Cardiovascular medicine

Dyslipidemias: Pathophysiology, Evaluation and Management provides a wealth of general and detailed guidelines for the clinical evaluation and management of lipid disorders in adults and children.

Ischemic brain damage represents a major source of morbidity and mortality in westernized society and poses a significant financial burden on the health care system.

This succinct resource provides an ideal balance of the biology and practical therapeutic strategies for classic and non-classic BCR-ABL-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Few areas of medicine have evolved as rapidly as cardiac electrophysiology.

Heart Failure (HF) is the final and common pathway of all cardiovascular diseases.

This timely volume addresses the intimate pathophysiologic relationship between hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

The prevalence of hypertension is almost three times as high as that of diabetes mellitus type 2, with both conditions being major risk factors for stroke, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure.

A basic understanding of cardiovascular physiology is essential for optimal patient care.

Long-Term Care Medicine: A Pocket Guide lessens the uncertainty involved in caring for patients in a long-term care facility.

Peripheral and Cerebrovascular Intervention draws upon experts from diverse fields to provide readers with a comprehensive foundation for understanding and performing endovascular procedures-from the basic steps to the most current and advanced techniques.

Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting provides an authoritative, detailed discussion of cardiovascular disease balanced with practical utility.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) continues to challenge our health care system in the complexity of presentation and the ever increasing number of patients exhibiting signs and symptoms of an acute coronary syndrome.

After 17 years of private practice as a cardiovascular surgeon, my partners qu- tionedtherationalityofmydecisiontoleavetheclinicalpracticebehindandbecome acardiovascular pathologist.

Erectile dysfunction can affect all age groups.

The past 50 years have witnessed a breathtaking evolution in the approaches to the patient with an acute ST elevation myocardial infarction.

Diabetes and hypertension have evolved as two of the modern day epidemics affecting millions of people around the world.

Over the past three decades, carotid artery stenting has evolved to become a promising and viable alternative to carotid endarterectomy, especially for patients deemed to have high surgical risks.

This book is a comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT, its current state, applications, and future directions.

Substantial morbidity and mortality remains associated with thrombotic events has stimulated the rapid expansion of the available armamentarium to combat pathologic thrombosis.

As life expectancy is extended, the incidence and occurrence of Aortic Aneurysms are becoming increasingly common.

This timely volume addresses the areas of pathophysiology and therapy of pulmonary hypertension, which have seen exciting developments over the past decade.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a broad category of lung diseases that includes more than 150 disorders characterized by scarring or fibrosis of the lungs.

As the leading cause of adult disability, stroke poses substantial economic and psychological burdens to populations around the world.

In the United States, 40 to 45% of those over 60 years of age have the metabolic syndrome (1,2,3), and this percentage, based on estimates of the increasing prevalence ofexcess body weight and the more comprehensive diagnostic criteria for the syndrome, is likely to exceed 60% in newer survey analyses.

Neurointerventional radiology is evolving into a rarified and complex field, with more people today training to become neurointerventionalists than ever before.

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

Diabetes, particularly type 2, has become increasingly more common around the world.

If you're browsing through The Heart of the Matter, the threat of cardiac disease is lurking in your mind, and with good reason.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become an essential part of noninvasive diagnostic cardiac imaging.

In Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America, Dr.

The era of cardiac rehabilitation in the United States dates back at least thirty years, when Herman Hellerstein at Case Western Reserve, Andy Wallace at Duke and Ken Cooper in Dallas envisioned that a comprehensive lifestyle approach to the rehabi- tation and prevention of patients having had a cardiac event would potentially yield great benefits for the individual patient and the health care system.

Heart failure affects over 5 million patients in the United States alone, and is a chronic and debilitating disease.

Challenges for the treatment of valvular heart disease include the growing need for effective yet less invasive interventions and therapies to treat these progressive conditions.

Cardiovascular heart disease mortality in African Americans is the highest of all major racial/ethnic subpopulations in the United States.

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the ?

In On Bypass: Advanced Perfusion Techniques, editors Linda Mongero and James Beck have distilled the complex field of extrac- poreal circulation and intraoperative mechanical support down to its most basic and important components.

Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism highlights traditional, novel, and evolving aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE).

Over the past 5 years there has been great excitement and controversy in the scientific, financial, and lay literature for the potential of stem cell-based strategies for the prev- tion and treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF).

Cardiac Drug Therapy, 7th ed.

In the mid 1990s, Drs.

Advancements in the treatment and prevention of Atrial Fibrillation are presented in this important new book.

Over the past few decades, cardiovascular disease and diabetes have emerged as major public health problems, both as distinct clinical entities and as comorbid conditions.

Preventive cardiology is a fast moving field that places emphasis on the prevention and treatment of coronary disease.

In the four pages committed to a discussion of myocardial infarction in the first edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, published in 1950, there was no mention of use of the laboratory for management of patients.