Myopericardial Diseases

?This book reviews current knowledge and recent advances in the diagnosis and management of myopericardial diseases, a spectrum of medical diseases and syndromes affecting a significant proportion of patients in clinical practice and presenting either as an isolated process or as a manifestation of a systemic disease. Unlike in other books, both pericardial and myocardial diseases are fully covered. Detailed guidance is provided on diagnosis and the role of integrated cardiovascular imaging, medical therapy, interventional diagnosis and therapy, and surgical diagnosis and therapy. Importantly, up-to-date original information is presented on indications and guidelines/recommendations planned for publication in 2015. This well-illustrated book will be an invaluable aid to diagnosis and management for practitioners in a range of medical specialties, including cardiology, internal medicine, rheumatology, family medicine, cardiac surgery, nephrology, and endocrinology.

Massimo Imazio is contract professor of Physiology at the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. Beside additional teaching activity as lecturer at the postgraduate school in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Torino, he's been involved in different Task Forces of the European Society of Cardiology. In particular, he has been coordinator of the new 2015 ESC guidelines on pericardial diseases and have been authors of several multicenter clinical trials and observational studies on pericardial diseases in the last 15 years. Moreover he is cardiologist and responsible for the myopericardial diseases, cardiomyopathies and heart failure section at the Maria Vittoria Hospital in Torino, Italy.