Published November, 2012
By Michel Emile Safar and M.F. O'Rourke
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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As a first step in better analysis of the blood pressure curve, research workers in experimental hypertension defined in addition to peak systolic pressure and end diastolic, another blood pressure value, mean arterial pressure, i.

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Published November, 2012
By Julio E. Perez and Roberto M. Lang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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For over a quarter of a century, echocardiography has made an unparalleled contribution to clinical cardiology as a major tool for real-time imaging of cardiac dynamics.

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Published October, 2012
By Vinzenz Hombach, M. Kochs and A.J. Camm
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Since the introduction of balloon angioplasty for the relief of coronary artery stenoses and of anginal symptoms in patients with coronary artery disease by Andreas Griintzig in 1977, the field of interventional technology and treatment strategies has grown enormously.

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Published October, 2012
By R. Vos
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Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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We all know how much time, effort and money it takes to develop a new drug. Each new drug starts a voyage of discovery through an unmapped terrain which is shrouded in mist and beset by pitfalls, as Dr. Rein Vos puts it in his absorbing inside story of the development of the beta-adrenoceptor blocking agents and the calcium antagonists.

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Published October, 2012
By J. Candell-Riera and D. Ortega-Alcalde
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By P.W. Serruys, B. Strauss and S.B. King III
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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In addition to the lucid summaries of the early and late results of these new devices, important issues in the methodology of restenosis research are addressed, including limitations of quantitative coronary arteriography in evaluating the new devices and important advances in alternatives to arteriography such as intravascular imaging.

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Published October, 2012
By Peter Hanrath, R. Uebis and W. Krebs
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By R.W. Stout
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Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By K.J. Lie, J.H. Kingma, N.M. van Hemel and Norbert van Hemel
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Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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The attack of atrial fibrillation experienced by President Bush of the United States attracted more attention from the general public to atrial fibrillation than ever before.

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Published October, 2012
By Johan H. C. Reiber and P.W. Serruys
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The book is subdivided into a total of eight parts, beginning with the more methodological issues, such as QCA and other modalities (3 chapters), cine film versus digital arteriography (3 chapters), quality control in QCA (4 chapters), and coronary blood flow and flow reserve (3 chapters).

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