Cardiovascular medicine

Die Blutdruckselbstmessung erweitert die Möglichkeiten der Diagnostik, der Therapie sowie der Compliance des Patienten bei arterieller Hypertonie erheblich.

Auf den ersten Blick scheint das Thema des vorliegenden Buches zunächst weniger ein chirurgisches zu sein, sondern mehr ein rein kardiologisches.

Noch immer sterben über die Hälfte aller Patienten in direkter Folge eines Herzinfarktes.

This book aims to provide an easily read general account of clinical cardiology.

The measurement of cardio-circulatory and gas-exchange parameters during phy- sical exercise - the so-called ergo spirometry or cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) - as a basis of pathophysiological and clinical research has a long tradition in Cologne.

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty is presently the widest used non-surgi- cal method for the treatment of stenotic lesions in coronary artery disease.

Calcium antagonists are currently the most extensively investigated drugs for the treatment of heart disease.

There is clear evidence that in severe hypertension lowering blood pressure, by drug therapy decreases the incidence of major cardiovascular events.

Cardiac hypertrophy and accompanying phenomena have received increasing attention in recent years - particularly in the basic sciences.

A vast literature has been concerned with arteriosclerosis and yet, many aspects of pathogenesis and of the mechanism of development of the arteriosclerotic vascular lesion remain only poorly understood.

Die bislang geübte punktuelle Messung des Blutdrucks erlaubt nur einen punktuellen Einblick in das variable Blutdrucktagesprofil des Menschen.

Neueste Forschungsergebnisse zu extrarenalen Aldosteronwirkungen sind Gegenstand dieses Buches.

Traditionally, cardiac hypertrophy is regarded as an adaptation of the heart to permanent mechanical overload.

The myocardium in heart failure: Cellular and subcellular alterations in the failing human myocardium.

In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of our knowledge regarding the role of the endothelium in the control of vascular tone (and organ perfusion) in health and disease.

Although surgical and catheter-based revascularization techniques have substan- tially improved today's therapeutic potential in ischemic heart disease, in the majority of patients treatment will be conservative for a number of reasons, the cost-effectiveness of non-pharmacological approaches being of major importance.

In 1956, Bruno Kisch (90) discovered a special form of myocyte in the guinea pig heart atrium which contained peculiar, dense inclusions, but it was not before the early 1980s that cardiac hormones were isolated and characterized independently and almost simultaneously by several working groups.

In addition to standardized casual blood pressure readings, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) - using automatic noninvasive (= indirect) devices for home readings and fully automated monitors for 24-h profiles - have become a widely used necessary tool in clinical research.

It was the genius of Gordon Murray in Toronto that introduced the use of allografts into cardiac surgery in the 1950s.

This is a Festschrift to Professor Sir Stanley Peart, Professor of Medicine at St.

Since coronary angioplasty was first practiced by Andreas Gruntzig in 1977, it has rapidly developed into a technique widely used on patients with chronic and acute coronary heart disease.