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Cardiology Clinical Methods, 2nd Edition is a bedside-focused clinical examination reference organized around the sequence of a real cardiovascular physical exam: history taking, arterial pulse, blood pressure, jugular venous pulse, precordial palpation, the four heart sounds, and systolic and diastolic murmurs, before moving chapter by chapter through valvular heart disease, prosthetic heart valves, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis, aortoarteritis, congenital heart disease, and chest X-ray and ECG interpretation.

Each topic is broken into short subheadings - definition, mechanism, bedside technique, characteristic findings - with schematic figures, named clinical signs, and grading scales built in as a revision aid. Clinical case scenarios open the Prosthetic Heart Valve and Constrictive Pericarditis chapters.

Key Features:

• New chapter on hemodynamics - Approach to Catheterization Data and Oximetry - covering pressure traces and calculation of flows, shunts, and resistances.
• Chapters revised to current guidelines, including 2025 AHA/ACC thresholds for drug initiation, ASE and ESC echocardiographic grading criteria, and ACC recommendations on ICD selection and valve replacement.
• Clinical case scenarios open the Prosthetic Heart Valve and Constrictive Pericarditis chapters.
• Schematic figures, named clinical signs, and grading scales built in throughout as a revision aid.
• Written by two India-based cardiology teachers, from Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, with contributions from their cardiology faculty colleagues.
• 30 chapters moving systematically from history taking and physical examination through valvular, congenital, and pericardial disease to chest X-ray, ECG criteria, and catheterization data.