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Noninvasive electrocardiographic monitoring is a fundamental part of cardiology. Furthermore, review articles focus on the autonomic nervous system, monitoring of ischemic heart disease, quality control and standardization of monitoring techniques.

This compact guide on the practical management of the hypertensive individual first saw light in 1990. And, yes, this booklet has become something of a hybrid, a compromise between an ultra lean and superbly pictorial compendium like the Clinician's Manual on Hypertension (Hansson, 1990) and the ABC of Hypertension (O'Brien et aI.

Interest in the ability of myocardium to adapt to ischaemic stress has continued to grow since the discovery of ischaemic preconditioning in 1986.

Studies of afflicted individuals, when combined with investigations in experimental animals, provided the basis for a concept of methionine metabo lism that encompassed both transmethylation and transsulfuration.

During the last decade we have witnessed a rapid expansion of our knowledge of the role of the endothelium in the control of vascular tone and hemostasis.

Since the first pacemaker implantation in October 1958 by Senning and Elmqvist in Sweden, cardiac pacing for bradycardia has become a well-established therapy.

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist, Second Edition provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology.

Focuses on the actions of purines in cardiovascular biology, where it is clear that they play major roles in both normal and pathophysiological conditions. This book covers the cardiovascular actions mediated by the major P1 and P2 subclasses of purinoceptors and emphasizes the interactions between these two signalling systems.

The immense growth in the number of articles on adenosine cardioprotection has been related in large part to the hypothesis that adenosine plays a role in ischemic preconditioning. This title discusses different aspects of adenosine cardioprotection and ischemic preconditioning, including potential mechanisms and clinical applications.

Proceedings of the course on the kidney in essential hypertension, held at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18-19, 1983

Over two centuries ago, oxygen was discovered as "air vital": the component of the earth's atmosphere necessary for life. The deleterious ef fects of oxygen radicals and activated oxygen species on a variety of biological systems have now been described.

Reviews the oxidative modification hypothesis and its close relationship to lipid metabolism and to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. This book also describes the different compounds, nutrients and supplements with antioxidant properties and their mechanisms of action, and discusses the benefits of antioxidants in cardiovascular prevention.

He is currently a research scientist in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Andrew R.

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.

Cardiac surgery is performed on hundreds of thousands of patients a year, and can have an important beneficial impact on the outcomes of patients with coronary and valvular heart diseases.

Despite approximately 50 years of progress in the management of com plex congenital heart disease, hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) has been one of the last cardiac malformations to yield to effective surgical treat ment.

After exploratory surveys in countries with supposed differences in dietary patterns, lifestyle and heart disease rates in the early 1950s, the Seven Countries Study took off in 1958.

Although there are many books on angina, few are devoted to the important problem of how to evaluate drug efficacy in angina pectoris.

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Diabetic Heart sponsored by the Council of Cardiac Metabolism of the International Society and Federation of Cardiology held in Tokyo, Japan, October 1989

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist, Second Edition provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology.

Despite recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of various cardiac illnesses, including ischemic, valvular and cardiomyopathic disease, the most cost-effective means of employing laboratory testing and treatment modalities remains an issue in most practice settings.

The last five years have witnessed an increasing interest in the subject of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) as illustrated by the number of abstracts presented at the meetings of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology (Figure).

Since plaque disruption, plaque erosion, and acute intracoronary thrombus formation play major roles in the pathophysiology of both unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction, and since the two disease entities represent a continuum of coronary ischemic syndromes, it is appropriate to discuss the two disease states in a single monograph.

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.

a process brought about by the insertion of a gene coding for a foreign protein into target cells resulting in the synthesis of the foreign protein For gene therapy, a tmnsferred therapeutic gene must be expressed at a level beneficial for the patient.

To the extent, however, that physicians who utilize ICDs are not sufficiently comfortable with or familiar with the engineering principles that guide ICD function, the full clinical potential of even an ideal device will not be realized.