Cardiovascular medicine

The field of structural heart disease interventions is experiencing a stage of rapid growth with the development of percutaneous mitral valve repair therapies and percutaneous aortic valve replacement therapies.

Atherosclerosis: Clinical Perspectives Through Imaging is aimed at practicing clinicians and relies on didactic tabular and bullet points and a host of fine imagery describing the common features of the imaging of atherosclerosis, enabling the reader to understand more about the advantages and limitations of each modality in investigating athersclosis.

Management of Heart Failure: Surgical will provide the full spectrum of surgical options, ICU management and rehabilitation, while also referencing heavily the companion volume of Management of Heart Failure: Medical by introducing the medical options in heart failure .

This textbook is alone in focusing on the subject of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease.

This comprehensively covers everything from pathophysiology to the evaluation of patients presenting with heart failure to medical management, device therapy, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support, and include relevant cardiac imaging studies such as echocardiograms and magnetic resonance imaging studies which could be seen in their entirety as well as pathology slides, hemodynamic tracings and videos of cardiac surgery such as heart transplants and ventricular assist device implantation.

This book reviews the surgical management of the mitral and tricuspid valves.

Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and all of us involved in the specialty have been caught at one time or another.

The book will be written by the experts in the disease including imaging, interventional cardiology and surgical valve expertise.

There is no standard textbook at this time on endovascular management of thoracic aortic pathologies.

Fish Oil and Vascular Disease covers the most relevant aspects of fish oil (n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) on vascular disease.

This monograph comprises 17 papers written by prominent authors in the field, each of whom presents his most recent experiences.

Respiratory rehabilitation can be defined as long term evaluation and therapy.

'Cardiovascular Disease' is the fourth monograph in the series on management and treatment in major clinical sub specialties or patient groups.

Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as a very important treatment option for patients with cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury once the patient has been successfully resuscitated.

This small handbook provides a "e;just the facts"e; approach to the use of nuclear cardiology for the general cardiology population.

Cardiac Pacing: An Illustrated Introduction will provide an introduction to all those who have or who are developing an interest in cardiac pacing.

A huge number of therapeutic studies has been published in rheumatology and clinical immunology.

Cardiovascular Medicine: Coronary Artery Disease will offer today's most up-to-date, user-friendly guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and medical and surgical treatment of this most important aspect of cardiovascular disease and will be on the wish list for every trainee and practicising cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, vascular surgeon, diabetologist, cardiac radiologist and any physician who manages cardiac patients.

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease remains the major cause of death and disability in Western society.

This text evolved as a response to numerous requests to present a simplified approach to the diagnosis and management of most of the common aspects of both cosmetic and medical venous disorders.

The textbook will describe the relationship between human cardiopulmonary system and exercise in a format that is related to the mode of exercise, health status and aging.

The topic of heart failure although extensively researched and reported, has several gray areas.

This book provides up-to-date and user-friendly guidance on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of heart and vascular disease.

Few references have been published on the renal vascular system and its effect on the cardiovascular system as a whole.

This book is ideal for cardiovascular imagers of all backgrounds as well as proceduralists (surgeons and interventional cardiologists) performing TAVR.

A Second Edition of this handbook of drugs used in pediatric cardiac care will satisfy the need for a quick up-to-date reference source of common drug therapy.

Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues.

Cardiac disorders are an exciting area of classic pathology and recently defined disease.

The heart and lung are intricately linked.

Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System will recapitulate the current knowledge about the vortex formation in the cardiovascular system, from mechanics to cardiology.

Intermittent hypoxia can cause significant structural and functional impact on the systemic, organic, cellular and molecular processes of human physiology and pathophysiology.

Leading heart surgeons (including the President of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons) bridge the ever-widening gap betweenthe "e;student"e; (both pre- and post-graduate) and an increas-ingly remote group of medical and surgical specialists inthis , the only book devoted entirely to the establishedprinciples of cardiac diagnosis.

Sir Thomas Lewis has become one of the greatest cardiologists of this century.

Varicose veins are a very common problem.

Cardiology as a medical specialty originated in the 20th century and Britain played an important role in its development.

Major epidemiologists from the UK, USA and Europe contributeto the first ever, much needed comprehensive review of theepidemiology of peripheral vascular disease in the lowerlimbs.

Specialists in cardiac imaging offer their extensive experience of performing and interpreting myocardial perfusion studies with thallium 201 and single photon emission tomography in this unique teaching atlas which contains over 1500 colour illustrations.

As pediatric cardiology becomes more and more neonatal cardiology and even fetal cardiology, Neonatal Heart Disease by Robert M.

Nearly a century has passed since Rehn performed the first successful cardiac operation by closing a right ventricular stab wound in a gravely ill patient.

What medicine lacks in an increasingly specialised world is the medical polymath (or should it be medical bimath?

The publication of Platelet-Vessel Wall Interactions, the second monograph in the Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science, is particu- larly welcome as its appearance signifies the further development of the Series and its potential for the future.

The interrelated syndromes of shock and the adult respiratory distress to attract the attention of both clinical and syndrome (ARDS) continue laboratory scientists.

It gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to write a Foreword for this new book.

As with any delicate machine, the human body can be profoundly affected by its supply of vital running materials.

This book highlights circulatory dynamics and cardiovascular control during exercise and post-exercise and recovery.

This book provides a concise resource on the latest robotic techniques relevant to thoracic surgery.

The book's primary objective is to introduce the pathology and physiology atherosclerosis in brief, and its diagnosis and treatment.

This book provides a concise resource on the latest robotic techniques relevant to thoracic surgery.