Marc Dewey 2011 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.
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Robert S. Bonser • Domenico Pagano Axel Haverich (Editors) 2011 Volume 1 We welcome the reader to the Monographs in Cardiac Surgery series. These monographs have the objective to fully summarize the information available to date regarding particular facets of cardiac surgery – indications, operative techniques, pre-operative care, post-operative outcomes – so that the reader can have a […]
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Edited by Morteza Naghavi 2011 In the past century, preventive cardiology has been in a defensive mode. Since James Herrick first reported Clinical Features of Sudden Obstruction of the Coronary Artery Disease in JAMA 1912, and Paul Dudley White wrote the textbook of Heart Disease in 1930 and helped create cardiac care units, cardiovascular medicine for the most […]
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Yves-Gérard Illouz • Aris Sterodimas Editors 2011 In the last decades, investments in basic research have yielded extensive knowledge about the many and complex processes involved in the development of an organism. Since human pluripotent stem cells were first isolated, research on stem cells has received much public attention, both because of its extraordinary promise […]
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Edmo Atique Gabriel, Tomas A. Salerno Editors 2010 Over the past fifty years, advanced techniques and strategies have arisen in the field of myocardial protection. Meticulous trials, focusing on pulmonary protection during heart surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), have been missing.
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Thomas J. Fogarty · Rodney A. White Editors 2010 It has been nearly 50 years since the original description of balloon thrombectomy catheters as the initial endovascular intervention to treat thromboembolic vascular occlusion disease. The initial description of this innovative technology by Dr. Thomas Fogarty was viewed with skepticism and rejected by many prestigious journals.
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Corrado Tamburino • Gian Paolo Ussia 2010 A Practical Guide for the Interventional Cardiologist 2010 Transcatheter therapy of cardiac valve diseases is a rediscovery by interventional cardiologists. Treating cardiac valve diseases with alternative techniques to cardiac surgery using prosthetic devices has rekindled interest in the field of hemo-dynamics, which has been neglected in recent years.
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R. Ribes · P. Kuschnir · A. Luna J. C. Vilanova · J. M. Jimenez-Hoyuela (Eds.) 2010 After the publication of Learning Diagnostic Imaging, which was an introductory teaching file to the ten radiological subspecialties included in the American Boards of Radiology, we began to write a series of teaching files on each radiological subspecialty.
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Jan Dominik Pavel Zacek 2010 Th e four heart valves reside in the center of the heart. Th is indicates their crucial role in cardiac performance. Faultless function of the valves is a prerequisite for unidirectional forward movement of the blood, and such function is necessary to support the efforts of the cardiac atria and ventricles.
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Ricardo Muñoz ● Victor O. Morell Eduardo M. da Cruz ● Carol G. Vetterly Editors 2010 Basic Medical and Surgical Concepts Pediatric cardiac intensive care patients pose special challenges to those practitioners caring for them. The primary purpose of this textbook is to provide the health care practitioner with an overview of both the medical and surgical facets […]
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