Alexander Battler and Jonathan Leor 2006 Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine The human body has limited potential to rejuvenate injured organs and tissues. An old dream of scientists and physicians is to be able to rebuild “spare parts” to replace injured or diseased tissues—a notion that was once referred to as the field of science fiction. The new discipline […]
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Edited by Suresh I.S. Rattan and Moustapha Kassem 2006 During the last 40 years, biogerontology – the study of the biological basis of aging – has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research. Numerous universities, medical institutes and research centers throughout the world now offer full-fledged courses on the biology […]
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Edited by Nasimul Ahsan 2006 What prompted this book was a seeming imbalance, between advancements made in science and what appears to be known generally. We admit that only modest progress has been made in understanding many infectious diseases such as those caused by polyomavirus.
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Rüdiger von Kummer and Tobias Back (Eds.) 2006 Cerebrovascular diseases have an enormous and increasing impact on societies: they rank among the leading causes of death, are often associated with chronic handicap, and cause high costs for primary treatment, rehabilitation and chronic care. The advent of treatment options such as reperfusion therapies and, to a lesser degree, neuroprotective […]
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Masaaki Uno • Kuniaki Ogasawara Editors 2017 For Prevention of Stroke I am pleased to present a new textbook entitled Treatment of NOAC . Nonvalvular atrial fibrillation represents the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and predisposes patients to the development of atrial thrombi, which may embolize to the systemic circulation, particularly the brain.
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Jeffrey P. Greenfi eld • Caroline B. Long Editors 2017 Recognition and Management Within medicine, increasing subspecialization has created an almost impossible task; primary care providers are now asked to triage their patients and provide appropriate referrals within a dizzying array of diverse medical fields. Pediatric neurosurgery remains one of a number of highly specialized fields within which most […]
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Edited by T. Tsukahara, G. Esposito, H.-J. Steiger, G.J.E. Rinkel, L. Regli 2014 The European-Japanese Joint Conferences for Stroke Surgery were initiated in Zürich in 2001 by Prof. Y. Sakurai and Prof. Yonekawa, under the name of “The Swiss-Japanese Joint Conference.” The second meeting was also organized in Zürich two years later. The third meeting, under the name […]
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John Fernandes Jean-Marie Saudubray Georges van den Berghe John H. Walter (Editors) 2006 Diagnosis and Treatment Since the publication of the first edition sixteen years ago, Inborn Metabolic Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment has become a classic textbook, indispensable for those involved in the care of children and adults with inborn errors of metabolism, including pediatricians, biochemists, dieticians, neurologists, […]
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M. A. Khamashta (Ed.) 2006 Antiphospholipid Syndrome The studies and discussions presented in the second edition of the Hughes Syndrome text had their beginning with a 1983 British Medical Journal publication entitled “Thrombosis, abortion, cerebral disease and the lupus anticoagulant.” In the mid-20th-century, it was recognized that some patients with systemic lupus erythematosus had biological false positive serological tests for […]
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Mark G. Cowling (Ed.) 2007 Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy Vascular Interventional Radiology, or endovascular therapy as it is becoming increasingly known, continues to develop rapidly. As our patients survive longer because of advances in treatment in other areas, such as coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease is becoming an increasingly common problem. In addition, those requiring treatment are increasingly […]
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