Adel E. Berbari • Giuseppe Mancia Editors 2012 Hypertension, i.e. the single major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide, has been addressed by a large number of books and monographs which have dealt with this topic in all its multifold epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.

Marc Thiriet 2012 Volume 3 of the book series Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems aims at presenting major sets of signaling receptors mainly located at the plasma membrane, 1 in a modeling framework rather than biological perspective.

Paolo Salvi 2012 I am delighted to introduce Paolo Salvi’s volume on Pulse Waves, brilliantly summarizing the haemodynamics of hypertension and its implications for treatment. This is indeed a happy occasion for considering once more the variable approaches by which scientific knowledge advances, that is by the elaboration of complex models, to be subsequently simplified just to acknowledge that […]

David Sedmera ● Tobias Wang Editors 2012 Cardiovascular physiology has always been a central theme in both medicine and biological sciences. While it has long been established that the fundamental mechanisms of cardiovascular function apply to all animals, it is also becoming clear that most animals, i.e., both invertebrates and vertebrates, share the same genetic programming for the development […]

Jonathon W. Homeister ● Monte S. Willis Editors 2012 The primary goal of this textbook is to provide an overview of cutting-edge and emerging topics in translational vascular medicine as seen by experts from diverse clinical and biomedical research backgrounds. The premise is to highlight the areas of investigation that are currently (or will be) the topics of […]

Lei Xi • Tatiana V. Serebrovskaya Editors 2012 It might be hard to find a better example for the duality in life science than the effects of intermittent hypoxia on living organisms including human bodies. As the above-quoted wisdom of the controversial philosopher and astronomer Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), this universe and its miniature form – our life – […]

Michael S. Sagiv 2012 This book represents an extended and thoroughly revised literature on the Exercise Cardiopulmonary Function in Cardiac Patients and Healthy Subjects. The key idea, which enables to deal with a wide range of complex cardiac problems in easy-to-check conditions and which also provides generally good solutions, is based on the fact that a large part of […]

Adam Gacek • Witold Pedrycz Editors 2012 ECG signals are one among the most important sources of diagnostic information. There has been a great deal of progress in the area of signal processing, classification, and interpretation in terms of the underlying signal acquisition technology itself as well as a variety of algorithmic and system developments supported by advanced information […]

Zeev Vlodaver ● Robert F. Wilson ● Daniel J. Garry Editors 2012 Clinical, Pathological, Imaging, and Molecular Profiles This book will present a comprehensive picture of ischemic heart disease to those who, either as practitioners, students or investigators, deal with the varied facets of this complex subject. It has meaning to the fields of clinical cardiology, […]