Tomás Romero • Carolina Nazzal Nazal Fernando Lanas Editors 2025 This book addresses the reality of cardiovascular prevention (CVP) in more than half of the world’s population with limited or no access to primary health care and thus, to CVP strategies. Although there are excellent books on the established and recent advances in CVP, they […]
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Simon Stewart 2024 It is becoming increasingly obvious that within the ageing populations of high-income countries that cardiac events do not occur randomly. This is also the likely case among younger, more vulnerable populations living in low-to-middle-income countries. Critically, such ‘random’ events are not benign given they include hospital admissions and deaths that could have […]
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Marcelo F. Di Carli • Maurizio Dondi Raffaele Giubbini • Diana Paez Editors 2022 Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for 71% of deaths globally and, among them, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death, accounting for almost 44%, followed by cancer with 22%, respiratory diseases with 9%, and diabetes with 4% (World Health […]
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Timothy M. Maus Christopher R. Tainter Editors 2022 A Review of Basic Perioperative TEE and Critical Care Echocardiography Echocardiography and point-of-care ultrasound play an invaluable role in the management of hemodynamically unstable patients. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has a well-established history of utility in cardiac operating rooms, and the advances and increased availability of TEE, along […]
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Edited by SCOTT DOUGHERTY JONATHAN CARAPETIS LIESL ZÜHLKE NIGEL WILSON 2021 This book arose when the lead editor arrived to work in the Republic of Palau, an island nation situated in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean, and realised there was no definitive modern text that covered the field of acute rheumatic fever […]
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Arnold von Eckardstein • Christoph J. Binder Editors 2022 We are proud editors of this follow-up edition of the well-received Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Volume 170 “Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs,” which was published more than 15 years ago. Since then, major progress has been made in the primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases […]
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Robert E. Shaddy Daniel J. Penny Timothy F. Feltes Frank Cetta Seema Mital 2022 VOLUME I-II • TENTH EDITION Welcome to the 10th edition of Moss and Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult. This book contains the latest updates on all areas of pediatric cardiovascular disease. New […]
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Peter Kokkinos • Puneet Narayan Editors 2019 Prevention and Management in Clinical Practice Physical activity is the most underutilized medical intervention in prevention and management of cardiovascular disease. This despite the fact that it is inexpensive, relatively low risk, and easily incorporated in most lifestyles. The link between physical activity and health was recognized by […]
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Editors: Tomoaki Ikeda, Chizuko Aoki-Kamiya 2019 The advance in medical and surgical treatments for congenital heart disease has allowed many women with congenital heart disease to reach adulthood with less limitation of motility. Inherited diseases, such as channelopathies and heritable connective tissue disorders, have been able to be diagnosed in youth by genetic tests. Social […]
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Editor Vassyl A. Lonchyna 2019 Critical thinking and following evidence-based medicine (EBM) are of paramount importance in the daily care of critically ill surgical patients. While clinical experience is invaluable, one must also be of the mindset that we have to strive to always improve our clinical thinking, reasoning, and actions. What is gospel today […]
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