Edited by WILLIAM H. MAISEL 2009 Heart failure affects close to five million patients in the United States and causes substantial morbidity and mortality. It is often a chronic and debilitating disease that results in mortality rates after initial diagnosis that approach or exceed mortality rates of many common malignancies.
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M. Oudkerk · M. F. Reiser (Eds.) 2009 The coronary circulation was fi rst described by Ibn al Nafi s (1213–1288) in the thirteenth century. He published Kitab Mujiz – The concise book (1250) in Damascus (Syria) in which he writes the following: ”the nourishment of the heart is from the blood that goes through the vessels that […]
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Henrik S. Thomsen · Judith A. W. Webb (Eds.) 2009 Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines A new edition of Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines has become necessary relatively soon after the fi rst edition. Unusually for a book on contrast media (CM), the first edition sold out in 30 months. Since the first edition, nephrogenic […]
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Lisa Bergersen l Susan Foerster l Audrey C. Marshall l Jeffery Meadows Editors 2009 The Catheterization Manual
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Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, and Thomas P. Shanley (Eds.) 2009 The development of pediatric cardiac surgical programs has had a profound effect on the specialty of pediatric critical care medicine, and as a result, the field of pediatric cardiac intensive care is rapidly emerging as a separate subspecialty of pediatric critical care medicine. The ability to […]
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Edited by Igor R. Efimov Mark W. Kroll Patrick J. Tchou 2009 Mechanisms and Practical Implications Biomedical science has been driven in the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries by the promise to deliver lifesaving therapies against disease and to extend human life. Development of all branches of biomedical sciences, including cardiac electrophysiology, went through a periodic adherence to […]
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David R. Gross 2009 This new edition of Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research describes historical and recent advances in our understanding of the cardiovascular system from studies conducted in a variety of animal models. Since the last edition, we have witnessed an explosion in the use of both congenic and transgenic animals.
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Teruhisa Kazui • Shinichi Takamoto Editors 2009 Thoracic aortic surgery has recently made major advances, and, as a consequence, there have been significant improvements in its outcomes. Moreover, new technologies such as endovascular treatment and diagnostic imaging with 3D-CT, MRI, and US, as well as research on the fundamental mechanism of the genesis of aortic aneurysms, are making encouraging […]
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Edited by Sumaira Macdonald Gerry Stansby 2009 He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea (William Osler, 1849–1919). In the management of vascular disease, there has been an inexorable drive toward less invasive endovascular treatment options. This has substantially altered the attitudes of patients, clinicians, and health care providers and has influenced service provision for these patients.
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M. F. Reiser ∙ C. R. Becker ∙ K. Nikolaou G. Glazer (Eds.) 2009 Multi-detector row technology has become an established CT imaging modality worldwide. Nowadays, clinical applications such as multi-detector row CT angiography, and in particular cardiac CT, assume greater importance in daily routine. Furthermore, the scope of multi detector row CT applications has expanded and requires […]
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