Editors: Maria Dorobantu, Giuseppe Mancia, Guido Grassi, Victor Voicu 2019 Hypertension is the most prevalent risk factor for heart failure (HF) and large epidemiological studies show it to carry the highest population attributable risk for this disease compared to all other risk factors. A long known positive aspect, however, is that the blood pressure (BP) […]

Rui Manuel de Sousa Sequeira Antunes de Almeida Fabio Biscegli Jatene Editors 2019 A Clinical Casebook The book Cardiovascular Surgery—A Clinical Casebook is a great team effort from a group of medical students who are interested in cardiovascular surgery. Born from the wish to contribute to the development of graduating medical students and residents in this specialty, this book […]

Toshio Nakanishi • H. Scott Baldwin Jeffrey R. Fineman • Hiroyuki Yamagishi Editors 2020 How does the advance in science happen? Is it a sudden phenomenon like an unexpected illumination or a result of collective addition of many small facts? This book is based on the 8th Takao International Symposium on Molecular Mechanism of Cardiopulmonary Disease—New Insight into […]

Gianfranco Sinagra • Marco Merlo Bruno Pinamonti Editors 2019 From Genetics to Clinical Management

Peter Spector 2020 Why do we need another book about atrial  fibrillation?Despite the numerous good books available on the topic, there are several reasons I think it is worthwhile writing yet another book about atrial fibrillation (AF). Fibrillation involves elegant physiology that is not widely taught or understood, and as a result there are widespread misconceptions or illconceived beliefs […]

John R. Hampton 2013 The ECG Made Easy was first published in 1973, and well over half a million copies of the first seven editions have been sold. The book has been translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian and Turkish, and into two Chinese languages. The aims of this edition are the same as before: […]

Sajjan M 2013 Present-day cardiology is undergoing immense advancements. ECG still remains the key stone in the clinical management of various cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. Currently, interpreting ECG for medicos is a difficult task. So my efforts into this book endeavor to equip them to interpret ECG confidently and independently. My experience with trying to understand ECG as an undergraduate […]

José Marín-García 2010 Heart Failure (HF), an endemic problem of great magnitude in the world, is essentially the final and common pathway of cardiovascular diseases that result in cardiac systolic and/or diastolic dysfunction. Common underlying disorders in HF include cardiomyopathy, primary or acquired from previous myocardial infarctions, chronic myocardial ischemia, hypertension, diabetes, valvular defects, dysrhythmias, and congenital heart defects.