Cardiovascular Medicine

This book discusses the different aspects of mitral regurgitation as well as diagnostic and imaging studies to evaluate the patients at risk. Treat...

This book highlights the current importance of aortic aneurysms, their clinical presentations and methods of management. The book focuses on differ...

The new edition of Practice of Clinical Echocardiography provides expert guidance on interpreting echocardiographic images and Doppler flow data. D...

Trusted by generations of cardiologists for the latest, most reliable guidance in the field, Braunwald''s Heart Disease, 11th Edition, remains your...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and for decades conventional health authorities have pushed that the culprits are fat and ch...

Providing a solid foundation in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology and rehabilitation, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence...

Unique in the field, Surgical Implantation of Cardiac Rhythm Devices provides complete, easy-to-follow guidance for safe, effective surgical implan...

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in almost 40% of patients suffering from end stage renal disease (ESRD). Cardiomyopathy and ...

Atherosclerosis is a chronic disease affecting the entire arterial tree, representing an inflammatory response in the vessels. The pathogenesis of ...

Although COPD is a major disease world-wide, there is a perplexing current uncertainty about the nature of this disease. COPD is characterised at o...

Myocardial ischemia results from a reduction in coronary blood flow to the working myocardium, which leads to a corresponding decrease in oxygen de...

Pulmonary hypertension is a complex disease that causes significant morbidity and mortality and is clinically characterised by an increase in pulmo...

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) refers to a group of symptoms attributed to obstruction of the coronary arteries with the most common symptom present...

Based upon the hypothesis that prognosis in childhood heart failure depends on autonomic dysfunction, the author introduced a new heart failure mod...

Postgraduate Vascular Surgery is your concise pocket guide to the FRCS and MRCS exams. Covering the full range of surgical interventions, including...

Nd:YAG laser has recently been widely used for the various vascular applications. This book presents basic vascular and tissue interactions in the ...

The benefits of Clopidogrel on the treatment of acute coronary syndromes are well established. However, not all patients respond in the same way to...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a relatively new pathological concept in cardiovascular disease, originally described in the Japanese population a...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in cardiovascular research. Topics covered include the morphology and implications of atria...

Cardiac tamponade is a life threatening pericardial disease which is characterized by an obstruction of inflow of blood to the ventricles leading t...

The spectrum of sleep-disordered breathing ranges from primary snoring at one end to obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea at the other e...

Cardiovascular disease refers to the class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels. While the term technically refers to any disease th...

Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery is a relatively new field which cardiac surgeons are increasingly embracing, and patients and cardiologists...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In approximately half of the patients with newly diagnosed C...

This is a concise summary of information on the incidence, diagnosis, classification and non-surgical treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD)....

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive, fatal syndrome characterised by increased vascular resistance that leads to right-ventricul...

This book highlights recent advances in beta blockers research. Beta blockers have been used for the treatment of several clinical conditions and i...

In this book, the authors have gathered and present topical research in the study of the molecular determinants, impact of environmental factors an...