Rural Doctor's Diagnostic Routine - (Middle Volume)

Author: Wen Gebo, Chief Editor
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases focuses on common rural cardiovascular diseases—hypertension, coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart valve disease, myocardial diseases, heart failure, and arrhythmias. It also briefly introduces other conditions such as pericardial diseases, endocarditis, and cardiac tumors. Each chapter emphasizes the diagnosis (symptoms, signs) and treatment/prevention of the disease, while also providing concise coverage of differential diagnosis and auxiliary examinations. Most diseases include special tips to guide rural doctors on what they can and cannot do; some conditions also feature convenient and practical small herbal prescriptions. Additionally, the introductory section on medical history-taking methods and common cardiovascular symptoms is highly useful for rural doctors with limited access to auxiliary examinations, enabling them to conduct preliminary differential diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases based on history and symptoms.