Adel E. Berbari • Giuseppe Mancia (Eds.) 2010 Mechanisms, Risk and Treatment It has long been known that a close relationship exists between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which has led to the adoption of the terminology “cardiorenal syndrome”. In recent years, the relationship between CKD and CVD has been shown to be even closer […]

Daniel C. Sigg ● Paul A. Iaizzo Yong-Fu Xiao ● Bin He Editors 2010 Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. While significant progress has been made in treating some major subcategories of cardiac disease, such as arrhythmias and ischemic heart disease, significant unmet needs remain. This, in turn, implies a great need for […]

Dr. Francesco F. Faletra, Dr. Stefano de Castro Dr. Natesa G. Pandian,Dr. Itzhak Kronzon Dr. Hans-Joachim Nesser,Dr. Siew Yen Ho 2010 After almost three decades of research and clinical development, three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has recently become a valuable tool in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Initial attempts at 3D echocardiography were laborious with images assembled from multiple 2D images, […]

David Abraham • Clive Handler Michael Dashwood • Gerry Coghlan Editors 2012 Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment This is the third volume in the series of books on translational medicine gleaned from the annual vascular biology and clinical medicine workshop held at the Royal College of Physicians. The chapters are invited papers presented by internationally recognized basic science and […]

Cam Patterson  Monte S. Willis Editors 2012 The primary goal of this textbook is to provide an overview of cutting-edge and emerging topics in cardiology as seen by experts from diverse clinical and biomedical ackgrounds engaged in these fields of research.

Enrique Zudaire l Frank Cuttitta Editors 2012

Eric Zacharias, M.D. 2012 A Clinician’s Guide for Patient Care For what is likely the first time in the history of mankind, our health is more threatened by easy access to food—specifically, high calorie density and low nutrient density food—than by food scarcity. The fact that many individuals in our modern society, perhaps even the majority, over-eat unhealthy […]

George L. Bakris Editor 2012 Over the past decade, presence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events and death. The incidence of both CKD and heart failure is increasing worldwide, and the interaction focusing on the regulatory changes that occur in the physiology of the kidney as a function […]

Ellen A. Dornelas Editor 2012 In the early 1980s, as a psychology major in college, I got a part-time job as a medical assistant in a busy cardiology practice, doing electrocardiograms and preparing patients for exercise treadmill stress tests.

Klaus Groschner • Wolfgang F. Graier • Christoph Romanin Editors 2012 Emerging Signaling Concepts in Human (PATHO)Physiology Because recapitulation of the historic developments within a scientific field usually helps, or may even be required, for understanding current paradigms and concepts, it appears important to begin with a condensed historic overview characterizing a research area, which has gained an […]