Edited by S. Serge Barold Philippe Ritter 2008 The last of an ongoing series of Cardiostim monographs all devoted to cardiac pacing, was published four years ago. Since then, cardiac resynchronization for the treatment of heart failure has undergone spectacular progress and has revolutionized device therapy.
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Ramón Ribes · Sergio Mejía 2008 After the successful publication of Medical English, Radiological English and Primary Care English by Springer, I considered it a top priority to keep on writing medical English books by specialties, which could become useful tools for health care professionals and medical students all over the world.
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Edited by Fred M. Kusumoto and Nora F. Goldschlager 2008 As early as the late 1700s, Physicians speculated that electrical current could be used to stimulate the heart. In 1882, von Ziemssen used electrical current to directly stimulate the heart of a woman whose anterior chest wall had been removed after resection of a chest tumor. In 1952, […]
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Marc Thiriet 2008 Part I: Biology The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) was created in 1968 by the Université de Montréal to promote research in the mathematical sciences. It is now a national institute that hosts several groups and holds special theme years, summer schools, workshops, and a postdoctoral program.
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Marc Thiriet 2008 Part II: Mechanics and Medical Aspects The Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) was created in 1968 by the Université de Montréal to promote research in the mathematical sciences. It is now a national institute that hosts several groups and holds special theme years, summer schools, workshops, and a postdoctoral program.
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Edited by Jordan L. Holtzman 2008 Atherosclerosis and Oxidant Stress: A New Perspective During the twentieth century we saw a veritable revolution in medicine. Some of the most notable advances have been in the elucidation of the risk factors for and treatment of cardio- and cerebral vascular disease. Identifying these factors through epidemiological studies has led to the […]
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José Marín-García 2008 Cardiac aging, like aging in general, is a complex process involving numerous cellular and molecular changes, which along the way contribute to the expression of the multiple phenotypes of aging, “the different faces” of cardiac aging. Several plausible theories have been considered to explain aging, e.g., evolutionary, free radical, and somatic mutation.
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Edited by Sean I. Savitz Daniel M. Rosenbaum 2008 During the past decade, the field of stroke has emerged from an era of therapeutic nihilism to a speciality that offers timely therapies to reperfuse the ischemic brain. While there has been limited success with thrombolytic agents for acute stroke, few patients receive these medications because of the narrow therapeutic […]
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Ihor Gussak and Charles Antzelevitch (Eds) 2008 Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention She was about 35 years old when she first became my patient in 1975. She had suffered from bouts of a supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) as far back as she could remember. “In the early days,” she recalled, “when I was a kid, they would give me something […]
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Edited by Frans J. Th. Wackers Wendy Bruni Barry L. Zaret 2008 How to Set Up and Maintain a Laboratory In the USA, the performance of nuclear cardiology studies increased dramatically over the past 5 to 10 years. In 2001, the number of patient visits for myocardial perfusion imaging was 7.9 million. In 2005, the number of patient […]
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