Cardiovascular medicine

Although there are many books on ischemic heart disease and myocardial in- farction, very few relate to the acute phase of the illness.

Recent technological developments have brought long-term ambulatory electro- cardiography to the front of clinical cardiology.

With the beginning of the 1980's it was becoming increasingly evident that the lack of approval of new cardiovascular agents for use by clinicians in the United States for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders was becoming a problem.

The main subject of this book is the investigation of cardiac function and in particular ventricular function with radionuclide-based techniques.

The thrust here is for those who want to know more than the answer to an exam question - an approach to disease diagnosis and treatment which emphasizes thoughtful consideration of alternatives, finding ones way through uncertainties and lack of knowledge.

In the denervated state the mammalian heart, both in vivo and in vitro, is excited at very regular intervals, the coefficient of variance of the interbeat intervals not exceeding 2%.

Hypertension is a major world-wide health problem.

Why a book on contrast echocardiography?

This book is not meant to be a textbook or a handbook of phlebography of the lower limbs.

Patients currently experiencing acute myocardial infarcts are the beneficiaries of information gathered during the 80 years since this clinical phenomenon was described and the 20 years since treatment in coronary care units was introduced.

The extension of conventional M-mode to two-dimensional echocardiography has been a major advance for the evaluation and management of cardiac disease.

The goal of this book is to provide an integrated overview of some intriguing problems of cardiac electrophysiology.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is usually considered to be a compen- satory adjustment of heart muscle to an inreased work load.

In recent years methods have been developed to study cardiac function, myocardial blood flow and myocardial metabolism with radionuclides.

It is not often that one one writes the foreword for a book based on a conference which contributed so much to our knowledge in the field of hypertension.

In the thirty years since the advent of efTective pharmacologic treatment for hypertension, the world ofthe hypertensive has been transformed beyond recog- nition.

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Jlmbulatory monitoring of signals, related to cardiovascular system per- formances, is one of the biomedical technologies of wider interest.

The fundamental fault in hypertension is unknown.

In a relatively short period of time two-dimensional echocardiography has become the most important non-invasive diagnostic tool in the daily practice of a pediatric cardiologist who predominantly deals with congenital structural heart disease in neonates and infants.

This book contains the manuscripts of the majority of the papers given during the symposium 'Improvement of Myocardial Perfusion' which was held from Sep- tember 27-29,1984 in Mainz/Germany.

Despite considerable effort in primary prevention, coronary heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the industrialized nations.

In Groningen there has been a continuous investigation of hypertrophic cardio- myopathy for almost twenty years.

The ultrasound velocity tomography allows measurement of cardiac geometries for various phases in the cardiac cycle.

For many years, clinicians have relied on cardiac marily be categorized into two camps

In any textbook, basic scientific knowledge, and the art of clinical practice should be brought together in a rational manner and this volume on cardio- vascular therapy attempts to achieve this aim.

Twenty five years ago, cardiomyopathies or myocardopathies as they were sometimes called, were in very small print, and often the terms myocarditis and cardiomyopathy were used interchangeably.

This book is a gift from the international community of amyloid friends, presented to Professor Dr.

This book is designed as a definitive report on current capabilities of ultrasound imaging and Doppler evaluation of the cerebral circulation, both extracranial and intracranial.

In the last 15 years we have had the opportunity to teach Electrocardiography to many different types of student: doctors preparing to become cardiologists, cardiologists attending weekly 'refresher' sessions at our hospital, general practitioners who wish to become adept at electrocardiography and attend our yearly courses and, finally, the medical students of the Universidad Aut6noma of Barcelona.

Since the introduction of coronary angioplasty in 1977, this procedure has gained a steadily increasing position in the treatment of coronary artery obstmction.

In recent years considerable progress and new developments in diagnostic and interventional cardiology have been observed, such as balloon angioplasty of coronary artery stenoses, reperfusion techniques in acute myocardial infarction, new pacing, and cardioversion-defibrillation techniques in ventricular tachyar- rhythmias.

The task the editors have set themselves is to survey the field of clinical hemorheology from basic principles to up-to-date research.

Over the past twenty years, technical advances in coronary arteriography have contributed to our understanding of the pathophysiologic aspects and natural history of coronary artery disease.

Blood pressure control is central to all bodily functions.

urgery has been impressive during the past two decades.

Participation in athletics at both the recreational and competitive levels has grown enormously over the last decade, and now involves a substantial segment of the population of many countries, particularly those in Europe and North America.

In 1981 Dr Jean Lintermans published, with Dr van Dorp, a superb vol- ume, 'Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Echocardiography'.