Cardiovascular Medicine

In humans, hemodynamic stability is essential to maintain homeostasis. In order to achieve this, atrial, ventricular, and vascular properties, thei...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The almost exclusive cause of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), includ...

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is a relatively new treatment for heart failure which has come into prominence over the last decade as it p...

Pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension are health devastating diseases with considerable morbidity and mortality. Pul...

An aneurysm is a localised dilation of the wall of a blood vessel, usually caused by atherosclerosis and hypertension, or less frequently, by traum...

Up to one-third of American children have high cholesterol. Compared with their counterparts in many other countries, American children and adolesc...

Cardiovascular disease has evolved into an epidemic health concern. During the past decades, considerable effort has been made to develop novel and...

The essential components of the human cardiovascular system are the heart, blood, and blood vessels. It includes: pulmonary circulation, a loop t...

Percutaneous valve technology has received tremendous interest in the last few years from both clinicians and public as a direct result of advancem...

This book presents important research from around the world in the field of cardiovascular science. Particular emphasis is placed on circadian rhyt...

This book presents important research from around the world in the field of cardiovascular science. Particular emphasis is placed on chronomics, im...

Atrial fibrillation is rapidly assuming a predominant role in current vascular medicine. Parallel to its escalating prevalence, due mainly to the g...

Hypertension, also referred to as high blood pressure, is a disease afflicting almost 1 billion people world-wide. Some 70 million adults in the Un...

Since the first use of basic life support (BLS) and defibrillation in the pre-hospital setting in Belfast in 1966, few would argue that there have ...

Early detection of sub-clinical autonomic dysfunction is of vital importance in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) for the prevention of subseque...