Chest Pain Hardcover

Hurst, J. Willis

J. Willis Hurst, MD, a pioneer in the development of cardiology, and his colleague, Douglas C. Morris, M.D., both of Emory University, have edited this book and chose its unusual title for very specific reasons. Patients sometimes have an odd view as to anatomic landmarks that identify the location of the chest, and may assign terms other than pain to their discomfort. Hence the quotation marks around 'chest pain'. The arrow (-->) after 'chest pain' indicates that the physician initially may not know the cause of the symptom, so a differential diagnosis must be established.This book was written to reintroduce in the modern clinical setting the knowledge and skills needed to analyze symptoms, physical findings, and ECG and x-ray abnormalities in order to accurately diagnose more than 50 different conditions that may bring about a complaint of 'chest pain'. Experts in the fields of cardiology, pulmonology, dermatology, orthopedics,

0879934824

9780879934828

English

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

15 October 2001

514

John Willis Hurst was an American physician who served as the cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the editor of Hurst's the Heart, one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world. He also served as a former president of the American Heart Association. Douglas C. Morris MD is the editor of Chest Pain, published by Wiley.

J. Willis Hurst

Douglas Morris

This book...is worth owning. It is not going out of date next year!William C. RobertsAmerican Journal of Cardiology