Cardiovascular medicine

Hypertension is recognized to be one of the major risk factors for the development of peripheral vascular disease.

Atherosclerosis is the principal underlying cause of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease in people of the Western world.

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This book is written for medical students and house officers working on the wards, in the intensive care unit, and in the emergency room.

As President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), it is a pleasure to write this foreword.

Over the past years, the thrust of research in cardiology has been toward an understanding of the engineering of the heart as a pump that transports blood to the various organs of the body.

The chapters of this book represent contributions by plenary lecturers and invited symposium speakers of the Fourth Annual Meet- ing of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research, held on May 26-29, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This two week course on Arterial Pollution covered the field of atherosclerosis as a disease entity, and includes its anatomical, physiopathological, epidemiologic, preventi- ve and therapeutic aspects.

In this book the lectures of the first course of the International School of Cardiology at Ettore Majorana are presented.

By the year 2000, the most critical world problem--as things stand now--will be sustaining the human race.

Presently, and in the past, the predominant investigative emphasis among research workers in arteriosclerosis has been on plasma and arterial lipids.

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New, exciting, and innovative advances in the field of cerebrovascular medicine continue to occur at a rapid pace.

People of all ages and levels of health will benefit from the information and life changing strategies that are laid out in Creating Heart Health.

The Second Edition offers the reader the very latest information on lipid disorders from aetiology to the management of this ever increasing problem that is a major cause of atherosclerotic and cardiovascular disease.

This comprehensive book focuses on multimodality imaging technology, including overviews of the instruments and methods followed by practical case studies that highlight use in the detection and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Bridging the gap between advances in basic biology and chemistry and technological applications in the field of toxicity assessments, this book describes major areas of progress in the laboratory and clinic.

The establishment of precise and reliable biomarker tests for the early stages of cardiovascular disease is of great importance and can be the cornerstone in the prevention of future cardiovascular disease (CVD).

To achieve cardiac regeneration using pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, researchers must understand iPS cell generation methods, cardiomyocyte differentiation protocols, cardiomyocyte characterization methods, and tissue engineering.

Understanding the nature and role of endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor appears to be crucial in the quest for improved treatments for hypertension, diabetes, ischemia-reperfusion and other vascular disorders.

Open a Window into the Autonomic Nervous SystemQuantifying the amount of autonomic nervous system activity in an individual patient can be extremely important, because it provides a gauge of disease severity in a large number of diseases.

The function and life span of endothelial cells have a large impact upon the quality and expectancy of an individual's life.

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Practice and Procedures are continually changing with a corresponding improvement in healthcare.

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This textbook focuses on the vascular biology and physiology that underlie vascular disorders in clinical medicine.

For the past 30 years I have been teaching lipid biochemistry to'inedical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

This monograph was developed from a collection of papers that were origi- nally presented at a symposium entitled "e;Pathogenesis of Hypertension"e; held at the Henry Chauncy Conference Center, Princeton.

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Few advances in cardiovascular medicine have so captured the inter- est of physicians and the public alike as has coronary artery bypass surgery.

As longevity increases, the scope of cardiac disorders extends more widely in the sixth decade and onward into the seventh and subse- quent decades.

This monograph summarizes the results of a fifteen-year vascular pathology research project sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Substantial progress toward reconciling disparate theories of the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis was recorded in Volume I of this book.

a comprehensive and real picture of the complexities of ischemic heart disease, both to the person who deals in day to day practice with its problems, as well as to the This book presents a comprehensive picture of is- chemic heart disease to those who, either as practition- student and resident who tries to develop firm concepts ers or students, deal with the varied facets of this com- regarding the varied states observed in this common plex subject.

A variety of cardiovascular illnesses are now being encountered with surprising frequency in many general adult medical practices.

In Atlas of Nuclear Cardiology, Doctors Dilsizian and Narula have worked together with over a dozen leading authorities to capture the most up-to-date and pertinent information in the field of nuclear cardiology.

In this edition of the Atlas of Hypertension, Dr.

In its third edition, the Atlas of Heart Failure provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of normal cardiac function, the mechanisms of dysfunction in heart failure, and the therapeutic approaches that are available to manage the syndrome.

We are in the early years of a new millen- Tremendous interest is now focused on nium and atherosclerotic disease is now the characteristics of atherosclerotic thought to underlie more adult deaths plaques, as we recognize that many clinical than any other disease on the planet.

HE IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR, or T"e;lCD,"e; is arguably the most technologically challenging type of therapy that physicians utilize today.

In this book, the importance and value of accurately assessing coronary stenosis morphology is reviewed, including recent thoughts regarding the pathogenetic mechanisms ascribed to angiographically assessed morphology, several new and potentially more accurate means of determining plaque composition and its relationship to stenosis morphology, and the latest hypotheses regarding interventional device selection.

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Heat shock proteins (HSP) were originally described in heat-shocked drosophila by Ritossa in the early 1960's.