Satish Mittal 2005 Dr. Satish Mittal has produced a single authored book entitled, Coronary Heart Disease in Clinical Practice. In it, he has reviewed several clinical topics that are important in evaluation and treatment of patients with coronary heart disease. Topics reviewed include risk factors, diabetes, hypertension, coronary interventions, heart failure, and arrhythmias.

David R. Ramsdale 2005 Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening disease with substantial morbidity and mortality (20% or more) despite improved techniques to aid diagnosis and modern antibiotics and surgical therapies. It affects individuals with underlying structural cardiac defects who develop bacteremia, often as a result of dental, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, respiratory, or cardiac invasive/surgical procedures.

H. Mori, H. Matsuda (Eds.) 2005 The cardiovascular system transports oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body; therefore, any impediment to this system through, for example, a circulatory disorder, represents a serious threat to organs, tissues, and cells. Obstructive diseases of vessels with a diameter of more than 1 mm can be treated by conventional surgical and […]

Edited by MOHAN K RAI ADA JULIAN F R PATON SERGEY KASPAROV MICHAEL J KATOVICH 2005 With the postgenomic transcriptional era currently flourishing, the time seemed right to put together a book entitled Cardiovascular Genomics. Cardiovascular genomics is the study of genes relevant to the function and dysfunction of vital organs that both form and control the cardiovascular […]

Edited by GARY GERSTENBLITH 2005 The number of older individuals, and the proportion that they represent of the total population, are rapidly increasing. Even more striking is the high proportion the elderly represent of the patient population with cardiovascular disease (CVD). This is due in part to demographic trends, but also to more successful identification, prevention, and management strategies employed […]

Edited by JOSEPH P. ORNATO MARY ANN PEBERDY 2005 More than 460,000 Americans die each year from sudden, unexpected cardiac arrest. Despite the fact that there have been more than 50 years of scientific, experimental, and clinical studies since the introduction of modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s, survival remains dismal.

Richard A. Hopkins 2005 This volume is a follow-up to the book Cardiac Reconstructions with Allograft Valves, which was written with five contributors and an outstanding artist. Since its publication in 1989, the information in this field has increased dramatically, paralleling the increased clinical use of cardiovascular allograft tissues.

Edited by ROGER J. LAHAM DONALD S. BAIM 2005 Atherosclerotic disease remains the leading cause of death in the Western Hemisphere, and its prevalence continues to increase as the population ages. Despite progress in surgical and catheter-based revascularization, an ever increasing number of patients are either not candidates for these therapies or remain symptomatic despite prior revascularization and maximal ongoing […]