Alicia J. Jenkins • Peter P. Toth Timothy J. Lyons Editors 2014 Diabetes mellitus (DM) is becoming increasingly epidemic globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the prevalence of DM varies between 8 and 10 % in all regions of the globe. Millions of new cases are diagnosed every year, and a substantial percentage of people with […]
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Stephen J. Nicholls • Tim Crowe Editors 2014 For more than 50 years, we have used coronary angiography to diagnose and quantify the extent of obstructive disease due to atherosclerosis. This has provided an important tool for the cardiologist in the evaluation and management of the patient with coronary artery disease. In more recent years, major technological advances in […]
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Yee Guan Yap, A John Camm 2014
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Belma Turan • Naranjan S. Dhalla Editors 2014 Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms Diabetes has long been recognized as a disease of high blood sugar, and there has been a continuous search for the exact reason for its development. In the middle of the nineteenth century, autopsies of patients with diabetes mellitus showed damaged pancreases. The first evidence for […]
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Wolfgang Krüger • Andrew James Ludman 2014
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Changqing Gao Editor 2014 Since robotic technology was introduced into the cardiac surgical fi eld in 1998, the dream of cardiac surgeons to perform cardiac procedures in the closed chest has come true. With an outlook into the future, the PLA General Hospital took the lead to install the first da Vinci S Surgical System in China in […]
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Giovanni Landoni • Laura Ruggeri Alberto Zangrillo Editors 2014 Perioperative morbidity and mortality represent a public health problem. Mortality alone is over 4 % in western countries, with striking differences among centers in the same countries and among different countries. There is initial growing awareness that drugs, techniques and strategies used in the perioperative period may influence clinical relevant […]
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Ali Dabbagh • Fardad Esmailian • Sary F. Aranki Editors 2014 Cardiac surgery is a process, not an event. Due to the prevalence of cardiac diseases and conditions within society, cardiac surgeries now rank among the most common of all surgical procedures. But they are also the most challenging and complicated, all of which imposes a burden of […]
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Bodh I. Jugdutt Editor 2014 Mechanisms and Management The concept for this book on aging and heart failure (HF) was born in the 1980s with the publication of the book entitled The Aging Heart: Its Function and Responses to Stress , edited by Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD. It was later fueled along in the early 1990s by […]
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Annapoorna Kini • Samin Sharma Jagat Narula Editors 2014 Since the introduction of balloon angioplasty by Andreas Gruentzig in 1977, interventional cardiology has immensely proliferated in the last 37 years. Various new interventional devices and modifications of existing interventional techniques have mimproved the safety and long-term benefits of the interventional procedures. From the Cardiovascular Catheterization Lab of Mount […]
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