Published December, 2010
By Pim J. de Feyter, P. W. Serruys, David P. Foley, P.W. Serruys, D.P. Foley and Pim J. Feyter
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Quantitative coronary angiography has become an invaluable tool for the interventional cardiologist, providing objective and reproducible measurements of coronary artery dimensions, which can be used to study progression or regression of coronary atherosclerosis, as well as the immediate and long term effects of percutaneous interventions.

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Published December, 2010
By David W. Holt and Juan Carlos Kaski
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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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.

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Published December, 2010
By Jay D. Humphrey and Stephen C. Cowin
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ix Preface There are two primary areas for the application of elasticity in the biomechanics of tissues: hard tissue mechanics (e.g., bone, teeth, horns, etc.) and soft tissue - chanics (e.g., skin, tendons, arteries, etc.). While "hard" tissues only experience small deformations, soft tissues typically experience large deformations.

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Published December, 2010
By Leslie T. Cooper and Jr. Cooper
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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On the clinical side they discuss the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of nonspecific and specific myocarditis in separate chapters devoted to such major idiopathic clinical entities as cardiac sarcoidosis, giant cell myocarditis, eosinophilic myocarditis, Chagas disease, rheumatic fever, and human immunodeficiency virus-related cardiomyopathy.

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Published December, 2010
By Stefan Bauer, Jurgen Ennker and Kerstin Bauer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Operationen am Herzen
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Nach einem Herzeingriff - einer Operation oder dem Aufdehnen der Herzkranzgefasse - stellen sich viele Fragen: - Was liegt meiner Herzerkrankung zugrunde? - Wie kann ich behandelt werden?

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Published December, 2010
By Robert P. Baughman, Roberto Carbone, Giovanni Bottino and Roberto G. Carbone
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a broad category of lung diseases that includes more than 150 disorders characterized by scarring or fibrosis of the lungs.

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Published December, 2010
By Nicholas S. Hill and Harrison W. Farber
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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This timely volume addresses the areas of pathophysiology and therapy of pulmonary hypertension, which have seen exciting developments over the past decade. The discoveries of endothelin overexpression as well as prostacyclin and nitric oxide deficiency in association with pulmonary hypertension have led to important therapeutic insights.

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Published December, 2010
By Marc S. Penn
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Over the past 5 years there has been great excitement and controversy in the scientific, financial, and lay literature for the potential of stem cell-based strategies for the prev- tion and treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF).

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Published December, 2010
By J. Hess, George R. Sutherland and G.R. Sutherland
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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In May 1990, the First International Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults was organized in Rotterdam.

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Published December, 2010
By Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark, E.P. Clark and E.Phyllis Clark
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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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.

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