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The Heart: An Integrated Story

Anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the heart, told the simple way, for First MBBS

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  • Integrated learning
  • 40 pages
  • 7.6 MB
  • 1st (2026) edition
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Follow Anu, a first-year MBBS student, as her grandfather’s chest pain takes her through the structure, the working and the chemistry of the heart. Nineteen short chapters teach the heart as one organ instead of three subjects: where the heart lives, chambers and valves, coronary circulation, embryology and fetal circulation, histology, cardiac muscle and action potentials, the cardiac cycle and heart sounds, the ECG made simple, cardiac output and Frank–Starling, blood pressure and capillary exchange, the fuel of the heart, contractile proteins and calcium, NO, endothelin and angiotensin II, lipoproteins and atherosclerosis, cardiac biomarkers, four integration stories and the drugs that help the heart, explained by how they work. Integration corners show Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry side by side, with tables, flowcharts, simple ECG strips, 40 viva questions with short answers and tap-to-open animations of the cardiac cycle, heart sounds and ECG. For first-year MBBS students and teachers of integrated teaching.

Author: Dr. Gireesh Kumar K. P. · For: MBBS / UG students

Inside this book

  1. The story begins
  2. Where the heart lives
  3. Four rooms, four doors
  4. Coronary circulation
  5. Embryology & fetal circulation
  6. Histology
  7. Electricity & action potentials
  8. Cardiac cycle
  9. ECG made simple
  10. Cardiac output & Starling
  11. Blood pressure & capillaries
  12. Fuel of the heart
  13. Molecules of contraction
  14. NO, endothelin, angiotensin
  15. Lipids & atherosclerosis
  16. Cardiac biomarkers
  17. Putting it together
  18. Drugs for the heart
  19. Viva questions
  20. ANATOMY structure · vessels · development
  21. ANATOMY
  22. PHYSIOLOGY electricity · cycle · ECG · BP
  23. PHYSIOLOGY
  24. BIOCHEMISTRY fuel · proteins · lipids · markers
  25. BIOCHEMISTRY
  26. DRUGS how they work
  27. All links — visual atlas
  28. The story begins — one heart, three lenses
  29. Where the heart lives — position, mediastinum, pericardium
  30. Four rooms and four doors — chambers, valves, blood flow

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