Shankar Sridharan · Gemma Price Oliver Tann · Marina Hughes · Vivek Muthurangu Andrew M. Taylor 2010 The last 10 years has seen explosive expansion of the number of centres performing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. The majority of this expansion has been in the field of adult ischaemic imaging, but congenital heart disease remains one of […]
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C. A. Yankah Y. Weng R. Hetzer (Eds.) 2010 The Biological Solution The surgical results of bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement in the 1960s and 1970s were not very satisfactory. The search for the ideal substitute for the diseased aortic valve led Donald Ross to develop the concept of the aortic allograft in 1962 and the pulmonary autograft in 1967 […]
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David Abraham, Clive Handler, Michael Dashwood and Gerry Coghlan (Eds.) 2010 Understanding the many complex cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying human vascular diseases is essential in improving the treatment of this important and wide-ranging group of diseases that affect a large proportion of the world population. This book is based on lectures presented at an International Vascular Biology Workshop […]
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Edited by Gregory A. Brent 2010 Thyroid function tests are utilized by essentially all medical practitioners, across every clinical setting, in patients from newborns to the elderly. They are the most frequently measured endocrine tests. The sensitive thyrotropin (TSH) assay reflects thyroid hormone feedback to the pituitary, and is diagnostic of both thyroid hormone excess as well as deficiency.
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Ronald J. Prineas Richard S. Crow Zhu-Ming Zhang 2010 The manual is suitable for training electrocardiographers and technicians and can be accompanied by sets of training ECGs already coded by trainers. It is our expectation that the manual will serve as a reference, guide, and training source for those conducting studies that require objective evidence of cardiac disease, both prevalent and […]
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Walmor C. DeMello · Edward D. Frohlich Editors 2010 Experimental and clinical evidence supports the view that the activation of the renin angiotensin aldosterone system is involved in cardiovascular pathology including hypertension, heart failure, myocardial ischemia, and atherosclerosis.
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Leonid Poretsky Editor 2010 Seven years have elapsed since the first edition of the Principles of Diabetes Mellitus appeared. It is sobering to realize how much new important information on the subject of this textbook has been developed during this relatively short period of time.
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Jeffrey J. Goldberger • Jason Ng (Eds.) 2010 Signal processing is the means and methodology of handling, manipulating, and converting signals for the purposes of recording, analysis, transmission, and storage. Signals, particularly in the context of the biomedical field, are recorded for the presentation and often the quantification of some physical phenomena for the purposes of directly or […]
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Jozef Rovenský · Burkhard F. Leeb Howard Bird ·Viera Štvrtinová · Richard Imrich Editors 2010 In the present monograph, we offer current insights into polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arthritis. Both diseases are typical for advanced age, and their incidences increase with aging. Both diseases are a center point of interest not only for rheumatologists, gerontologists, ophthalmologists or […]
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Srinivasa T. Reddy Editor 2010 Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Volume 660 The 3rd International Conference on Paraoxonases (ICP) was a great success. More than 100 basic and clinical researchers working on the paraoxonase (PON) family of proteins (PON1, PON2, and PON3) gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, located in beautiful, sunny Southern California, […]
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