Foreword -- 1. Surgical Anatomy of Coronary Arteries: Morphogenesis, Normal and Pathological Anatomy -- 2. Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: a Multifactorial Process -- 3. Prevention of Coronary Atherosclerosis -- 4. History of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 5. Pathophysiology of ischemic syndromes in coronary artery disease -- 6. Epidemiology of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 7. Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease -- 8. Evaluation of Anginal Syndromes Using Standard Clinical Procedures -- 9. Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 10. Electrocardiogram in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 11. Exercise Testing and Its Role in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 12. Echocardiography Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 13. Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Arteriography -- 14. Computed Tomography Cardiac Imaging: Coronary Artery Disease and Ischemia -- 15. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Myocardium, Coronary Arteries, and Anomalous Origin of Coronary Arteries -- 16. Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 17. Indications for Myocardial Revascularitation -- 18. Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease: the Role of the Heart Team -- 19. Pharmacological Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 20. Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularitation -- 21. Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery: Clinical and Surgical Perspective -- 22. Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation with Cardiopulmonary Bypass -- 23. How to expose all sides of the heart without the use of extra-corporeal circulation -- 24. Graft Materials, Harvesting Methods and Treatment of Grafts in Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation -- 25. Total arterial revascularization, techniques and results -- 26. Management of patients with concomitant coronary and carotid artery disease -- 27. Minimally Invasive Myocardial Revascularitation -- 28. Redo CABG - History, Epidemiology, Surgical treatment and Outcomes -- 29. Surgical Complications after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Ventricular Septal Defect and Free Wall Rupture -- 30. Surgical Ventricular Remodeling in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy -- 31. Mitral Regurgitation from Ischemic Heart Disease -- 32. Cardiac Transplantation and Assistent Devices for Ischemic Heart Disease -- 33. Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization -- 34. Stem cells therapy for ischemic heart disease.