The Esc Handbook on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

The ESC Handbook on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, based on the most recent guidelines in cardiovascular pharmacology, and containing a comprehensive A-Z formulary of common and less commonly used cardiac drugs and drug groups, provides practical and accessible guidance on all areas of drug prescribing.

Professor Kaski is the Immediate Past Director of the Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, St George's, University of London. He is Doctor of Science, University of London, Fellow of the Royal College of physicians (London), the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, among over 20 other scientific societies worldwide. He is Deputy Editor in Chief, International Journal of Cardiology, Editor in Chief, European Cardiology Review and the Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy book series, ISCP.
Professor Kjeldsen is author of over 200 papers and multiple books. Presenter of over 100 lectures nationally and internationally, he is Chairman at 45 scientific sessions. He has extensive experience as peer reviewer at scientific journals, from editorial boards, as chairman and organizer of meetings and congresses and as examiner of theses and research projects nationally and internationally. Teaching interests include Cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology, and research methodology.

Section 1: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
1: Robert Zweiker and Sabine Perl: Hypertension
2: Heinz Drexel: Dyslipidaemia
3: Christoph Säly: Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes
4: Freek Verheugt: Thrombosis
Section 2: Ischaemic Heart Disease
1: Abhiram Prasad and Claire Raphael: Acute Coronary Syndromes
2: Gaetano Antonio Lanza and Antonio De Vita: Chronic stable angina
3: Peter Ong and Udo Sechtem: Coronary artery spasm and microvascular angina
4: Alexander Lyon, Mark Sweeney, and Elmir Omerovic: Takotsubo Syndrome
Section 3: Heart Failure
1: Faiez Zannad, Joao Pedro Ferreira, and Theresa McDonagh: Heart failure
2: Finn Gustafsson and Kasper Rossing: Heart transplantation
Section 4: Arrhythmias
1: George Dan and Jan Steffel: Atrial fibrillation
2: Julio Martí: Supraventricular (narrow complex) tachycardias
3: Martin Borggrefe, Erol Tülümen, and Josep Brugada: Ventricular arrhythmias
4: Haran Burri: Bradyarrhythmias
5: Ricardo Ruiz-Granell: Syncope
Section 5: Structural heart disease
1: Francesca Mantovani: Valvular Heart Disease
2: Giovanni Boffa and Claudio Ceconi: Myocarditis/ Pericardial Syndromes
3: Giovanni Boffa: Cardiomyopathy
4: James Tonkin, Kate Ryan and Brendan Madden: Pulmonary Hypertension
Section 6: Management of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy and lactation and in the presence of co-morbidities
1: Debasish Banerjee, Robin Ramphul, and David Goldsmith: Kidney disease
2: Anita Banerjee, Debasish Banerjee, and Vivek Jha: Pregnancy and lactation
3: Nina Hojs, Aftab Ala, and Debasish Banerjee: Liver disease
Section 7: Major drug interactions
1: Maja Hellfritzsch Poulsen and Marlene Lunddal Krogh: Major drug interactions
Section 8: Cardiovascular drugs from A to Z
1: Juan Tamargo, Ricardo Caballero and Eva Delpón: Cardiovascular drugs from A to Z
Section 9: Non-cardiac drugs affecting the heart - from A to Z
1: Eva Delpón and Juan Tamargo: Non-cardiac drugs affecting the heart