Includes index. Revised edition of: Handbook for anesthesia and co-existing disease / [edited by] Robert K. Stoelting, Stephen F. Dierdorf. 2nd ed. c2002.

Ischemic heart disease / Shamsuddin Akhtar -- Valvular heart disease / Adriana Herrera -- Congenital heart disease / Inna Maranets and Roberta Hines -- Abnormalities of cardiac conduction and cardiac rhythm / Kelly Teed Watson -- Systemic and pulmonary arterial hypertension / Matthew C. Wallace and Ala Sami Haddadin -- Heart failure and cardiomyopathies / Wanda M. Popescu -- Pericardial diseases and cardiac trauma / Raj K. Modak -- Vascular disease / Marbelia Gonzalez -- Respiratory diseases / Viji Kurup -- Diseases of the nervous system / William L. Lanier, Jr., and Jeffrey J. Pasternak -- Diseases of the liver and biliary tract / Katherine E. Marschall -- Diseases of the gastrointestinal system / Hossan Tantawy -- Nutritional diseases and inborn errors of metabolism / Hossan Tantawy -- Renal disease / Susan Garwood -- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders / Susan Garwood -- Endocrine disease / Russell T. Wall III -- Hematologic disorders / Christine S. Rinder -- Skin and musculoskeletal diseases / Jeffrey J. Schwartz -- Infectious diseases / Michael S. Avidan -- Cancer / Nalini Vadivelu -- Diseases related to immune system dysfunction / Christine S. Rinder -- Psychiatric disease/substance abuse/drug overdose / Roberta L. Hines and Katherine E. Marschall -- Pregnancy-associated diseases / Ferne R. Braveman -- Pediatric diseases / Charles Lee [and others] -- Geriatric disorders / Zoltan G. Hevesi.