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The Atlas of Practical Applications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance contains over two hundred illustrations, an accompanying CD-ROM with cine-loops and a glossary of terms. This atlas will assist cardiologists to determine when a CMR exam is useful for diagnosis and provide details on how to plan and read CMR studies.

Guillem Pons-Llado, MD is Director of the Cardiac Imaging Unit at the Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

Francesc Carreras, MD is part of the Cardiac Imaging Unit at the Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.

Atlas of Practical Applications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

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Internationally recognized opinion makers and experts in clinical and laboratory medicine synthesize the latest developments in the use of cardiac biomarkers by the practicing physician. The authors focus on integrating biomarkers into the contemporary clinical management of patients with cardiovascular disease, emphasizing clinical studies, evidence-based diagnostic algorithms, and critical pathways for triage and therapy, whenever available. They also illuminate the connections between specific biomarkers and the basic pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, explain the analytical properties of the assays relevant to clinical practice, and highlight emerging novel biomarkers and new direction for biomarker development. Numerous figures, illustrations, and tables make key evidence and practical guidelines easily accessible. The book makes clear as never before to today’s busy cardiologists, emergency room physicians, and internists how the various assays perform, which ones they should order to evaluate their patients, and how they might change their therapeutic approach based on the results of a biomarker assay.

Cardiovascular Biomarkers: Pathophysiology and Disease Management

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Engineering science is presently contributing enormously to the improvement of quality of health and patient care, and physicians, clinical engineers and paramedics are increasingly dependent on high-tech apparatus for diagnosis, therapy or research. This technical revolution has encouraged the use of fluid dynamic principles for solving flow and fluid problems within the cardiovascular system, in extracorporeal circulation and artificial organs. Featuring a collection of expert reviews in lecture note format, Intra and Extracorporeal Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics: General Principles in Application contains contributions from active members of international biomedical engineering organisations such as the IFMBE, the ISAO, the ESEM, the ESAO and the INFA. A comprehensive introduction for students, it also provides a state-of-the-art guide for investigators working in this fascinating and complex field.

Intra and Extracorporeal Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics: Volume 1, General Principles in Application

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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Written by an eminent cardiovascular physiologist with a strong track record in dealing with issues related to exercise and environmental physiology, this text covers cardiovascular function from the exercise and human physiologist’s viewpoint. It provides a solid foundation of knowledge of how the cardiovascular system responds and adapts to the challenges of exercise and environmental change, and analyses the practicalities of measuring cardiovascular parameters in normal human subjects.

• Case studies in exercise physiology throughout text.
• Open-ended questions at end of each chapter encourage students to explore common situations facing exercise and human physiologists.
• Bibliography at end of each chapter directs students to further reading resources.
• Summaries at start of each chapter and multiple choice questions with explanatory answers at end of book aid revision and help students test their knowledge.

Cardiovascular Physiology in Exercise and Sport

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In the last few years, derivatives of L-carnitine, such as acetyl-L-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine, have been made available to doctors for treatment of specific pathologies. The effects of this family of related carnitine compounds on cardiovascular systems and diseases constitute the major issue addressed in this volume. Although several books on carnitine have been published, a treatise focusing on experimental and clinical aspects of the carnitine family and cardiovascular diseases was lacking. The present book provides the reader with a concise update in this field. The information collected from experts on various aspects of the fascinating compound, carnitine, will be useful for both clinicians and basic scientists.

The Carnitine System: A New Therapeutical Approach to Cardiovascular Diseases

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Certain to become the most trusted source in geriatric cardiology, this Third Edition compiles the latest studies and expertise on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of cardiovascular disease in the elderly patient—tracking the rapid pace of innovation in the field with in-depth explorations of the most recent clinical trials and advances in vascular biology, cardiology, and cardiovascular surgery for influential developments in disease prevention and management.

Cardiovascular Disease In The Elderly, Third Edition, Revised And Expanded

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This book contains a collection of expert reviews of new computational techniques to simulate blood-wall interaction in the cardiovascular system. It is the result of two three-day courses organised within the COMETT (Community Action Programme for Education and Training for Technology) programme of the European Community and many of the contributors are active members of international biomedical organisations such as the IFMBE, the ESEM, the ESAO, the INFA, and the ESB.

Featuring a collection of expert reviews in lecture note format, the text provides both a comprehensive introduction for students, and a state-of-the-art guide for investigators working in the fascinating and complex field of computational cardiovascular mechanics. A companion volume Intra and Extracorporeal Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics: Volume 1 – General Principles in Application is also available from WIT Press (see details below).

Intra and Extracorporeal Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics: Vol. 2 – Fluid Structure Interaction

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One of the newly emerging themes in clinical practice is the concept of ‘gender specific’ medicine – the realization that the pathogenesis, etiology and progression of disease often differs between the sexes. In some instances, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are known, in others, they remain the focus of speculation. In many cases, the impact of disease and the options for management have greater importance in the female when these factors are related to reproductive health and the well-being of the women who are, or hope to be, bearing children. Cardiovascular disease is of singular importance in this context, and this authoritative new text provides a comprehensive synthesis of our current knowledge in the area. Presenting recommendations for therapeutic strategies that address the special considerations that apply in women patients, such as fertility and hormone replacement therapy, Cardiovascular Disease in Women also provides an update on research findings that will influence clinical practice.

Cardiovascular Disease in Women

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This 4th Ed is designed to provide an updated practical compendium of current knowledge regarding cardiovascular drug therpy in a concise, easily readable format. The book is organized into chapters by drug class, and details the pharmacologic characteristics of specific treatment entities. The clinical efficacy and limitations of the various drug therapies are discussed using supportive material from the most authorative sources and published clinical trials.

Current Cardiovascular Drugs

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Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA. Second edition of reference on new drugs used to treat cardiovascular disorders and related conditions, for cardiologists and internists. Previous edition 1990. 286 contributors, 180 U.S. DNLM: Cardiovascular Diseases – drug therapy.

Cardiovascular Drug Therapy