The third edition of dr burchs primer is about as good a place as any to begin the study of cardiology the style is direct lean and if anything else one of understatement its most attractive features are the many figures none of which are photographs these diagrams charts and line drawings illustrate many points in cardiac physiology and clinical medicine for example the illustrations on heart sounds and murmurs include graphs of aortic and ventricular pressures volume curves . These authors have attempted to perform the difficult task of writing a work on cardiology in less than three hundred pages considering the handicap that confronted them they have done well they have presented some general anatomic considerations of the cardiovascular system this is followed by a section dealing with the approach to the diagnosis of heart disease the common types of heart . Get this from a library a primer of cardiology george e burch home worldcat home about worldcat help search search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library create lists bibliographies and reviews or search worldcat find items in libraries near you . Tissue plasminogen activator was the first drug made with the use of recombinant dna techniques to be used in cardiology and was approved by the food and drug administration fda in 1989 in the short time since then five other drugs made by these techniques have been added to the treatment of patients with ischemic heart disease hirudin su peroxide dismutase urokinase prourokinase and multiple mutant forms of rt pa the fda has approved fewer than 100 drugs that are made by