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A detailed description of available to the clinician and the researcher, laser recanalization techniques is presented for which often makes the choice of a laser system the various systems in the clinical setting.

Chapters 14, 15 and 16 address applications of Doppler echocardiography during the stresses of brief coronary occlusion, myocar dial infarction and post infarction recovery, while chapters 17 and 20 illustrate applications of stress Doppler techniques in valvular heart disease.

Stress Echocardiography - Its Role in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease - Second Edition by Thomas Marwick is a concise, practical guide for anyone new to the field of stress echocardiography or an excellent summary of the existing evidence base for the experienced user.

Coronary pressure measurement has emerged as a major step forward in the invasive assessment of coronary artery disease. In this text, the theoretical and physiological background of this approach is systematically reviewed and clinical applications are illustrated.

Offers a portrait of how the heart works and in this picture the author shows a close-up of the structural, biochemical, and physiological links between excitation and contraction. This book describes a general scheme of calcium regulation and discusses the possible sources and sinks of calcium.

Presents the topic of homocysteine from the basic biochemical, metabolic, genetic, and dietary determinants to disease relationships, including concepts of pathogenesis.

Cardiac surgery is performed on hundreds of thousands of patients a year, and can have an important beneficial impact on the outcomes of patients with coronary and valvular heart diseases.

Written by the leaders in the field, this volume provides a practical and comprehensive overview of the electrocardiogram (ECG). It evaluates the patient presenting with symptoms suggestive of acute myocardial ischemia. It is a useful reference for cardiac electrophysiologists, cardiologists, internists or emergency room physicians.

Intracoronary ultrasound is a imaging modality and the published studies indicates that the technique is safe and provides diagnostic information than coronary angiography. This monograph presents the developments in this field.

As the life expectancy of patients with arterial hypertension increases, hypertension in the elderly is becoming a relevant medical and social problem.

Despite the significant decline in heart disease mortaht>' rates over the last 25 years, heart failure has remained a significant problem.

Proceedings of the Symposium sponsored by the Council of Cardiac Metabolism, International Society and Federation of Cardiology and International Society for Heart Research, May 11-13, 1989, Ottawa, Canada

The last five years have witnessed an increasing interest in the subject of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) as illustrated by the number of abstracts presented at the meetings of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology (Figure).

Serves as a guide for investigators in the fields of cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, pulmonary vascular disease, high-altitude physiology and medicine. This volume, divided into eight sections, aims to provide a solid scientific foundation for subsequent applications in clinical practice.

This text deals with current topics in the field of cardiac electrophysiology, arrhythmias and pacing, with special emphasis on techniques for diagnosis and treatment. It is based on lectures given at the Europace '97 Congress.

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The newest appiication of the ubiquitous Doppler principle, laser-Doppler velocimetry, has been used to measure blood ftow in tissue for just a few years, but we perceived that, like most new techniques, the birth of laser-Doppler blood ftowmetry was not easy, nor was it likely to pass through infancy and reach maturity without difficulty.

Implantable defibrillators as originally conceived by Michel Mirowski were limited to the detection and automatic termination of ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular tachycardia detection allowed the successful development of interventions for the termination of ventricular tachyarrhythmias before they degenerated into ventricular fibrillation.

The four eras have focused on pathologic anatomy, clinicophysiologic correlations and surgery, heart problems in infancy, and now the developing heart. In each era there have been advances in the four domains of pediatric cardiology, the heart before birth, the normal heart, heart disease and defects, and preventive cardiology.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Stress and Heart Disease, June 26-29, 1984, Winnipeg, Canada

Heat shock proteins (HSP) were originally described in heat-shocked drosophila by Ritossa in the early 1960's. The purpose of this volume is to give an overview of our current understanding of the heat shock proteins in the cardiovascular system, and to summarize the approaches to the study of heat shock proteins in the heart.

Accurate diagnosis of arrhythmias is the goal of this volume. Without a clear understanding of these criteria, an accurate differential diagnosis is impossible, and without accurate diagnosis, correct intervention is a mere matter of chance.

To the extent, however, that physicians who utilize ICDs are not sufficiently comfortable with or familiar with the engineering principles that guide ICD function, the full clinical potential of even an ideal device will not be realized.

Furthermore, the growing understanding of the conception of minimal myocardial damage in the borderzone between unstable angina pectoris and myocardial infarction necessitates refinement in the definitions of the various entities within the kaleidoscope of acute myocardial ischaemia.

Improving our insights into the genetic predisposition to cardiovascular disease is one of the most important challenges in our field in the next millennium, not only to unravel the cause of disease but also to improve the selection of patients for particular treatments.

Cardiovascular diseases are the most important causes of death in the world today. It has been demonstrated that physical exercise or sports at any age provide notable benefits and can help to decrease other risk factors and reduce the incidence of cardio vascular diseases.

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Diabetic Heart sponsored by the Council of Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology held in Tokyo, Japan, October 1989

Our understanding of the pathophysiology of acute myocardial infarction has grown enormously in recent years.