Cardiovascular medicine

This book presents an invaluable symptoms-based approach to sports cardiology for sports medicine physicians, primary care physicians, and cardiologists.

TASER(R) Conducted Electrical Weapons are rapidly replacing the club for law-enforcement control of violent subjects within many countries around the globe.

Over the last decade, there has been a tremendous improvement in our understanding of basic cardiac electrophysiology.

Textbook of Pulmonary Vascular Diseases combines basic scientific knowledge on the pulmonary circulatory system at levels of the molecule, cell, tissue, and organ with clinical diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary vascular diseases.

Pacing and defibrillation have become the leading therapeutic treatments of heart rhythm disorders, including bradycardia and tachycardia.

Nolph and Gokal's Text Book of Peritoneal Dialysis, Third Edition, covers advances made in the field for the past 30 years.

Introduction to Computational Cardiology provides a comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the fundamental concepts and research challenges involved in the mathematical modeling and computer simulation of dynamical processes in the heart, under normal and pathological conditions.

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For centuries the analysis of the heart rhythm has belonged to the foundations of medical art.

Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows presents the basic knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques necessary to carry out investigations of the cardiovascular system using modeling and simulation.

Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows presents the basic knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques necessary to carry out investigations of the cardiovascular system using modeling and simulation.

Cardiac aging, like aging in general, is a complex process involving numerous cellular and molecular changes, which along the way contribute to the expression of the multiple phenotypes of aging, "e;the different faces"e; of cardiac aging.

During the twentieth century we saw a veritable revolution in medicine.

More than 18 million people in the United States have diabetes mellitus, and about 90% of these have the type 2 form of the disease.

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The last of an ongoing series of Cardiostim monographs all devoted to cardiac pacing, was published four years ago.

Since the publication of the first edition of Cardiac Pacing for the Clinician, the use of implantable cardiac devices has expanded rapidly.

Nowhere in the scientific progress has the schism in the knowledge been as striking as in the case of vascular mechanics and pathology.

The last three decades have witnessed enormous progress in the care of patients with congenital heart disease.

For about hundred years the investigation of heart physiology has had one central guiding principle, the "e;law"e; of Frank and Starling.

The study of electrophysiology has progressed rapidly because of the precise, delicate, and in- nious experimental studies of many investigators.

Biological homeostasis is maintained via intact function of an array of molecules detecting changes of microenvironments inside and outside of the biological system.

When the history of medicine in the latter half of the twentieth century is written, the advances in cardiovascular diagnosis, therapy, and prevention will stand out as one of the most important achievements.

At its present rate of growth, atherosclerosis will be the major cause of death from disease by the year 2020.

The 14th volume in the series will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and exercise.

Aortic dissection affects approximately two in ten thousand individuals and can be fatal.

Taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) is an enigmatic compound abounding in animal tissues.

Chronic oxidative stress is associated with the aging process and often leads to the development of disorders such as cancer and arterial disease.

Every physician hates to have a patient develop a complication.

It takes a certain hubris to come forth with a This book emerges from the clinical book entitled Clinical Cardiac Electrophys- practice and research of the pediatric cardiac iology in the Young.

In excess of 7 million people worldwide die of coronary heart disease each year.

Chapter 1: Basics and Performance of Cardiac Computed Tomography 3 Xavier Alomar-Serrallach, Ernesto Castillo-Gallo, Guillem Pons-Llado 1.

Effective new treatments of heart disease are based on a refined understanding of cellular function and the heart's response to environmental stresses.

How exciting it is to see a field so well established as the ren- angiotensin system continue to grow and mature.

Cryopreserved allograft tissues are now standard materials for the reconstructive cardiac surgeon.

Small-Animal SPECT Imaging is an edited work derived from the first workshop on Small-Animal SPECT Imaging held January 14-16, 2004 at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Adrenomedullin was discovered in 1993 in an extract of human pheochromocytoma while monitoring cAMP levels in rat platelets.

This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine.

Mitochondria have been pivotal in the development of some of the most important ideas in modern biology.

In spite of the remarkable progress that has been made against cancer, the battle is far from over.

Sliding Filament Mechanism in Muscle Contraction: Fifty Years of Research covers the history of the sliding filament mechanism in muscle contraction from its discovery in 1954 by H.

The Atlas of Practical Applications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance contains over two hundred illustrations and a glossary of terms.

Hemodynamics makes it possible to characterize in a quantitative way, the function of the heart and arterial system, thereby producing information about what genetic and molecular processes are of importance for cardiovascular function.

In the last decade, technical improvements have changed the inventory of many research laboratories.

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Interstitial Fibrosis in Heart Failure, edited by Francisco J.

Signal Transduction in Cardiovascular System Health and Disease highlights the major contributions of different signaling systems in modulating normal cardiovascular functions and how a perturbation in these signaling events leads to abnormal cell functions and cardiovascular disorders.

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the clinical applications of coronary angiography techniques.

From the introduction: "e;The purpose of the present book is to bring together in a coherent manner new knowledge gained from research over the past 50 years on the physiology of intraocular pressure, ocular blood flow and the relation of these fundamental parameters to early diagnosis and therapy of vascular diseases of the eye and brain.