein ESSENTIALS The most common clinical presentations of...

16.9 Cardiac involvement in infectious disease 3509

16.9.2 Endocarditis 3519 James L. Harrison, John L. Klein, William A. Littler, and Bernard D. Pre...

16.9.3 Cardiac disease in HIV infection 3534 Peter F. Currie section 16  Cardiovascular disorders...

16.9.4 Cardiovascular syphilis 3539 Krishna Somers 16.9.4  Cardiovascular syphilis 3539 16.9.4  C...

Adam D. Timmis 16.13.4 Management of acute coronary syndrome 3626 Rajesh K. Kharbanda and Keith A...

Andrew R. Houghton and David Gray 16.3.2 Echocardiography 3314 James D. Newton, Adrian P. Banning...

Andrew R.J. Mitchell 16.3.3 Cardiac investigations: Nuclear, MRI, and CT 3326 Nikant Sabharwal, A...

Cardiac failure 3390 16.5.1 Epidemiology and general pathophysiological classification of heart f...

Chronic peripheral oedema and lymphoedema 3811 Peter S. Mortimer ESSENTIALS Lymph transport, not ...

Edward D. Folland 16.13.6 Coronary artery bypass and valve surgery 3666 Rana Sayeed and David Tag...

Jay W. Mason and Heinz- Peter Schultheiss 16.7.2 The cardiomyopathies: Hypertrophic, dilated, res...

Nikant Sabharwal, Andrew Kelion, Theodoros Karamitos, and Stefan Neubauer 16.3.4 Cardiac catheter...

Oliver P. Guttmann and Perry Elliott 16.7.3 Specifific heart muscle disorders 3489 Oliver P. Gutt...

Peter S. Mortimer 16.19 Idiopathic oedema of women 3823 John D. Firth ESSENTIALS Idiopathic oedem...

Thomas A. Traill 16.11 Cardiac involvement in genetic disease 3551 Thomas A. Traill ESSENTIALS Ma...

disease 3509 16.9.1 Acute rheumatic fever 3509 Jonathan R. Carapetis 16.9 Cardiac involvement in ...