M. A. Khamashta (Ed.) 2006 Antiphospholipid Syndrome The studies and discussions presented in the second edition of the Hughes Syndrome text had their beginning with a 1983 British Medical Journal publication entitled “Thrombosis, abortion, cerebral disease and the lupus anticoagulant.” In the mid-20th-century, it was recognized that some patients with systemic lupus erythematosus had biological false positive serological tests for […]
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H.-P. Schultheiss, J.-F. Kapp, G. Grötzbach Editors 2006 Following its tradition of promoting novel areas of scientific discourse, the Ernst Schering Research Foundation (ESRF) hosted this workshop on chronic viral and inflammatory cardiomyopathy. In late October 2004, scientists from Canada, Germany, the Georgian Republic, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden, and the United States gathered in Berlin to […]
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Edited by Gerard Pasterkamp and Dominique P. V. de Kleijn 2006 In the last decade, technical improvements have changed the inventory of many research laboratories. New techniques and discoveries continuously give rise to observations that result in the definition of new research objectives. In the past, research departments were clearly demarcated.
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Matthew J. Budoff and Jerold S. Shinbane Editors 2006 Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease Since its introduction in the early 1970s, computed tomography (CT) has become a robust modality to evaluate extracranial, thoracic, and abdominal vascular distributions. It has become a gold standard to non-invasively image the aorta, pulmonary arteries, great vessels, renal and peripheral arteries. However, cardiac anatomy […]
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Edited by Antonio Raviele 2006 The year 1988 marked the beginning of the International Workshop on Cardiac Arrhythmias. This biannual series of meetings was initiated with the following goals: (1) to present technological advances in the field of cardiac arrhythmias, (2) to publicise the results of current research, and (3) to assess the impact of new diagnostic and therapeutic […]
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M. R. Pinsky · L. Brochard · J. Mancebo 2006
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Editors Salvador Moncada and Annie Higgs 2006 It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit this book. My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It has sometimes […]
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Editors Salvador Moncada and Annie Higgs 2006 It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit this book. My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It has sometimes […]
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Edited by Edward D. Frohlich Richard N. Re 2006 How exciting it is to see a field so well established as the renin angiotensin system continue to grow and mature. Originally, following the original identification of renin by Tigerstedt and Bergman over 100 years ago, workers in this area spent years attempting to establish its role in experimental […]
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Edited by Simo S. Oja Pirjo Saransaari 2006 The 15th Taurine Meeting, “Taurine Today,” was held June 12–15, 2005, in Tampere, Finland. Tampere is the third largest city (200,000 inhabitants) in Finland and the largest inland city in Scandinavia, located 109 miles north of Helsinki, capital of Finland. The meeting venue was the Scandic Hotel Rosendahl on the […]
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