Published December, 2010
By Marshall Glesby
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford American Pocket Notes
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Published December, 2010
By Mark G. Davies, Alan B. Lumsden, William E. Kline and Ioannis Kakadiaris
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The Pumps and Pipes collaboration and conference brings together energy, medicine, and higher education in a unique shared effort, exploring ideas and research common to these important fields and stimulating discussion and sharing technologies that can further the reach and goals of each individual area.

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Published December, 2010
By Bohuslav Ostadal and Frantisek Kolar
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Basic Science for the Cardiologist
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Cardiac Ischemia: From Injury to Protection has been divided into six parts. The first part describes the differences between hypoxia and ischemia, animal models, the effects of ischemia on myocardial function and metabolism, and the electrophysiological consequences of ischemia.

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Published December, 2010
By L.Bing Liem and L. Bing Liem
Publisher: Springer
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ICD therapy has become the standard form of treatment for ventricular tachyarrhythmias. In addition to providing rapid and effective therapy for ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation, the ICD is now capable of providing a full spectrum dual-chamber pacing as well as therapies for atrial fibrillation.

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Published December, 2010
By Lars Hoff and L. Hoff
Publisher: Springer
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Contrast agents for medical ultrasound imaging is a field of growing interest. The following chapters, 4, 5, 6, and 7, describe experimental and theoretical methods used to characterize the acoustic properties of the agents, and results of studies on some agents.

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Published December, 2010
By Jose Marin-Garcia
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Furthermore, our understanding of the multiple roles that mitochondria play in cardiac cell homeostasis opened the door for intensive experimentation to understand the pathogenesis and to find new treatments for cardiovascular diseases.

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Published December, 2010
By Mehmet C Oz and Daniel J. Goldstein
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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In some parts of the world, the procedures were viewed as commodities and prices dropped as providers were unable to differentiate the quality of their work. In effect, what we were really searching for was a life saving procedure that also preserved quality of life.

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Published December, 2010
By Jay D. Humphrey
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This text presents a general introduction to soft tissue biomechanics. One of its primary goals is to introduce basic analytical, experimental and computational methods. In doing so, it enables readers to gain a relatively complete understanding of the biomechanics of the heart and vasculature.

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Published December, 2010
By R.E. Tracy
Publisher: Springer
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The cover of this book summarizes the central features of the sequestration hypothesis: Commonplace appearances seen in human coronary artery, fat stained in paraffin seetions by a new technique explained in Chapter Eleven, are arranged to suggest pathways of evolution toward atheroma.

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Published December, 2010
By Mees Evert J. Dorhout and E.J. Dorhout Mees
Publisher: Springer
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While primarily intended for dialysis doctors, the author sincerely hopes that dialysis nurses, who carry the lion's share of day-to-day responsibility for dialysis patients, will also find this book a useful and practical guide to dialysis treatment.

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