Opie's Cardiovascular Drugs A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease Expert Consult, 9th Edition

Uses a new, consistent format for each drug class: overview and guidelines for use, mechanisms of action, differences among drugs in class, data for use, side effects, and drug interactions.Covers key topics such as new ESC and NLA guidelines, advances in lipid-lowering therapy, new diabetes drugs that improve cardiovascular outcomes, obesity drugs and cardiovascular and metabolic effects, drugs targeting inflammation, and combinations of antithrombotic therapies with analysis of risk-benefit.Provides guidance on how to effectively manage comorbid diseases.Contains dozens of unique "Opiegram diagrams that demystify complex mechanisms of action and other drug processes―many updated to reflect current pathologic understanding of mechanisms.Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices