Modern cardiology

Doppler echocardiography in modern cardiology.

The emergence of modern cardiology.

The roots of modern British cardiology.

The nineteenth century abounds with the names of individual British physicians expert in cardiac disease who wrote of its pathology, diagnosis, and management. As a group, however, they were not cardiologists as we would understand the term today; nor could they have been, when the new techniques available at the start ofthat century-percussion and auscultation-were just being added to the conv...

Pharmacogenetics in Practice Pharmacogenetics in Cardiology: Forays into Modern Practice

When one discusses pharmacogenetics in cardiology practice, it is almost obligatory to discuss clopidogrel. Clopidogrel is an antiplatelet used for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting, and as secondary stroke prevention in patients with aspirin allergy, among other indications. Clopidogrel is a prodrug that must be metabolized through the cytoch...

The emergence of modern cardiology (Medical History, Suplement no. 5)

Frankland, Sims Woodhead, and Edward Klein. Not surprisingly, the attempt to reduce the Victorian ideological maze to order results in omissions: the moral dimension, considered elsewhere by Christopher Hamlin, is lacking; as also is reference to the wider scientific context. Neither Justus von Liebig nor Robert Koch, both influential figures in this context, receives a mention. Part Two, which...