Copies of this book may be obtained from: Gabor Gyenes MD PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Alberta Hospital, 2C2 Walter Mackenzie. Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2B7 Tel: (780) 407-7929, Fax: (780) 407-6918
gabor.gyenes@capitalhealth.ca

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“The number of trials in cardiology is overwhelming, and for family doctors, a book on the most important ones would be just what the doctor ordered. … It is this kind of summary, efficiently distilling the essential pearls of each study while simultaneously being comprehensive in scope, which provides the busy family doctor with the key learning points that he or she needs in daily practice.”

—Sandy Buchman, MD CCFP FCFP, President, The Ontario College of Family Physicians

"Drugs per se are no threat to a patient. A physician’s ignorance either through lack of knowledge of interaction or through lack of adequate observation of the patient and proper interpretation of new events is dangerous."
Kenneth Lloyd Melmon, 1978

"He is the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
Benjamin Franklin

The editors of this first edition of 25 Landmark Trials in Cardiology are to be commended for their efforts. They bring together practical, up-to-date reviews of the major clinical trials that have had such a positive impact on patient survival and length of life. David Sackett describes evidence-based medicine as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients" (BMJ 13 Jan 1996). All that separates us from quackery is the judicious use of scientific evidence. This book provides that evidence.
Peter Hamilton, BSc,MBBCh,FRCPC(C), Internal Medicine Program Director, University of Alberta

About the authors

Dr. Gabor Gyenes received his Medical Doctorate at Semmelweis University, Budapest in 1984 and his PhD in 1997 at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, he is Associate Professor in Cardiology at University of Alberta. He has written handbooks on hypertension, coronary angiography and angioplasty and co-edited a textbook in Cardiology in 2000. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Craig Butler is a cardiologist registered with the Royal College of Physicians and he is currently completing a fellowship in cardiac imaging in Berlin, Germany. He has a Masters in Epidemiology from the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. Dr. Butler’s research interests lie in the area of non-invasive imaging with particular emphasis on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and CT angiography.

Dr. Robert C. Welsh received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan in 1993. Currently, he is Associate Professor and an academic Interventional Cardiologist at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. He is the Co-director of the University of Alberta Chest Pain Program and the Director of the Interventional Program and the Catheterization Laboratory at the University of Alberta. He is also chair of Vital Heart Response; a regional reperfusion program for early treatment of STEMI patients in Edmonton. He has been involved in several national and international multicenter trials. He has approximately 80 peer reviewed publications, journal reviews and abstracts.