Heart health : a guide to the tests and treatments you really need / J. Shah, MD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shah, J., MD, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart Diseases--therapy.

Heart--Diseases--Treatment.

Heart--Examination.

Heart.

Medical Subjects:

Heart Diseases--therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2019.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

Knowing what heart tests and treatments are best for you is essential to a healthy heart and mitigating the consequences of heart disease once acquired. Here, Dr. Jignesh Shah walks readers through cardiac health and disease prevention and explains which tests and treatments are vital and which are typically unnecessary.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Do I Need This Book?

1: Stress Test: What's Good for the Goose Good for the Gander?

2: Cardiac Catheterization: That's Our Protocol

3: Angioplasty: It's Not Killing You!

4: Bypass Surgery: A Second Opinion

5: Supplements, the Internet, and Heart Monitors: The Customer Has the Controls

6: Pacemakers: A Surefire Spark?

7: Defibrillator: Many Get It, Some Need It

8: Ablation: Curing Your Rhythm Problems

9: The Way Forward: The Home-Care Solution to Health Care

Epilogue: Heart-to-Heart

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-8183-606-1

1-5381-2670-2

OCLC:

1110183950