Cardiovascular medicine

Cardiac complications are a leading cause of death after surgery.

Promoting developments in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of coronary artery disease, this reference furnishes the latest information on new and emerging risk factors for atherothrombotic vascular disorders-analyzing lipid-related and psychosocial risk factors, the genetic aspects of disease, the potential role of infection and inflammatio

During the last few years, exciting new insights into mechanisms and treatment of stroke have been obtained from animal experiments.

This comprehensive reference emphasizes the dynamic events that occur in the maintenance and repair of blood vessels in health and abnormalities that may result from dysregulation of inflammatory and immune responses in disease.

Written and edited by world-renowned leaders in the field!

Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging is based on a groundbreaking NIH symposium sponsored by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

Addressing the pathology of the heart and cardiovascular system from a forensic perspective, Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Investigations guides the pathologist toward the effective resolution of cases.

This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and contemporary discussion of the physiology and pathophysiology of the chest wall as well as an overview of the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.

Basic EKG Facts is a complete beginners guide to the understanding of EKG interpretation.

Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across multiple disciplines.

Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood.

This guide to the proper use of the ECG in diagnosing acute myocardial infarction puts the combined experience of international authorities at your fingertips for immediate use.

This book draws on the established European guidelines from the ESC that address the key issues in sudden cardiac death, such as identifying individuals at risk prior to an episode of a ventricular tachyarrhythmia or a sudden cardiac arrest, and responding in a timely fashion to the person suffering the event out-of-the-hospital.

Pathology of Sudden Cardiac Death provides a comprehensive review of cardiovascular disorders.

Atrial fibrillation is underdiagnosed and preventative strategies are underutilized.

Pacing and ICDs are used increasingly in the management of arrhythmias and a number of different cardiac conditions.

Now there is an up-to-date guide for optimizing pharmacologic therapy in treating patients with heart failure.

If you are one of the many physicians from different specialty disciplines who perform endovascular interventions then this practical reference will help you to develop your endovascular skills and encompass them into daily practice.

Compiled from electrocardiographic data on more than 1,800 normal newborns, infants, children, and adolescents, this convenient reference gives you fast access to the limits of normality so that data from an individual patient can be quickly interpreted in terms of comparison to the general population.

This is a practical book for nurses on the management of patients with chronic cardiac disease.

This book is focused on the use of non-invasive imaging in clinical cardiology.

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Cardiac Pacing and ICDs continues to be an accessible and practical clinical reference for residents, fellows, surgeons, nurses, PAs, and technicians.

The management of non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) has rapidly evolved over the last few years and many guidelines have been provided and already updated.

Until recently, the cellular basis for sudden death, the Brugada Syndrome, has largely remained an unknown to modern arrhythmologists and cardiologists, particularly in the absence of any structural heart disease.

Pattern recognition is an important learning tool in the interpretation of ECGs.

Cardiologists today must have adequate basic training in vascular medicine in order to care for patients with peripheral vascular diseases.

In recent years there has been considerable interest in the diagnosis and understanding of ventricular repolarisation, particularly the QT interval prolongation and abnormal T and T/U wave morphology associated with torsades de pointes.

Congenital heart disease with its worldwide incidence of 1% is the most common inborn defect.

Congenital cardiovascular malformations are the single most common form of birth defect.

Profiles in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology is a collection of short biographies of scientists and physicians who have played (or still play) a significant role in improving diagnosis and therapy of heart rhythm disturbances including electrophysiology and pacing.

Over the years we have heard many complaints that there is no very simple book on cardiac pacing for real beginners.

The objective of this text is to synthesise the research based clinical treatment strategies that have been found to be most effective in the clinical management of heart failure as a disease.

This volume highlights current research on how the neuroendocrine system helps to influence emotional states and ultimately behavioral output.

This volume highlights current research on how the neuroendocrine system helps to influence emotional states and ultimately behavioral output.

Nitric oxide (NO) is one of the most remarkable biological molecules characterized at the turn of XX century.

Valve Surgery at the Turn of the Millennium covers valvular heart disease in the aortic and mitral valves in the adult patient.

The major characteristic pathological findings of pulmonary vascular remodelling are increased wall thickening of pulmonary vessels and mus- larization of small arteries.

Research into the paraoxonase (PON) multigene family has really only blossomed in the last 10 years.

Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences, they know no national borders, do not distinguish between races, ethnicities, rich or poor.

The leading textbook on the subject.

Senior scientists from neighboring and other NATO countries joined their efforts to help this region to get to know their problems, discussed their solutions and how they can be helped out.

Become body literate with Heart: An Owner's Guide, the next book in The Body Literacy Library, a helpful series that will break down heart health for a new generation of readers.

Globally, natural medicine has been considered as an important alternative to modern allopathic medicine.

Globally, natural medicine has been considered as an important alternative to modern allopathic medicine.

The Manual of Venous and Lymphatic Diseases constitutes a concise but comprehensive and contemporary description of the nature and management of venous and lymphatic diseases.