Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels: Nomenclature and Criteria for Diagnosis

During 36 years, through five previous editions, this book has done more than any other single publication to provide a rational catalog of cardiovascular classification. For the new edition, the editors have secured different contributors and revised the text and format to make the book more informative and attractive, while increasing its size by almost 100 pages. The new work is an excellent embellishment of the 1953 edition, but omits many developments of the past 11 years. New diagnostic tools and therapeutic procedures have produced a nomenclature that needs classification and criteria; new techniques of data processing require specification of the undefined elements used in the old criteria. The latest edition fails to deal with many of the new and old issues whose definition and delineation produce constant clinical disagreement. No diagnostic standards are presented for such common clinical problems as malignant hypertension, coronary insufficiency (as a clinical state midway