Cardiovascular medicine Books

The field of molecular genetics has rapidly expanded and is becoming increasingly important in the area of cardiac electrophysiology. The genetic basis of cardiac conduction disturbances and arrhythmogenesis is now ...

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. General Concepts and Hypotheses in the Study of Cardiovascular neural Regulation. 2. Pathophysiological Mechanisms and the Loss of a Finalistic Purpose. 3. The Sympathovagal Balance Explored in the Frequency Domain. 4...

Meyer Friedman, the physician who first identified Type A behavior (TAB), here offers a full description of the most effective way to correctly diagnose it. This guidebook offers a step-by-step description of his ...

The purpose of this text is to provide a reference work ticular attention has been paid to the diagnosis of covering basic electrocardiographic (EeG) patterns common rhythm problems. and diagnoses in a succinct and useful...

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a genetic disorder involving slowly progressive muscle degeneration in which the muscles of the face, shoulder blades and upper arms are among the most severely affected. It is the third most common...

This book proposes a preventive measure to check rheumatic endocarditis in its early stage, thus preventing the development of permanent organic disease of the valves. Caton's work is of great importance to medical professionals, especially...

Preface. Introduction. 1. SQUID Fundamentals; J. Clarke. 2. Advanced SQUID Read-Out Electronics; D. Drung. 3. SQUID Gradiometers in Real Environments; J. Vrba. DC SQUIDs: Design, Optimization and Practical Applications; R. Cantor. 5. Fabrication of...

Preface. I: Multiple Risk Factors in Population. 1. Lipid Risk Factors and the Regression of Atherosclerosis; A. M. Gotto Jr. 2. Multiple Risk Factors: What is Next? M. Higgins, C. Lenfant 3. Multiple Risk Factors in Northern Italy; G. A. Feruglio, D...

Preface. Foreword; N.K. Wenger. Part One: Demographics and health policy. 1. Demographic and economic trends in Europe and the need for coronary bypass surgery; M. Schneider. 2. Do growing proportions of elderly mean more cardiovascular diseases?...

The need for publishing acomprehensive review ofa number ofdifferent membrane pathologiesofmuscleand non-musclecells inillnesses ranging from diabetes toheart disease and cancer lies on to the fact that there are several books...

1. Introduction; A.S. Iskandrian, E.E. van der Wall. 2. Myocardial ischemia, stunning and hibernation: blood flow, metabolism and pathophysiology mechanism; M.W. Finkel, C.V. Oddis, B.G. Hattler, R.L. Simmons. 3. Thallium-201 to assess myocardial...

Preface. Part One: Endothelial Function. 1. Endothelium control of vascular tone and growth: potential role in coronary artery disease; T.F. Lüscher. 2. Endothelial function in atherosclerosis; F. Charbonneau, I.T. Meredith, T.J. Anderson, M...

Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States and other industrialized nations. Acute myocardial infarction accounts for a majority of these deaths, approaching 750,000...

Incidence and mortality of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD) vary considerably among races, populations and ethnic groups. Some individuals with low levels of risk factors succumb early to disease while many...

Angina pectoris with normal coronary arteriograms is a common entity which has puzzled cardiologists almost since the advent of coronary arteriography. Despite major advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of...

Foreword. Part One: Electrophysiology. 1. Equipment for the electrophysiology laboratory; possibilities and limitations. 2. Vasovagal syncope: clinical presentation, classification and management. 3. Classification of antiarrhythmic drugs in ...

Nature is totally amoral! There are at least 3-4 million people in France alone who suffer from arterial hypertension, and whose cardiovascular system is submitted day and night to both a haemodynamic and hormonal stress. In...

The most salient feature of the infor­ last four chapters of the book evaluate the mation provided by nuclear medicine is its information from an analytical and pathophysiological and functional charac­ statistical point of...

In May 1990, the First International Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults was organized in Rotterdam. During these three days' Symposium an overview of the many new problems facing the adult and...

Stunning is potentially an important complication of myocardial reperfusion. In contrast, hibernation is an important complication of myocardial ischemia. This book presents different viewpoints on these subjects, taken from...

In an attempt to clarify the situation regarding the diagnosis, pathogenesis and therapeutics of cardiovascular dysfunction in diabetes, an International Symposium on Diabetic Heart was held in Tokyo, Japan during October,...

The cardiac system represents one of the most exciting challenges to human ingenuity. Critical to our survival, it consists of a tantalizing array of interacting phenomena, from ionic microscopic transport, membrane channels...

Cardiac disease is the major cause of death in dialysis patients, accounting for over one third of deaths. This book focuses on myocardial function and dysfunction in chronic uremia. It is aimed at practicing and training...

Following the advent of percutaneous balloon vel oped and are available for clinical use, as well angioplasty, interventional cardiovascular pro­ as those that are still in investigational phases. cedures have become of great...

The Symposium on New Drugs provides a forum for academic investigators, research and development personnel from the pharmaceutical industry and members of the Food and Drug Administration to discuss important clinical research...

Heart diseases refer to conditions that affect the heart, its vessels, muscles, valves, or internal electric pathways responsible for muscular contraction. Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease and it may lead to chest pain,...

Heart diseases, also called cardiac diseases, refer to conditions that affect the heart. The most common types of heart diseases include atherosclerosis, congenital heart defects, heart infections, arrhythmia, coronary artery disease (CAD), and...

Vascular medicine is an area of medical science that involves the diagnosis and management of diseases affecting the blood vessels, including arteries, veins, and lymphatic vessels. The blood vessels play a crucial role in the transport of oxygen,...

Cardiology refers to the field of internal medicine that deals with the disorders of the cardiovascular system. It focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of heart-related conditions such as coronary artery disease, heart failure, congenital heart...

Hypertension refers to a long-term medical condition wherein the blood pressure (BP) of an individual is higher than normal. Informally, it is known as high blood pressure. It usually has no symptoms but it can increase the risk of serious health...

This book takes a holistic view of the treatment of cardio-oncology patients, from evaluating those at high risk of developing cardio-toxicity, guidance for monitoring and managing patients during therapy to cardiac care of cancer survivors. Throughout,...

Diabetes is a major public health problem which is expected to affect 160 million people worldwide by the year 2000. Clearly an understanding of the effects of diabetes on the heart is an important step in the development of...

Most of the progress in cardiac energetics in recent years has been spurred by the pressure-volume area concept, the natural extension into energetics of earlier pioneering work delineating the time-varying elastance...

The ATP-sensitive potassium channel (KATP) was discovered in 1983. Since then, an enormous amount of research has been undertaken to characterize it in detail. This volume consolidates both the current knowledge and most...

As the number of drugs acting on calcium and potassium channels grows, there is a need for a continuous reappraisal of the cellular machinery controlling them. The present volume provides an update on the basic knowledge, the...

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology. With this in mind, special efforts have been made to present many comprehensive schemes and...

Nitrates remain among the most commonly used therapeutic agents in cardiology. That they can re­ lieve pain in angina pectoris has been known at least since 1867, when Lauder Brunton described their clinical use. Now, almost...

In 1979 Dr Sperelakis published the `Origin of the Cardiac Resting Potential' in the Handbook of Physiology of the Heart. Since that time, many investigators and teachers of membrane biophysics have used this article as a...

This book contains 55 chapters that summarize referred to the special issue of Drug Development lectures given during the Fifth International Research (Volume 31, Number 4, April 1994). Symposium on Adenosine and Adenine...

Although there are many books on angina, few are devoted to the important problem of how to evaluate drug efficacy in angina pectoris. Drug Evaluation in Angina Pectoris has two fundamental aims: the first is to review the...

As the life expectancy of patients with arterial hypertension increases, hypertension in the elderly is becoming a relevant medical and social problem. Indeed, epidemiological trials have shown that the cardiovascular risk in...

Numerous studies have documented the importance of diastolic dysfunction in heart disease. Now, providing cardiologists with the most current information available on the subject, the editors have pulled together ...

Ischemic Preconditioning: The Concept of Endogenous Cardioprotection consolidates, in one volume, both current knowledge and the most recent advances in ischemic preconditioning. The editors have invited investigators at the...