Cardiovascular medicine

One of the major biomedical triumphs of the post-World War II era was the defmitive demonstration that hypercholesterolemia is a key causative factor in atherosclerosis; that hypercholesterolemia can be effectively treated; and that treatment significantly reduces not only coronary disease mortality but also all- cause mortality.

Accurate diagnosis of arrhythmias is the goal of this volume.

Cardiac disease is the major cause of death in dialysis patients, accounting for over one third of deaths.

The cardiac system represents one of the most exciting challenges to human ingenuity.

Interventional cardiology is a creative, innovative, and rapidly advancing frontier of cardiology.

The molecular basis for atrial fibrillation continues to be largely unknown, and therapy remains unchanged, aimed at controlling the heart rate and preventing systemic emboli with anticoagulation.

Few complications of systemic diseases are better understood than diabetic nephropathy.

Whenever the heart is challenged with an increased work load for a prolonged period, it responds by increasing its muscle mass--a phenomenon known as cardiac hypertrophy.

This book is an attempt to indicate to researchers and clinicians a simple way to approach the complexity of cardiovascular neural regulation.

Each year over 400,000 people have a new onset of heart failure in the United States, adding to a current patient population of over 4.

Traditional methods of medical education and training are changing rapidly.

This is the third volume in the series, in which the topic of the effects of radio frequencies on human tissue, now increasingly a concern with the prevalence of cell phones, is explored by Prof.

This monograph contains the proceedings from the Advanced Study Institute on "e;Vascular Endothelium: Physiological Basis of Clinical Problems"e; which took place in Corfu, Greece in June 1990.

The purpose of this workshop was to assess the value of DNA polymorphisms for the prediction, diagnosis or elucidation of aetiology for common metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and atherosclerosis.

Nature is totally amoral!

Collateral blood vessels develop by growth of pre or newly formed structures in almost all vascular provinces as a consequence of progressing stenosis of the main artery.

As the majority of cardiovascular deaths are related to myocardial ischemia, it is necessary to understand the various aspects of ischemic heart disease.

This book is based on papers presented at a Symposium held in Seoul, Korea in 1992.

That geriatric cardiology has become a science and clinical discipline in its own rights is beyond dispute.

In an attempt to clarify the situation regarding the diagnosis, pathogenesis and therapeutics of cardiovascular dysfunction in diabetes, an International Symposium on Diabetic Heart was held in Tokyo, Japan during October, 1989.

The application of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to the cardiovascular system is a relatively new phenomenon.

From the 19-29 May 1991 the NATO ASI Course PAsthma Treatment: A P Multidisciplinary Approach was held in Erice, on the rocky North West Coast of Sicily, facing the ancient Phoenician shore of the African Continent.

This monograph is intended to compile the lectures presented at the 4th Annual Symposium "e;Cardiac Surgery:1992"e; held at the Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St.

Although there are many books on angina, few are devoted to the important problem of how to evaluate drug efficacy in angina pectoris.

Coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States and other industrialized nations.

The need for publishing acomprehensive review ofa number ofdifferent membrane pathologiesofmuscleand non-musclecells inillnesses ranging from diabetes toheart disease and cancer lies on to the fact that there are several books dealing with the properties ofnormal cell membranes, although there are very few books focussing on the abnormal membrane behavior.

Ischemic Preconditioning: The Concept of Endogenous Cardioprotection consolidates, in one volume, both current knowledge and the most recent advances in ischemic preconditioning.

Angina pectoris with normal coronary arteriograms is a common entity which has puzzled cardiologists almost since the advent of coronary arteriography.

Numerous studies have documented the importance of diastolic dysfunction in heart disease.

In 1979 Dr Sperelakis published the `Origin of the Cardiac Resting Potential' in the Handbook of Physiology of the Heart.

The topicS in this book represent the presentations given at the Fifth Annual Meeting entitled "e;Cardiac Surgery: Current Issues"e; held at the Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort.

The Fourteenth Washington International Spring Symposium, held in Washington, D.

The topics in this book represent the presentations given at the Seventh Annual Meeting entitled "e;Cardiac Surgery: Current Issues,"e; held at the Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St.

On April 8-9, 1994, a symposium entitled Control of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems in Health and Disease was held at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

This book is a compilation of the lectures and oral and poster communications presented at the Advanced Study.

Most of the progress in cardiac energetics in recent years has been spurred by the pressure-volume area concept, the natural extension into energetics of earlier pioneering work delineating the time-varying elastance framework for ventricular contraction.

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology.

Despite the considerable success in treating diseases of the heart and blood vessels, they still remain the major cause of mortality throughout the world.

Mechanisms of Heart Failure is based on papers selected from poster presentations made at the International Conference on Heart Failure, Winnipeg, May 20-23, 1994.

The topics in this book represent the presentations given at the Fifth Annual Meeting entitled "e;Cardiac Surgery: Current Issues"e; held at the Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St.

The origins of what have come to be known as the "e;Oxford"e; Conferences on modelling and the control of breathing can be traced back to a discussion between Dan Cunningham and Richard Hercynski at a conference dinner at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1971.

From molecular biology to clinical applications of selective receptor blockade, the present volume compiles the latest advances of this emerging field.

The International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) was founded in August 1988 during the 9th International Symposium on Arterial Chemoreception which was held at Park City, Utah, USA.

Editing a book of this nature was a simultaneously exhilarating and frightening experience.

Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology is intended for the clinical cardiologist who wishes to refresh or deepen his understanding of the cellular basis of cardiac electrophysiology, for researchers interested in the basis of the electrical activity of the heart, such as clinical investigators, physiologists or pharmacologists, for teachers in physiology, pharmacology and other biomedical studies, and for medical students from graduate to postgraduate level.

The enormous advances in molecular biology and genetics coupled with the progress in instrumentation and surgical techniques have produced a voluminous and often bewildering quantity of data.