CARDIAC
DRUGS
CARDIAC
DRUGS
Editors
Kanu Chatterjee MBBS FRCP (London) FRCP (Edin)
FCCP FACC MACP
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
The Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
University of California
San Francisco, California, USA
Eric J Topol MD FACC
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
Vice Chairman, West Wireless Health Institute
The Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine
Professor of Translational Genomics
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California, USA
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Cardiac Drugs/Editors Kanu Chatterjee, Eric J Topol
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CONTENTS
Contributorsix
Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
CHAPTER 1
Angiotensin, Aldosterone, and Renin Inhibition in
Cardiovascular Disease
1
Abdallah Kamouh, Gary S Francis, Kanu Chatterjee
CHAPTER 2
Positive Inotropic Drugs: A Limited but Important Role
34
Carl V Leier, Garrie J Haas, Philip F Binkley
CHAPTER 3
Antihypertensive Drugs
72
William J Lawton, Kanu Chatterjee
CHAPTER 4
Diuretics158
Michael E Ernst
CHAPTER 5
Drugs for Dyslipidemias
184
Byron Vandenberg
CHAPTER 6
Drugs for Diabetes and Cardiodysmetabolic Syndrome
242
Prakash Deedwania, Sundararajan Srikanth
CHAPTER 7
Drugs for Acute Coronary Syndromes
267
Stephen W Waldo, Yerem Yeghiazarians, Kanu Chatterjee
CHAPTER 8
Drugs for Dysrhythmia
326
Rakesh Gopinathannair, Brian Olshansky
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CARDIAC DRUGS
CHAPTER 9
Drugs for Heart Failure
389
Kanu Chatterjee
CHAPTER 10
Drugs for Stable Angina
424
Kanu Chatterjee, Wassef Karrowni
CHAPTER 11
Drugs for Pulmonary Hypertension
454
Ravinder Kumar, Sif Hansdottir
CHAPTER 12
Cardiac Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
485
Wassef Karrowni, Kanu Chatterjee
CHAPTER 13
Future Directions: Role of Genetics in Drug Therapy
506
Eric J Topol
Index509
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CONTRIBUTORS
Philip F Binkley MD MPH
Wilson Professor of Medicine
College of Medicine, The Ohio
State University
Professor of Epidemiology
College of Public Health, The
Ohio State University
Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs
Department of Internal Medicine,
The Ohio State University
Director, Center for FAME
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
College of Medicine, The Ohio
State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Michael E Ernst Pharm D
Professor (Clinical)
Department of Pharmacy
Practice and Science
College of Pharmacy
Department of Family Medicine
Carver College of Medicine
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Gary S Francis MD
Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Division
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Prakash Deedwania MD FACC
FACP FAHA
Chief of Cardiology Division
VACCHCS/UMC, UCSF Program
at Fresno, Fresno, California, USA
Professor of Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, California, USA
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