Cardiac and Vascular Diseases

Presenting much topical material, as well as long-accepted data,Cardiac and Vascular Diseasesis good for reference and for browsing. Whatever his specialty, a physician leafing its pages will almost certainly find intriguing topics. Undoubtedly, obsolescence will soon make revisions necessary. Until then, however, the clinicians and medical students who use these two books for reference will probably find much, if not most, of the information currently available about the problem at hand. With its 102 contributors, Conn and Horwitz's two-volume set has something for everybody. Succinct discussions of the genetics of heart disease and the dynamics of lymph flow will interest most readers. But those who are not specialists may find some intricacies of cardiac physiology and esoteric tests of cardiac function tedious. Nonetheless, without slighting unusual forms of heart disease, the contributors attend mostly to the common problems of diagnosis and treatment. Noting that a diseased heart seldom