Anita Sadeghpour • Majid Kyavar Azin Alizadehasl Editors 2014 The past half century had witnessed remarkable improvement in the survivalof patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). A recent estimate shows that, for the first time in history, there are more adults living with CHD than children. That in combination with the current low surgical mortality […]

Thomas Franz Editor 2014 Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Volume 15 According to the World Health Organisation, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death worldwide—with a substantial increase of mortalities expected over the next decades in conjunction with epidemics of diabetes and obesity. CVD pathologies range from arteriosclerosis affecting arteries in […]

Gary D. Lopaschuk • Naranjan S. Dhalla Editors 2014 The heart has a very high energy demand but very little energy reserves. As a result, the heart has to continually produce a large amount of ATP necessary to sustain contractile function. The heart utilizes free fatty acids mainly and carbohydrates to some extent as substrates […]

Ambrose S. Kibos • Bradley P. Knight Vidal Essebag • Steven B. Fishberger Mark Slevin • Ion C. T¸ intoiu Editors 2014 From Basic Mechanism to State-of-the-Art Management The past 50 years have witnessed the growth and evolution of clinical electrophysiology from a field whose initial goals were the understanding of arrhythmia mechanisms to one […]

Michel E. Safar • Michael F. O’Rourke Edward D. Frohlich Editors 2014 Three colleagues whose background in medicine arose from their similar interests in cardiovascular research, although they never worked at the same institution, conceived the concept of this textbook. Further, even more unique, they lived throughout their professional careers in three disparate continents and […]

Gheorghe-Andrei Dan Antoni Bayés de Luna John Camm Editors Juan Carlos Kaski Series Editor 2014 Atrial Fibrillation (AF) has a long history, but in many regards it remains a challenging terra incognita . In the oldest medical text written earlier than 400 B.C. , the Chinese “Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon” (or better Huang Di Nei […]

Florin Mihail Filipoiu 2014 To write a book utilizing the extraordinary sources of information, which so many people have access to, seems to have over-simplified our field. Perhaps, this is the way it should be. However, it is my sincere belief that when one purchases a book, one must choose wisely as it will influence […]

Marc Thiriet 2014 Living organisms react to environmental changes and maintain the stability of the internal medium by regulation systems (homeostasis introduced by C. Bernard). In addition, humans adapt the homeostasis level (heterostasis) to the environment (e.g., sea level vs. mountain and desert vs. icy region). Breathing and blood circulation are anatomically and functionally coupled […]