Osama I. Soliman • Folkert J. ten Cate Editors 2018 Since the conception of the first aortic valvular intervention in 1912, it took the medical and surgical cardiology community over four decades to perform the first tricuspid valvular intervention in 1954. Technological advancement now is relatively faster; while the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement took place in 2002, transcatheter […]
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Toshio Nakanishi • Roger R. Markwald H. Scott Baldwin • Bradley B. Keller Deepak Srivastava • Hiroyuki Yamagishi Editors 2016 From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology This book is based on the 7th Takao International Symposium on the Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease held in August 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. The Takao symposium […]
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M. R. Pinsky · L. Brochard · J. Mancebo G. Hedenstierna (Eds.) 2009
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Steven M. Hollenberg Tracy Walker 2006 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an enormous problem in industrialized nations. Despite a declining incidence, an estimated 70 million Americans have some form of CVD, which causes more than 700,000 deaths and prompts 6.4 million hospital admissions each year.
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Robert B. Taylo 2005 A Handbook In the end, most of our patients—and also most of us clinicians— will die a cardiovascular death. During life, many will experience discomfort and disability caused by diseases of the heart and blood vessels. This book is intended to be a primer on these causes of morbidity and mortality.
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Edited by MICHAEL T. JOHNSTONE ARISTIDIS VEVES 2005 It has been only four years since the first edition of this very successful text, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. During this time, interest in diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease has increased logarithmically, having been the subject of many studies now found in the cardiology literature as […]
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M. M. Gulizia (Editor) 2005 Clinical practice is evolving at a rapid pace, nowhere more so than in the field of cardiology. Acute Coronary Syndromes, Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Syncope, and Prevention of Global Cardiovascular Risk are the main Emerging Pathologies to which many investigators are addressing their researches.
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Samuel M. Butman Editor 2005 In the first 125 interventional procedures I performed in the early 1980s, using primitive equipment, no patient had a myocardial infarction, none required urgent surgery, and none died. That run did not last, of course, and now having performed over 2,200 percutaneous coronary interventions, I know better.
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Giuseppe Barbaro – Franck Boccara (Eds) 2005 Never in the history of humanity has knowledge progressed as quickly as in the field of AIDS. Over a period of 15 years, successive discoveries of the disease, its viral origin, the virus responsible, its physiopathology and highly effective therapies have led to spectacular improvement in life expectancy and in the quality of life […]
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Edited by Haruo Sugi 2005 Fifty Years of Research Fifty years have passed since the monumental discovery that muscle contraction results from relative sliding between the thick filaments, consisting mainly of myosin, and the thin filaments, consisting mainly of actin (A.F. Huxley and Niedergerke, Nature 173; 971-973, 1954; H.E, Huxley and Hanson, Nature 173: 973-976, 1954). Until the early […]
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