Cardiovascular medicine

Advanced Cardiac Life Support In the event of an adult cardiac arrest, it is essential to be able to respond rapidly, providing safe and effective care.

Pulmonary Circulation provides physicians with a better understanding of the structure, function and pathophysiology of the pulmonary circulation.

Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of death and disability in developed countries and, increasingly so, in the developing world.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and around the world.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

This issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, edited by Drs.

Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms reviews novel developments in the endocrinology of hypertension with emphasis on new discovery during the past five years and perspectives on the future.

Practical Manual of Echocardiography in the Urgent Setting In the acute care setting, medicine happens at full speed and with little margin for error.

Rapid Cardiac Care is an indispensable resource for all frontline staff working with acutely ill patients.

This atlas comprehensively describes the application of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in real-world scenarios using 192 illustrative clinical cases.

Current, comprehensive, and focused, the bestselling Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine returns for its fourth edition.

This book is a guide for clinicians seeking to use metabolic approaches in the care of hospitalized patients.

A cardiologist offers seven simple steps to reduce the risk of heart attack, dementia, stroke, and other ailments.

An overview of the new oral warfarin alternatives, an important new area in therapy for cardiovascular disease, provided by a leading expert.

Understanding how angiogenesis "e;works"e; and how to control it will have massive implications on the management, treatments, and ultimately the prevention of many common (and not so common) diseases.

What Do the Best-Trained Doctors Do to Beat Heart Disease?

Making Sense of the ECG: Cases for Self-Assessment presents everything you need to assess your ability to interpret ECGs accurately, perform differential diagnosis, and decide upon the most appropriate clinical management in each situation.

This book comprehensively covers unusual and rare pathological cases in echocardiography.

Despite tremendous gains in medical knowledge, most conditions are managed, rather than cured, by medications.

Dyslipidemia in chronic kidney disease is a common clinical problem and growing in prevalence.

Fact-based and clinically-focused, this new third edition of Essential Cardiac Electrophysiology: The Self-Assessment Approach is an ideal reference in a bullet-point format that provides a concise and essential overview of electrophysiology.

Many caregivers working in the field of medicine find that one of the best ways to learn is by working through clinical cases, and for many individuals it's even more helpful to work through the examples as "e;unknowns.

This practical casebook provides important insight to clinicians looking to learn about the diagnosis and management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).

This atlas provides a detailed visual resource of how sophisticated non-invasive imaging relates to the anatomy observed in a variety of cardiovascular pathologies.

This book covers all the major aspects associated with pathophysiological development of cardiac arrhythmias (covering enhanced or suppressed automaticity, triggered activity, or re-entry), from basic concepts through disease association, limitations of current pharmacotherapy and implant therapies and on-going trials and analysis of new biomarkers based on current knowledge of cellular interaction and signalling.

This book provides a complete overview on the latest available technologies in dermatology, while discussing future trends of this ever-growing field.

Living organisms exhibit specific responses when confronted with sudden changes in their environmental conditions.

This book provides a state-of-the-art description of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease (VHD).

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Since the publication of the first edition of this volume, 3D echocardiography has become a more frequent tool in diagnostic technology and patient care, while technology advancements have vastly improved this powerful imaging modality.

The 4th International Symposium on Women's Health and Menopause, organized by the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation (Milan, Italy and Houston, Texas) focused on the new strategies to improve the quality of life of post-menopausal women.

This book provides an invaluable practically applicable and comprehensive manual to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery.

The Right Ventricle in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive and up-to-date database and collection of the available information which describes the structure and function of the normal right ventricle.

Interpret, diagnose, and treat with this case-based atlas of congenital heart diseaseA Doody's Core Title for 2022!

The Intelligent HeartAccess the power of your heart's intelligence to improve your focus and creativity, elevate your emotional clarity, lower your stress and anxiety levels, strengthen your immune system, promote your body's optimal performance, and slow the aging process.

The third edition of this established reference is the product of the combined efforts of many professionals - obstetricians, pediatric cardiologists, sonographers, molecular biologists, and medical physicists - and is a comprehensive guide intended for anyone interested in scanning the fetal cardiac system.

Comparative Cardiovascular Dynamics of Mammals offers never-before-published data on the structure and function of the circulatory systems of the different mammalian species.

Metabolic syndrome is a set of risk factors that includes: abdominal obesity, a decreased ability to process glucose (insulin resistance), dyslipidemia (unhealthy lipid levels), and hypertension.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of all stages of pulmonary embolism, starting with acute and ending with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a growing global menace with patients increasing in developing countries where tobacco and food play a major role.

It is a great pleasure for me to contribute a few words as an achieved by many heart transplant centers and the ever improving results of lung transplantation and the functioning of mechanical introduction to the second edition of this volume, first published in 1990 when it was edited by David Cooper and Dimitri cardiac assist devices.

Pacing and ICDs are used increasingly in the management of arrhythmias and a number of different cardiac conditions.

This book analyzes the effects of estrogens and progesterone on brain cells, the immune system, neuro inflammation, myelin formation and steroid receptor distribution, as well as their clinical impacts.

A highly clinical focus and clear, vibrant illustrations make Textbook of Clinical Hemodynamics, 2nd Edition, by Dr.

Complex physiopathological relationships have been proven to exist between two of the body's most vital organs; the brain and the heart.

Cell Interactions in Atherosclerosis covers the scientific foundations of the most important disease inflicting the developed world today.

This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest edited by Gina Price Lundberg and Laxmi S.

Clinical Physiology of the Venous System is a comprehensive overview of vein physiology.