Hurst's The Heart, Volume 2

by Valentín Fuster, Robert A. O'Rourke, R. Wayne Alexander

This description refers to the second volume of a two-volume set. The most comprehensive and current resource on the heart! This unparalleled text continues to focus on patient care rather than the scientific aspect of the specialty. Thoroughly revised, this new edition is 33% new and updated. With continued emphasis on diagnosis and treatment, Hurst's THE HEART, 11/e features greater use of tables, charts and figures, as well as current ACC/AHA guidelines, interpretations of clinical trials and cardiology data found in the Human Genome Project, and more information on MRI and PET.

1100 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2005

About the author

Valentí Fuster Carulla (Barcelona, January 20, 1943), first Marquess of Fuster, is a Catalan physician, specialized in cardiology.
He comes from a lineage of doctors: son of Joaquim Fuster i Pomar, director of the Pedralbes Sanatorium, grandson of Valentí Carulla i Margenat, doctor and rector of the University of Barcelona, and of Josep Fuster i Pomar, doctor of medicine, and brother of Joaquim Fuster i de Carulla, psychiatrist.

In catalan known as Valentí Fuster