Paolo Pavone • Massimo Fioranelli • David A. Dowe 2009 Coronary CT angiography (CTA) is rapidly changing the patient-care algorithms used to detect coronary artery disease, as well as the approach we take in risk-factor assessment and in the triage of patients. The rapid adoption of coronary CTA into clinical practice has been fueled by significant yearly advances in […]
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Marc Dewey 2009 Computed tomography has been going through a dramatic evolution of technology in the past years. The increased spatial and temporal resolution directly translate into improved image quality and more versatile applications. Indeed, entirely new areas of clinical application have emerged, one of the most prominent being the recent advent of cardiac computed tomography.
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Andrew N. Redington Glen S. Van Arsdell Robert H. Anderson Editors 2009 Ten years ago it was fashionable, and largely correct, to say that the right heart had been ignored in terms of its functional contribution to the circulation in acquired and congenital heart disease. While it remains a popular characterization, our understanding of right heart hemodynamics, […]
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Christian Seiler 2009 The sober explanation for this book is a call by the Springer-Verlag, London, to edit a publication on ‘The functional relevance of the collateral circulation’ of the heart. Alternatively, it could be ‘sold’ as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of […]
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Neil R Poulter 2009 Over the last 10–20 years, there has been an increasing appreciation of the need to manage individual risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the context of overall cv risk rather than on the basis of the absolute level of any given risk factor.
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Edited by Vivian A. Fonseca 2009 Shared Pathways and Clinical Crossroads In the last two to three decades, cardiovascular disease and diabetes have emerged as a major public health problem. This is partly related to the epidemic of obesity, which plays a major role in the pathogenesis of both diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In addition, several other hormones […]
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Giuseppe Barbaro • Franck Boccara (Eds) 2009 Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has changed the face of HIV infection and AIDS into a treatable, chronic illness in resource-rich areas of the world. The hope is that we will overcome availability and distribution issues in resource-poor settings so the same is true in these regions of the world in the future.
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Wolfgang Krüger and Andrew Ludman 2009 Heart failure is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Europe and the United States of America. The incidence within the European population is estimated to range between 0.4 to 2.0%, and in the USA approximately one million people per year are admitted to hospital suffering from heart failure.
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Editors George Geroulakos, Bauer Sumpio 2011 The third edition updated most chapters that were focusing on the endovascular management of arterial and venous disease providing the reader with practical and updated, wellreferenced information on the full spectrum of options for the management of vascular disease.
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Wilhelm Schäberle 2011 A Therapy-Oriented Textbook and Atlas The longer and the more intensively one has been working with medical imaging, the more questions of a broader, more general kind one is confronted with: How well does the image represent the truth? Can our interpretation of the imaging findings explain the patient’s disease? Which imaging appearances mean that […]
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