Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
Eduard Shantsila • Gregory YH Lip 2016 A Concise Guide
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Voltage Gated Sodium Channels
Peter C. Ruben Editor 2014 Just over 60 years ago, Hodgkin and Huxley first proposed the ionic basis of the action potential in neurons. Their insightful—and foresighted—work, based on experiments performed in squid giant axons, laid the groundwork for a new research field: ion channel biophysics. The elegance and importance of their work earned them […]
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Shunei Kyo Editor 2014 At the end of the nineteenth century, the English surgeon Stephen Paget surmised: “Surgery of the heart has probably reached the limits set by nature; no new methods and no new discovery can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart,” expressing how difficult heart surgery was. Doctors […]
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Alessandro Giamberti • Massimo Chessa Editors 2014 It is my great delight and distinct honor to write the foreword to The Tricuspid Valve in Congenital Heart Disease . Alessandro Giamberti and Massimo Chessa are to be congratulated for their prescience in editing this outstanding contribution. In doing so, they have assembled a pantheon of experts […]
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Sean P. Gaine • Robert Naeije Andrew John Peacock Editors 2014 The right heart has, in the past, been neglected by both pulmonary physicians and cardiologists. Pulmonary physicians saw it as part of the heart and therefore not of interest to them, whereas cardiologists viewed it as merely a conduit of blood to the lungs […]
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Branko Furst 2014 An Integrative Model The content of this book, long in coming, was originally intended as a journal article. It became apparent, in due course, that the large amount of accumulated evidence gathered in support of the thesis could only be condensed at the cost of its weakening; hence, the material was arranged […]
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Alan Davies • Alwyn Scott 2014 The Basics The ECG is one of the most widely available diagnostic tests used in clinical practice today. Since the first use of the ECG there has been a wealth of books available on the subject, aimed at all sorts of different experience levels and healthcare practitioners. With such […]
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Antonino Gullo • Giuseppe Ristagno Editors 2014 Translational Research, Clinical Evidence, Education, Guidelines Three years have passed since the last guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care and the new one is underway and expected to be released during 2015. Thus, this volume has the purpose to assemble updates on Resuscitation science from international […]
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Lilach O. Lerman • Stephen C. Textor Editors 2014 This is an exciting time for those working in the field of kidney vascular injury and repair. Despite, or perhaps partly because of, major advances in imaging diagnosis and therapy, large vessel occlusive disease of the renal arteries continues to pose major clinical challenges and can […]
Continue reading →Pharmacological Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Pablo Avanzas • Peter Clemmensen Editors 2014 Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) require rapid intervention with pharmacologic therapies to treat and prevent coronary thromboembolism, and is essential to prepare the patient for revascularization procedures, especially percutaneous coronary intervention. The aims of treatment are to preserve patency of the coronary artery, augment blood flow through stenotic lesions, […]
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