Meet the editor

Dr. Umashankar Lakshmanadoss completed his training from the University of Rochester, NY, USA. He served as Director of Inpatient Medical Consult Service at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and then joined the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA, USA. Then he pursued training in cardiac electrophysiology at William Beaumont School of Medicine and continued advanced cardiac

electrophysiology training at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. He served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, where he also serves as the Director of Complex Arrhythmia Ablation Program. His research interest is in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. Currently, he is the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Mercy Health, Cincinnati, USA.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by John-Ross D. Clarke*

Artery Disease in the Modern Era

*by Mehmet Semih Demirtaş*

*and Karnika Senthilkumar*

Aortic Dissection

*and Nikolaos Koumallos*

Electronic Device Implantation

*by John-Ross D. Clarke and Gilead I. Lancaster*

in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease

**Preface XI**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Approach to Chest Pain **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 79**

Introductory Chapter: The Patient Presenting with Chest Pain

Application of Bayesian Principles to the Evaluation of Coronary

Approach to Gastroesophageal Reflux: A Cause of Chest Pain

Practical Approach to Chest Pain Related to Cardiac Implantable

*by Bina Nasim, Anas Mohammad, Sardar Zafar, Laji Mathew,* 

*by Umashankar Lakshmanadoss, Imran Sulemankhil* 

*Ahmed Sajjad, Anis Shaikh and Ghulam Naroo*

Takotsubo Syndrome and Nitric Oxide Bioavailability *by Michael Demosthenous, Konstantinos Triantafyllou* 
