Marcus Cardiac Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart
Disease, Volume 1 and Volume 2
David J. Skorton, MD. 1218 pp. Philadelphia, Pa: WB Saunders; 1996.
$195.00 (2-volume set). ISBN 0–7216-4687–5.
Although there are a number of cardiac imaging
textbooks, this one must be the "mother of all books." All imaging
modalities are included: radiography, angiography, MRI,
cine CT, radionuclide imaging, two-dimensional
echocardiography, and PET. This book in its second
edition is a companion to the 5th edition of Braunwald's Heart
Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.
This book, more than 1200 pages long, is organized in 8 parts and 73
chapters; 13 of these chapters are new in the 2nd edition. There are
hundreds of contributors from around the world, who are experts in
their respective fields.
Part I deals with physiological and
pathophysiological concepts that are important to
imaging, part II is an integrated clinical approach, part III is
conventional radiography and angiography, part IV is
echocardiography, part V is MRI, part VI is cine
CT, part VII is radionuclide imaging, and part VIII is positron
emission tomography. The indexing is quite useful, and the liberal uses
of subheadings, illustrations, and extensive bibliography constitute
major strengths of this book. Most of the images are black and white
and are of good quality; some are of exceptionally good quality (those
in chapters 17, 34, 40, 47, and 56). Some chapters have provided very
useful summaries of relevant data from the literature (for example,
chapters 36, 63, 70, and
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
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