The multimedia CD-ROM based on Dr. Eric Topol's best-selling text has now been thoroughly updated to include the latest information in the field--in addition to the entire two-volume Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine, plus 200 CINE loops...a heart sounds library...in-depth search capabilities...and 460 more images than in the book (a total of over 2,000 images).

The new disk now includes ACC/AHA guidelines on coronary angiography; use of sildenafil (Viagra) in patients with cardiovascular disease; and management of patients with valvular heart disease. Also included are ACC Expert Consensus Documents on ethical coding and billing practices; coronary artery stents; and present use of bedside right heart catheterization. There are also brief chapter updates on rosiglitazone, a new drug class...acute myocardial infarction, including results of the latest clinical trials ASCENT and INTIME...use of alcohol septal ablation...hypertrophic cardiomyopathy...coronary stenting...contrast echo...and beta blockers in heart failure