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You should learn solely in order to create. For willing is creating.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Work without ceasing. If you remember in the night, “I have not done what I ought to have done,” rise up at once and do it. Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Practical Cardiovascular Medicine is a comprehensive yet practical review of all fields of cardiovascular medicine. It addresses various cardiac diseases and presentations using both pathophysiology and clinical evidence, and expands from basic concepts to advanced ones. It should therefore prove useful to experienced physicians as well as trainees. In fact, there is a particular emphasis on the knowledge gaps of cardiologists and cardiology fellows. Organizing fellowship conferences and working with cardiology and interventional cardiology fellows has helped me perceive common deficiencies and focus on them.

Colleagues who read the book will find that it provides them with an in-depth understanding that translates into better patient management. My aim has also been to improve on pre-existing knowledge of pathophysiology and clinical trials. The book follows a comprehensive yet easy, practical, and illustrated flow. To facilitate learning, bottom-line approaches are consistently provided throughout the 38 chapters. There is an extra emphasis on concepts that are frequently misunderstood by practitioners.

Throughout, I have tried to answer daily, practical questions that may not be addressed in any other book. Even classic topics, such as ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, cardiac catheterization, or electrocardiography are discussed from a different, fresh, and contemporary viewpoint. The book is comprehensive, and many of its chapters could even stand alone as separate books.

In order to consolidate the understanding of complex topics, review questions with detailed answers are provided at the end of clinical chapters, mainly in a clinical vignette format (approximately 400 questions overall). The book will serve cardiologists and cardiology fellows, but will also be valuable to internists, internal medicine residents, and all professionals caring for patients with cardiovascular disease. I have written this book in an effort to embrace the magic and evolving depths of cardiovascular diseases. It is written with love, and with the hope of improving patients’ outcomes.

Elias B. Hanna