Heart disease and pregnancy, physiology and management, second edition

Book Reviews

Heart

Disease

Metcalfe,

John

(1986). 460.00.

and Pregnancy, H. McAnulty

Oregon,

There heart

edition

in 1958. Metcalfe

Portland,

and Management,

Ueland.

406~~.

of Burwell remains

and Ueland

are chapters

disease,

and Metcalfe’s

as an author,

endocarditis

quality,

contribute

to the somewhat

to manage

heart disease

and drug therapy.

although

discursive

women dence

with congenital of heart

disease

know of on the library

also from

on the general

illustrated

measures

in pregnancy shelf, rather

to support

covered,

experience.

rather

The

account

of how

than a European

may be beneficial of emotional

of latter

account.

in patients

stress, although,

with as the

some of these recommendations. who want to know more about heart dis-

to know more about heart disease is declining.

arrhythmias,

both with echocardiographs

considerable

which

obstetricians

and ischaemic

and congenital

disease,

this is a very personal

such as rest and the avoidance

who need

valvular

heart

date from later than 1982.

and also an American

buy the book? Certainly

ease, and cardiologists

McAnulty,

All the major topics are therefore

style. In addition,

point out, there is little evidence

Who should

ischaemic

from the authors’

in pregnancy,

emphasis

of management,

few references

and case histories

heart disease in pregnancy, authors

James

Livingstone

which was first pub-

by- his colleagues

hypertension,

The book is over 400 pages long, and copiously reasonable

classic monograph

joined

basic principles

and systemic

and they are well referenced,

is much

Edition.

Churchill

from Stanford.

on physiology,

pulmonary

thromboembolism,

There

Second

Edinburgh:

ISBN e-316-567973.

This is the second lished

Physiology

and Kent

pregnancy.

are becoming

Therefore,

than to purchase

However, pregnant,

I suspect

for individual

although

more

the overall inci-

that this is a book to

use. MICHAEL DE SWIET

Pocket Scientific

Consultant

Obstetrics,

Publications

Second Edition.

G. M. Stirrat. 318 pp. Oxford:

This is a small book (18.5 cm x 12 cm x I .5 cm) of 3 18 pages crammed formation

for the practising

obstetrician’s Throughout management

obstetrician.

the book, practice,

concisely

emphasis

with useful factual in-

Its size allows it to be conveniently

pocket so that it can be readily consulted

basis of obstetrical

Blackwell

(1986). E8.95. ISBN O-632-13941.

is quite

while departures

correctly,

carried

in the

at any time. I believe,

from the normal

placed

on the physiological

are clearly identified

and their

discussed.

A major aim of the book is to provide in a readily accessible form information of a practical nature that will have a direct bearing on the management of pregnant women, For a book of its size it achieves this remarkably well, although medical literature have been excluded.

not without

some sacrifice:

The text is right up to date, with the inclusion of many contemporary antenatal intrauterine diagnosis of fetal abnormalities, chorionic villus

e.g., references

to the

issues such as the sampling, maternal