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Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Cardiovascular medicine
Landmark Papers in Cardiovascular Medicine provides a thorough and
wide-ranging analysis of core examples of novel research, clinical
trials and seminal papers published in the medical literature that
have paved the way for breakthroughs in the management of the
entire spectrum of cardiovascular disease. These papers may have
produced positive, negative or equivocal findings but are regarded
by the experts as having either stimulated a paradigm shift in
therapeutic strategy or been the catalyst for new and improved
methods of research, diagnosis or drug development. Our aim is to
provide both a benchmark and inspiration for future work in the
field of cardiovascular medicine and also to give the reader an
insight into the mechanics and infrastructure of how high-quality
evidence-based medicine has been produced. Each trial summary is
punctuated by sections on 'strengths and limitations', 'impact on
the field', 'learning points' and 'further reading' suggestions
that allow for a completely holistic analysis of the data. The
experts also give their views on what research is currently
underway, their hopes for the future and what advances they predict
will occur in each subspecialty field of cardiovascular medicine,
making this book essential reading for all those individuals with
an interest in the field.
This book provides an up-to-date review of the fundamentals of
lipid metabolism and its role in cardiovascular diseases. Focusing
on lipid transfer proteins in the circulation and cells, the role
of important lipid transporters, the effect of recently discovered
lipid binding proteins, and the link between lipid metabolism
disorders and cardiovascular diseases, it covers phospholipid
transfer protein, cholesteryl ester transfer protein,
lipopolysaccharide binding protein, microsomal triglyceride
transfer protein, ABC binding cassette members, and more. The book
offers graduate students and researchers a coherent overview of
lipid transfer and transport, as well as the limitations of current
research in the field, and promotes further studies on
cardiovascular diseases, as well as pharmaceutical research on drug
discovery based on lipid transfer, transport, and binding.
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 fluid from
the interstitium. The coronary blood vessels have been the focus of
much investigation in the past few decades. On the other hand, the
literature regarding the cardiac lymphatic vessels remains sparse,
despite their important role in maintaining normal heart function.
With this in mind, a better understanding of the cardiac lymphatic
network and its ability to regulate fluid homeostasis within the
heart could give us insight into developing therapies for the
alleviation of several cardiac pathological conditions.
Inquiry, Treatment Principles and Plans in Integrative
Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine, volume five in the Integrative
Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series, provides the benefits of
using the intake form, patient narratives and proper inquiry based
on Chinese and Western medicine methods within the clinical setting
to establish reliable treatment plans for cardiovascular patients.
This reference is organized systematically into three sections
covering questionnaires and testimony from patients, inquiry and
physical examination techniques that are useful for examining
cardiac patients, and specific cardiovascular symptoms in the new
and returning patient, including definition of the symptom and
clinical significance from Chinese and Western perspectives and
treatment principles. This important reference will aid
cardiovascular researchers in the study of integrative Chinese and
Western medicine with its clear, structured base to guide clinical
practice and encourage collaboration between Chinese and Western
medicine practitioners.
This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, guest edited by
Dr. Binita Shah, will cover the latest updated in Transradial
Angiography and Intervention. This issue is one of four selected
each year by the series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew Price. Topics
discussed in this issue will include: Accessing the Wrist, Coronary
Cannulation, Optimizing Transradial Access, The Value of
Transradial: Healthcare Economics and Patient Satisfaction,
Vascular Complications of the Wrist: Prevention and Management,
#RadialFirst in CHiP and Cardiogenic Shock, Radial versus Femoral
Access in Acute Coronary Syndrome, Accessing the Arm for Peripheral
Interventions, Using the Arm for Structural Interventions, and the
Neuro Radialist.
Perspectives of Ayurveda in Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese
Medicine for Patient Compliance, volume four in the Integrative
Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series, provides a systematic
perspective of therapeutic priority by examining the homeostasis of
the body, mind and spirit through Ayurveda philosophies and
universal attributes, including five key elements. Holism, patient
compliance and ethics in medicine are discussed, as are
responsibility, awareness and guidance for compliance in cardiac
patients. Finally, strategies of compliant patients outline and
compare Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for dietary laws and
recovery techniques, utilizing both systems for personal benefit
and what compliance means and looks like in clinical settings. This
important reference will aid cardiovascular researchers in the
study of integrative Chinese and Western medicine, while also
providing a clear, structured base to guide clinical practice and
encourage collaboration between practitioners.
Medical Empathy, Pharmacological Systems, and Treatment Strategies
in Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine, volume two in the
Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series, presents
sections on holism and humanity in medicine, considering the
patient, medical empathy in prescribing, modifying and weaning, an
overview of pharmacologic systems, an overview of pharmacology
sciences and the cardiovascular drug classes and types as revealed
from perspectives of Chinese and Western medicine, including
descriptions of pharmaceutical drugs from China and the United
States, with current pictures and inpatient directions. Finally,
principles and treatments according to disease stages for each
cardiovascular disease within the scope of integrative medicine is
outlined. This important reference will aid cardiovascular
researchers in the study of integrative Chinese and Western
medicine and provide a clear, structured base to guide clinical
practice and encourage collaboration between Chinese and Western
medicine practitioners
This collection of papers represents an edited version of the
Proceedings of the 9th European Symposium on Metabolism which was
held at the University of Padua (Italy) from October 12-14, 2006.
As did the Symposium itself, this work unites under a single cover
topics dealing with four important metabolic alterations: diabetes,
obesity, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Of vital interest to the
scientific community because of their cost in human life and
medical expenditure, the latest edition of this Symposium received
much attention from investigators in these fields. The 2006 edition
focusses on the most recent epidemiologic findings on the role of
oxidative stress and of endothelial dysfunction on the development
of atherosclerosis. Other topics of particular interest are:
abdominal obesity, pro-inflammatory adipokines and atherogenesis;
the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular global risk; coronary and
cerebrovascuclar disease in diabetes and in the metabolic syndrome.
Finally, the management, prevention and treatment of the metabolic
syndrome and its cardiovascular complications are examined in the
light of several recent clinical trials in these fields. This
volume will certainly be of interest to all those practitioners and
specialists who are looking for a broad, though specific overview
on several aspects of insulin resistance as a possible pathogenetic
mechanism and a guide to preventing and treating the metabolic
syndrome and its cardiovascular complications in their patients.
MORBID OBESITY: WILL YOU ALLOW IT TO KILL YOU?
Following the style of his previous books, Sex and the Cardiac
Patient and AnsweringYour Questions About Heart Disease and Sex,
informative, educational, entertaining, andbold, Dr. Eduardo
Chapunoff takes us this time into the complex world of the
morbidlyobese.
This work describes how and why the cardiovascular and other
systems become affectedby excessive weights. His own simple,
schematic illustrations will help you to understandhow morbid
obesity leads to heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, sleep
apnea, and manyother conditions, including sudden death.
Major treatment decisions are facilitated by Dr. Chapunoff's
down-to-earth explanations.Also addressed here is the unfairness
and ineffectiveness of some insurance corporations incovering the
costs of weight-loss surgery. For many of those who read this book
-patients aswell as health care practitioners and undergraduates-
the concepts and the understandingof what morbid obesity is all
about will never be the same.
This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, Guest Edited by Drs. George L.
Bakris and Ragavendra R. Baliga, will focus on Hypertensive Heart
Disease. Areas covered include Epidemiology and Natural History,
Pathophysiology and Natural History, Special Populations, and
Prognostic Markers and Management. Topics include, but are not
limited to, Progression of Hypertensive Heart Disease, Diagnosis
and Prevention of Hypertensive of Heart Failure, Evolution from
Hypertension to Heart Failure, Changes in Kidney Function in Heart
Failure, Implication of Acute Kidney Injury in heart failure,
Myocardial fibrosis in hypertensive patients with heart failure,
Hypertensive Heart Failure in the Very Old, Hypertension in the
Cardio-Oncology Clinic, Hypertension after Cardiac Transplantation,
Hypertensive Heart Failure in Women, Hypertensive Heart Failure in
Obesity and Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Hypertensive Heart Failure in
African Americans, Reverse J-curve relationship between
on-treatment blood pressure and mortality in patients with heart
failure, Hypertension and Heart Failure with Ejection Fraction,
Hypertension and Arrhythmias, Hypertension Treatment in Diabetes:
Focus on Heart Failure Prevention, and Management of Acute
Hypertensive Heart Failure.
Coronary Calcium: A Comprehensive Understanding of Its Biology, Use
in Screening, and Interventional Management provides a
comprehensive update on the current understanding of the
significance of coronary artery calcification, showing the
connection to the development of advanced atherosclerosis that will
lead to better risk evaluations. Coverage includes information on
the basic science behind the development of coronary calcium in
atherosclerotic lesions, the pathology of calcified coronary
lesions in humans, its differential development by race, and its
relationship to plaque progression. Computed tomography is also
covered to show the significance of coronary calcium for risk
prediction and the potential role of various pharmacologic
interventions. Each chapter contains summaries with salient and
important points, making this book perfect for researchers and
physicians interested in the field of vascular calcification.
This issue of Heart Failure Clinics, Guest Edited by Dr. Pasquale
Perrone Filardi, will focus on Hormonal and Metabolic Abnormalities
in Heart Failure Patients. This issue is one of four selected for
the year by the series Consulting Editor, Eduardo Bossone. Topics
include, but are not limited to, Glucose metabolism abnormalities
in heart failure patients, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, New oral
antidiabetics in chronic heart failure, Metabolic syndrome and
heart failure, Eritropoietin anemia and iron vs. exercise capacity
in chronic heart failure, Prognostic value of hormonal
abnormalities in heart failure patients, Hormonal Replacement
Therapy in Heart Failure, The management of thyroid abnormalities
in chronic heart failure, Acromegaly and heart failure,
Beta-receptor signaling and heart failure, and Evaluation of
cardiac metabolism by magnetic resonance spectroscopy in heart
failure.
This issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest edited by Dr. David S.
Younger, covers Vasculitis and the Nervous System. Topics include,
but are not limited to, History and Background of Vasculitis,
Overview of Primary and Secondary Vasculitis, Epidemiology of
Primary Systemic Vasculitis, Comorbidity and Health Outcomes of
Vasculitis, Experimental Autoimmune Vasculitis, Genetic Basis of
Vasculitides, General Approach to the Patient with Vasculitis,
ANCA-Associated Vasculitis, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Giant Cell
Arteritis, Dermatologic Aspects of Vasculitides,
Neuro-Ophthalmologic Aspects of Vasculitides, The Blood-Brain
Barrier: Implications for Vasculitis, Adult Primary Angiitis of the
Central Nervous System, Childhood Inflammatory Brain Diseases,
Adult Vasculitic Stroke, Central Nervous System Vasculitis Due to
Substance Abuse, Peripheral Nerve Vasculitis: Classification and
Disease Associations, Hashimoto Encephalopathy: Autoimmune
Encephalitis or Vasculitis, and Treatment of Primary Systemic and
Nervous System Vasculitis.
This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics will explore
Transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement. Curated by the
series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew J. Price, this issue will cover
topics and advances in the field that are relevant for practicing
clinicians. This issue is one of four selected each year by Dr.
Price. The volume will include articles on: Transcatheter Mitral
Valve Direct Annuloplasty With the Millipede Device, Transcatheter
Mitral Valve Replacement with Intrepid, Transcatheter Mitral Valve
Replacement with Tendyne, Treatment of functional mitral
regurgitation with transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, Transcatheter
Edge-to-Edge repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation,
Predicting Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Following
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement, Prevention and Treatment of
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction after Transcatheter
Mitral Valve Replacement, and Transatrial implantation of
transcatheter heart valve for mitral disease, among others.
This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr.
Otto Costantini, is devoted to Cardiac Arrhythmias. Articles in
this important issue include: Basic principles of cardiac
electrophysiology; The electrocardiogram: Still a useful tool in
the primary care office; Palpitation: Extended electrocardiogram
monitoring: Which tests to use and when; Inherited cardiac
arrhythmias/channelopathies; Antiarrhythmic drugs: Benefits and
risks; Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: Anticoagulants
and/or devices; Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of
atrial fibrillation; Supraventricular tachycardia; Ventricular
tachycardia with and without structural heart disease; Cardiac
Devices: Pacemakers, Defibrillators and Biventricular Devices;
Brady-arrhythmias; When is syncope arrhythmic?; Sudden Cardiac
Death: Who is at risk?; and Arrhythmias and Congenital Heart
Disease. A CME program is also available for this title.
The Internet and other technological developments are now playing
increasing roles in consumer health and the delivery of health
services. Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical
Applications provides developmental solutions and explanations for
cardiovascular diagnostics. Useful to field researchers,
academicians, and healthcare practitioners, this Premier Reference
Source presents a collection of studies on medical data redundancy,
priority, and validity.
This book covers the latest research development in heart valve
biomechanics and bioengineering, with an emphasis on novel
experimentation, computational simulation, and applications in
heart valve bioengineering. The most current research
accomplishments are covered in detail, including novel concepts in
valvular viscoelasticity, fibril/molecular mechanisms of tissue
behavior, fibril kinematics-based constitutive models,
mechano-interaction of valvular interstitial and endothelial cells,
biomechanical behavior of acellular valves and tissue engineered
valves, novel bioreactor designs, biomechanics of transcatheter
valves, and 3D heart valve printing. This is an ideal book for
biomedical engineers, biomechanics, surgeons, clinicians, business
managers in the biomedical industry, graduate and undergraduate
students studying biomedical engineering, and medical students.
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