Molecular cardiology in clinical practice /

Cardiology is an area of great recent triumphs in pharmacological and surgical treatment, yet cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. Coronary disease, heart failure, stroke and sudden arrhythmic cardiac death challenge both medical pract...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Sanders, Michael, 1943-, Kostis, John B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1999]
Series:Basic science for the cardiologist ; 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to molecular medicine : a contemporary view of heart failure / Michael R. Sanders
  • Molecular mechanisms of myocardial remodeling / Wilson S. Colucci
  • Pathophysiology of heart failure in regurgitant valvular diseases : relation to ventricular dysfunction and clinical debility / Jeffrey S. Borer [and others]
  • Coronary atherothrombosis : pathophysiology and clinical implications / Avi Fischer [and others]
  • Prevention of atherosclerosis : endothelial function, cholesterol and antioxidants / Robert A. Vogel
  • Physiologic and pathophysiologic effects of angiotensin in the heart and vessel wall / Richard E. Pratt
  • Regulation of inflammation by FAS ligand expression on the vascular endothelium / Kenneth Walsh, Masataka Sata
  • Molecular mechanisms of platelet activation and inhibition / A. Koneti Rao
  • Molecular determinants of the T wave / Michael R. Rosen
  • Sexual dimorphism in cardiovascular disease / Stephen Bakir, Suzanne Oparil.