Clinical and internal medicine

Nach langjähriger ärztlicher, klinischer und akademischer Tätig­ keit legt Professor Dr.

for the design of control programs; in extreme cases (as dis- cussed below, by Fine et al.

The Surgeon as a Humanist Medicine is the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Primary myocardial disease, nowadays referred to as congestive or, more re- cently, dilating cardiomyopathy, comprises disorders of varied etiology.

For more than ten years cell fusion techniques have been applied in studies on various lymphocyte functions.

Mankind in the second half of the twentieth century has encountered a number of social and economic problems, which, as never before, determine its future.

Microcirculation is a rather new field which has been of predominant interest to basic scientists, linking togeth~r technical, hemodynamic, and biochemical aspects.

An International Symposium "e;Catecholamines and the Heart"e; was held in Munich in May 1981, which was organized in cooperation with the Council on Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology and with the Microcirculation Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology.

The papers presented in this book were held at the International Sympo- sium on Myocardial Infarction at Young Age on January 30 and 31, 1981, in Bad Krozingen, FRG.

First described in 1907 by Schicke but recognized as a clinical entity only as recently as 1958, when Teare published the pathologic findings in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HeM), an explosion of knowledge about this fascinating disease has occurred, which has caused a profound evolution of our understanding of its broad pathophysiologic and clinical spectrum.

Our insight into the mechanisms of the physiology of reproduction has experienced a swift and constant development these last few years.

In this age when we are witnessing a veritable explosion in new modalities in diagnos- tic imaging we continue to have a great need for detailed studies of the vascularity of the brain in patients who have all types of cerebral vascular disease.

Howard C.

In der letzten Auflage des Handbuchs der inneren Medizin aus dem Jahre 1953 wurden im Rahmen der Abhandlung der Verdauungskrankheiten dem Dünn- und Dickdarm von NORBERT HENNING und W.

The exponential explosion of diagnostic techniques that is the hallmark of Twentieth Century medicine often makes us forget that the human perceptual senses are still the simplest, most reliable, and most readily available means of recognizing disease and detecting abnormalities in the human body.

The detection of ischemic myocardium is one of the major problems in modern cardiology.

All but one* of the following articles represent comprehensive reports on a workshop held between 7 and 9 May 1981 at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wfuzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Coronary Heart Disease, held in Frankfurt/Federal Republic of Germany.

The third American edition has been completely revised and expanded, although parts of the text of the second edition have been included.

The world community of pediatric nephrologists has grown to a great number of active members.