Stefan Dhein (Editor) Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr (Editor) Mario Delmar (Editor) 2005 Cardiovascular disease is among the most common causes of death in Western industrialized countries. Although a number of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities exist today, many problems remain unsolved. This implies the urgent need for future cardiovascular research.

Edited by ARUN J. SANYAL VIJAY H. SHAH 2005 PATHOBIOLOGY, EVALUATION, AND TREATMENT The past several years have seen a logarithmic increase in progress in the field of portal hypertension, both in clinical management as well as in pathobiology. For example, the implementation of beta-blockers in the primary and secondary prophylaxis of variceal hemorrhage and the establishment of […]

Edited by MARTIN QUINN 2005 Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Platelets are small anucleate blood-borne particles that play a central role in blood clot formation. In areas of endothelial damage or activation of the coagulation cascade, they change shape, release their granule contents, and activate. This process transforms the smooth discoid platelet into a sticky spiculated particle with the ability […]

Edited by Jose Marin-Garcia 2005

Edited by HOWARD C. HERRMANN 2005 From its beginnings, the field of interventional cardiology has been defined by coronary interventions. Today, percutaneous coronary intervention with balloon angioplasty, bare metal, and drug-eluting stents has become the predominant form of coronary revascularization and the most frequent therapeutic intervention in the modern cardiac catheterization laboratory.

Edited by Francisco J. Villarreal 2005 The presence of cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins within the myocardium allows the heart to fulfill critical physiological functions. However‚ the excessive deposition of ECM proteins (mostly collagens) within the myocardium can contribute to the transformation of the heart whose function relies on optimal mechanics into a dysfunctional organ.  

Edited by L. MICHAEL PRISANT 2005 Hypertension in the Elderly attempts to focus attention on the group of hypertensive patients with the largest body of outcomes trial data, but the poorest blood pressure control. Research data continue to recognize the importance of hypertension for contributing to both the morbidity and mortality of older patients.

M. GABRIEL KHAN 2005 In preparing this second edition of Heart Disease Diagnosis and Therapy: A Practical Approach, I was determined that this book must remain clinically focused because of the changing role of clinical cardiologists. The majority of cardiologists prefer to be invasive cardiologists; those who practice noninvasive cardiology spend much of their time performing and interpreting noninvasive […]

Edited by PAUL A. IAIZZO 2005 The medical device industry in the US is growing at an incredibly rapid pace; in fact, today it is as large as the automobile industry in terms of revenues. Not only has our overall understanding of the molecular basis of disease dramatically increased, but so has the number of available devices to […]