W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr. Editor 2014 The Giants! – Cardiac surgeons and their patients have enjoyed meteoric advancements over the last 60 years. In the early 1950s, pioneers Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley showed that thoracic aneurysms could be treated successfully by excision and grafting with either a homograft or a textile tube. Simultaneously, John Gibbon and C. […]
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Edmo Atique Gabriel • Sthefano Atique Gabriel Editors 2013 The inflammatory response is of vital importance in any kind of cardiovascular procedure. However, for several years, this concept has been underestimated and overlooked worldwide. This textbook is intended to serve as a useful tool to provide information on the in fl ammatory response in cardiovascular surgery. The scope of […]
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Vasken Dilsizian • Jagat Narula Editors 2013 Fourth Edition Over the past three decades, nuclear cardiology has evolved from a research tool into a wellestablished clinical discipline. Approximately nine million nuclear cardiology procedures are performed annually in the United States. The fi eld has excelled in the noninvasive evaluation and quanti fi cation of myocardial perfusion, function, metabolism, […]
Continue reading →Clive Rosendorff Editor 2013 This third edition reflects the very rapid advances that have been made in our understanding and management of cardiovascular disease since the first (2001) and second (2005) editions. All of the chapters from the second edition have been extensively reviewed and rewritten. There are new chapters on Cardiovascular Disease in Women, […]
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Jozef Bartunek • Marc Vanderheyden Editors 2013 The “Dirk Verheyden-foundation” wishes to add the following considerations and refl exions to this scientifi c foreword. Young people suffering a heart failure are fi ghting so hard against this disease. Some win, some lose the fi ght. It would be a shame if we, healthy people, […]
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Marc Thiriet 2013 Modeling relies on access to data accumulated on any target object (configuration, structure, controlled functioning, fate under various types of stimuli, reaction to stresses that can be experienced, etc.). Knowledge is associated with a set of conditions: truth, belief justification, reliability, and stability. Understanding does not necessarily bring certitude before validation, […]
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Karl A. Illig • Robert W. Thompson Julie Ann Freischlag • Dean M. Donahue Sheldon E. Jordan • Peter I. Edgelow Editors 2013 After a century of contributions to the Medical Literature, new ideas about neurovascular compression syndromes had apparently run aground. By the 1970s there was little of consequence in the contemporary literature, no […]
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Ganga Karunamuni Editor 2013 The heart is invested with a complex, intertwining network of blood and lymphatic vessels which, respectively, provide the cardiac tissue with oxygen and nutrients and eliminate excess fl uid from the interstitium. The coronary blood vessels have been the focus of much investigation in the past few decades. On the […]
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Francine Foss Editor 2013 The mature T- and NK-cell lymphomas are rare, comprising approximately 10 % of all malignant lymphomas. The incidence of T-cell lymphoma is variable around the world, with a higher incidence compared to B-cell lymphomas in the Asian basin. While the overall incidence of B-cell lymphomas has begun to decline in the […]
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Abdeslem El Idrissi ● William J. L’Amoreaux Editors 2013 Volume 2: Nutrition and Metabolism, Protective Role, and Role in Reproduction, Development, and Differentiation The organizing committee wishes to thank all attendees of the 18th International Taurine Meeting that took place in Marrakesh, Morocco, from April 7th to 13th. This year, the conference highlighted the “ Mystique […]
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