Cardiovascular medicine

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.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die experimentellen Grundlagen und die ersten klinischen Erfahrungen mit der Anwendung der Hochfrequenzablation bei Patienten mit tachykarden Herzrhythmusstörungen.

Dieses Buch erläutert nach Abhandlung der chemischen und physikalischen Grundlagen von Gewebeklebstoffen, ihre derzeitige Verwendung in der Humanmedizin, speziell in der Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie.

The sodium of animal cell membranes converts the chemical energy obtained from the hydrolysis of adenosine 5' -triphosphate into a movement of the cations Na + and K + against an electrochemical gradient.

Marfan Syndrome is a hereditary disorder of connective tissue which primarily affects the eyes, skeleton, blood vessels, and various structures of the heart.