Over the past 15 years, a multitude of new transluminal techniques have been developed, all designed to broaden the range of indications and improve the results of angioplasty.
Based on the results of the latest congress of the EuropeanAssociation for the Study of the Liver (EASL), this volumemakes excellent reading since it explores in detail therole of free radical reactions in liver diseases.
The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for informa- tion, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the study of the interactions between the heart and the brain, especially in the field of cerebral ischemia.
"e;Rate Adaptive Cardiac Pacing"e; provides a comprehensiveoverview of this most advanced form of stimulating the heartby means of cardiac pacemakers that vary the pacing rateaccording to the needs of the patients.
From its discovery in 1929 by Hans Berger until the late 1960s, when sensory visual and auditory evoked potentials were dis- covered and became popular, the EEG was the most important method of neurophysiological examination.
Die rasche Entwicklung der Erkenntnisse über peptische Magen-Darm-Erkrankungen macht für den gastroenterologisch interessierten Arzt eine stetige Weiterbildung erforderlich.
Diese Monographie gibt auf der Grundlage umfangreicher eigener Untersuchungen einen aktuellen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Immunhistochemie in der klinischen und experimentellen Neuroonkologie.
Pioneering work on hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus, and the discovery of hepatitis B-like virus in animals during the 1970's has been followed, over the past ten years, by an explosion of interest in how these viruses replicate, maintain chronic infections, and cause liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Dies ist die erste Monographie über die Brüche des distalen Unterschenkelsegmentes - vor allem die intraartikulären sogenannten Pilon-tibial-Frakturen.
Angaben über die Inzidenz neurologischer und psychischer Funktionsstörungen nach kardiopulmonalen Bypassoperationen reichen in verschiedenen klinischen Untersuchungen von 5 bis 64 %, wobei die Funktionsausfälle von leichten neurologischen Veränderungen bis zu zerebralen Infarkten reichen.
The sellar region and paranasal sinuses constitute the anatomical sections of the skull base in which pathological entities warrant interdisciplinary management.
Leading medical ethicists, theologists, lawyers, transplant surgeons and physicians discuss 5 major ethical topics concerning the transplantation of human organs.
A book that compiles symposia papers from the "e;International Journal of Colorectal Disease"e; on issues that are highly controversial and hotly debated.
How to treat advanced prostatic cancer remains controversial, despite intense basic and clinical research investigating the pathogenesis and natural history of this unique cancer highly prevalent in elderly males.
Ökosystem Darm II setzt den interdisziplinären Dialog fort, der mit dem vor einem Jahr erschienenen Band "Ökosystem Darm: Morphologie, Mikrobiologie, Immunologie - Klinik und Therapie akuter und chronischer entzündlicher Darmerkrankungen" begonnen wurde.
Many advances have occurred in the last 5 years especiallyin understanding genetic susceptibility factors, the role ofimmune response in chronic arthritis and the relationshipbetween cellular processes that underlie inflammation andtissue damage.
Eine signifikante Verbesserung der Heilungs- und Überlebensraten war in den letzten Jahren bei metastasierten gastrointestinalen Tumoren nicht zu beobachten.
The most recent volume in the series; Volume 19 has selected papers from the annual meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery held in Dusseldorf, 1990.
