Cardiovascular medicine

Few diagnostic methods in Cardiology have heralded such revolutionary developments as the introduction of coronary arteriography.

Basic Concepts in Doppler Echocardiography The objective of this textbook is to offer a detailed yet concise overview of the various applications of Doppler echocardiography.

The rhythm of the heart, its normal functioning and pathologic disturbances, has been a favored subject of investigation by clinical and basic scientists in recent decades.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of a satellite symposium of the XXXth congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.

The hemodynamic mechanisms of hypertension are often limited to the study of three dominant parameters: blood pressure, cardiac output and vascular resis- tance.

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This book attempts to focus on the most important clinical aspects of ischaemic heart disease.

Growing experimental evidence is beeing produced in support of the thesis that lipid pe,oxidation is an important mediator of both vascular and myocardial tissue derangement.

To our knowledge, this is the first book dealing exclusively with myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography (MC-2DE), a new and exciting diagnostic methodology for assessment of myocardial perfusion, which has seen rapid development and has now entered the clinical stage.

This volume represents the proceedings ofthe invited lectures ofthe first International Symposium on "e;Serotonin from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics"e; which was held in Florence on March 29 -Aprill, 1989.

This compact guide on the practical management of the hypertensive individual first saw light in 1990.

Therapy in cardiology has advanced enormously in recent years.

According to Schopenhauer problems are usually passing through three stages: - in the first stage they are ignored or just smiled at, - in the second stage they are fought, and in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident, just taken for granted.

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There are few techniques that have influenced therapeutic strategies in modem cardiology to a similar extent as coronary arteriography.

We were particularly pleased to compile this volume entitled 'Clinical Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias'.

The original series, Advances in Prostaglandin Research, edited by Sultan M.

Cardiology embraces a number of different conditions and disease processes.

Cardiovascular diseases account for about half of total mortality in industrialised societies.

This book is a comprehensive overview of electrocardiography and the major effects of current cardiac pharmacological therapy on electrocardiography.

This monograph represents an attempt to collect the methods developed within the past decade in which echocardiography was being used to guide or to assess the results of some cardiovascular interventions or to overcome the imaging limitations of transthoracic approaches.

Recently, much progress has been made with echocardiography and Doppler techniques and these ultrasound methods have grown in importance and reliability as non-invasive diagnostic procedures for many cardiovascular disorders.

The advances in the field of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease continue at an increasingly rapid pace and it is an arduous task for those not directly involved to keep up with the latest developments.

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It gives us great pleasure to contribute a short introduction outstanding book.

The noninvasive evaluation of hemodynamics in congenital heart disease is an application for which Doppler ultrasound is ideally suited.

Today, coronary artery disease is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in the Western World.

AIMS OF THE COLOGNE-SYMPOSIUM ON RADIOLABELLED PLATELETS In 1976, M.

Sudden death is probably the greatest challenge facing modem cardiology today.

Since the introduction of ultrasound in cardiology in the mid fifties, echocar- diography has continued to grow and has finally become, in particular after the introduction of Doppler modalities, the working horse of the cardiologist.

In November 1986, I was invited to attend a symposium held in Barcelona on Diseases of the Pericardium.

For almost 40 years, a small but intense group of cardiovascular investigators have evaluated cardiac performance by measuring the mass, velocity, and acceleration of blood ejected from the left ventricle.

In industrialized countries, ischemic heart disease is by far the most common organ-specific cause of death.

Obstruction of coronary blood flow and the resultant consequences are the center stage pathophysiologic events in cardiology today.

In the past, coronary arteriography was the only modality available to provide high quality images of the coronary anatomy.

Developments in the electrical treatment of arrhythmias have been so fast over the last few years that access to available, state-of-the-art knowledge has become a major challenge.

A unique overview of all major angiographic lipid intervention trials, presented by their principal investigators.

Coronary heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western World and increasingly elsewhere.

This book presents the lectures and posters of some of the main leaders in the field of th magnesium research and medical applications delivered at the 8 International Symposium on Magnesium, which took place on 5-9 October, 1997 in Heraklion, Crete under the chairmanship of Professor Theophilos Theophanides.

Based on a number of collaborative efforts between basic researchers and clinicians from different institutions in Leiden, this book covers the initial and promising results of these efforts.

Angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis have become attractive targets for drug therapy because of their key roles in a broad spectrum of pathological disease states ranging from macular degeneration to tumor growth and metastasis.