Published November, 2011
By Henk Keurs and J.J. Schipperheyn
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is usually considered to be a compen satory adjustment of heart muscle to an inreased work load.

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Published November, 2011
By R. Fagard, A. Amery, P. Lijnen and J. Staessen
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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This treatise on hypertension arrives at a time when there is an increasing recognition the world over of the importance of detecting and treating high blood pressure. Professor Amery is one of the leaders in the field of hypertension and serves on the Council of the International Society of Hypertension.

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Published November, 2011
By C.T. Lancée
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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This time, we decided to broaden the basis of the meeting and have a three-day program of parallel sessions, combining invited papers, free com munications and posters. We decided, however, to maintain one of the most striking features of the last meeting- having the complete proceedings available at the time of the meeting.

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Published November, 2011
By J.R. Roelandt and Richard S. Meltzer
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Why a book on contrast echocardiography? This is only natural, since shunt detection and analysis of flow relationships are relatively more important in congenital heart diseases, and cur rently represent the most important uses for contrast echo cardiography in day-to day practice.

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Published November, 2011
By Duncan Richards, Jeffrey Aronson, D. John Reynolds, Jamie Coleman and Jeffrey K. Aronson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medical Handbooks
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This Handbook mirrors the leading national guides to prescribing. The safe and effective use of medicine requires a sound knowledge of pharmacology. As readers use this practical book, they will increase their knowledge.

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Published November, 2011
By G.C. Descovich
Publisher: Springer
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The advances in the field of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease continue at an increasingly rapid pace and it is an arduous task for those not directly involved to keep up with the latest developments.

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Published November, 2011
By G.S. Wagner
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Patients currently experiencing acute myocardial infarcts are the beneficiaries of information gathered during the 80 years since this clinical phenomenon was described and the 20 years since treatment in coronary care units was introduced.

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Published November, 2011
By H. Kesteloot and J.V. Joosens
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Whether blood pressures are measured by doctors or by technicians, are recorded at home, in the working place or in a hospital, in sitting, standing or supine position, and is taken during the same examination-all of these whether a blood sample factors can influence blood pressure measurement.

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Published November, 2011
By Colin M. Bloor
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Topics in Cardiovascular Disease
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For over two decades we have had the opportunity, first at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut and then at University Hospital, San Diego, California, to study the pulmonary and bronchial circulations in patients with congenital heart disease.

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Published November, 2011
By William K. Hass and J.Donald Easton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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