Category: Cardiology

Practical Guide to Neurovascular Emergencies

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Guillaume Saliou • Marie Théaudin Claire Join-Lambert Vincent Raphaëlle Souillard-Scemama 2014 A group of four young neuroradiologists and neurologists (Guillaume Saliou, Marie Théaudin, Claire Join-Lambert and Raphaëlle Souillard-Scemama) has rightly placed neuroimaging at the very heart of this book on neurovascular emergencies, as no evidence-based emergency treatment is available for subjects with sudden onset of hemiplegia or aphasia without […]

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Neurosonological Evaluation of Cerebral Venous Outflow

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Neurosonological Evaluation of Cerebral Venous Outflow-1

Giovanni Malferrari Marialuisa Zedde Patrizio Prati 2014 An Ultrasound Atlas Although the physiological mechanisms associated with cerebral-venous outflow are poorly understood, abnormalities of the venous system have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders, including multiple sclerosis. This has raised intriguing questions about how to best evaluate the involvement of the venous system in those disorders. In 2009, it […]

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CT Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability

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CT Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability-1

U. Joseph Schoepf • Fabian Bamberg Gorka Bastarrika • Balazs Ruzsics Rozemarijn Vliegenthart Editors 2014 Beyond Structure and Function We are embarking on yet another exciting journey in our exploration of the determinants of the human body. Much has happened in the last decade that has decisively enhanced our abilities to noninvasively assess health and disease of […]

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Management of Pericardial Disease

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Management of Pericardial Disease-1

Eyal Herzog Editor 2014 Over the past 20 years, I have been teaching cardiology to physicians and other health care professionals. When I ask my trainees to provide me with a disease that they are not comfortable managing, they almost always have the same reply: pericardial disease. The realization of this gap in training has motivated me to create […]

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Clinical Echocardiography and Other Imaging Techniques in Cardiomyopathies

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Clinical Echocardiography and Other Imaging Techniques in Cardiomyopathies-1

Bruno Pinamonti • Gianfranco Sinagra Editors 2014 This book was designed by the Editors as a thorough up-to-date review of the role of imaging in cardiomyopathies, based on the existing literature and on the authors’ working experience in the tertiary referral center on cardiomyopathies of the University Hospital of Trieste, Italy. Particular attention was given to the clinical significance […]

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Endocrinology and Diabetes

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Endocrinology and Diabetes-1

Francisco Bandeira • Hossein Gharib Airton Golbert • Luiz Griz Manuel Faria Editors 2014 A Problem-Oriented Approach Endocrinology is a fast-growing field, and endocrine literature is huge. With an ever-increasing body of data that includes original studies, therapeutic trials, new tests, reports on new treatments, and guidelines for management, most clinicians are overwhelmed, if not confused, with new […]

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Embolization

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Pascal Chabrot • Louis Boyer Editors 2014 The development of the embolization techniques, especially in oncology, led us to propose this practical handy book as a teaching aid for the training of young interventional radiologists which is now promoted in France as in the rest of Europe. The innovations in catheterization techniques and embolization agents have considerably contributed to the […]

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Duplex Ultrasound of Superficial Leg Veins

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Duplex Ultrasound of Superficial Leg Veins-1

Erika Mendoza • Christopher R. Lattimer Nick Morrison Editors 2014 This book was the original idea of Erika Mendoza when it was first published in Germany in 2006 with the help of many leading experts in the discipline of chronic venous disease. It was intended as a practical everyday guide for ultrasound practitioners required to assess and diagnose […]

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Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction

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Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction-1

Filippo Crea • Gaetano A. Lanza Paolo G. Camici 2014 Obstructive disease of the epicardial coronary arteries has been accepted as the cause of angina pectoris for more than two centuries, and sudden thrombotic occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery has been well established as the cause of acute myocardial infarction for more than one hundred years. Therefore, […]

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Cardio-Thoracic, Vascular, Renal and Transplant Surgery

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Cardio-Thoracic, Vascular, Renal and Transplant Surgery-1

Brendon J. Coventry Editor 2014 Over the last decade or so we have witnessed a rapid change in the consumer demand for information by patients preparing for a surgical procedure. This is fuelled by multiple factors including the ‘internet revolution’, altered public consumer attitudes, professional patient advocacy, freedom of information laws, insurance issues, risk management, and medicolegal claims made […]

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