Edited by Graham Jackson. 419 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 1997. (Distributed by Mosby, St. Louis.) $99.50. ISBN 1-85317-406-8.
Internists considered cardiology difficult when they had tobase their diagnosis on auscultation and electrocardiograms.Therapy was difficult as well, since the drugs available werelimited more or less to digitalis, nitrates, and diuretics;operations before the advent of extracorporeal circulation wereconfined to a few indications, and bed rest was the chief therapeuticapproach. With the development of objective diagnostic procedures,such as cardiac imaging and catheterization, most cardiac diagnosesare now considered easy to make. Therapy has also made incredibleadvances, and there is now a broad spectrum of answers to almostany question. Since the approaches to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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