Published December, 2010
By U. Joseph Schoepf
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Leading clinicians and researchers from around the world review the full scope of current developments, research, and scientific controversy regarding the principles and applications of cardiac CT.

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Published November, 2010
By Roger J. Laham and Donald S. Baim
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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An interdisciplinary panel of pioneers and opinion leaders review the basic, preclinical, clinical, and developmental pathways to new treatment strategies, such as therapeutic angiogenesis and myogenesis.

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Published November, 2010
By Charles Antzelevitch, Ihor Gussak, Stephen C. Hammill, W.-K. Shen, Preben Bjerregaard and Win K. Shen
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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A comprehensive review of all the latest developments in cardiac electrophysiology, focusing on both the clinical and experimental aspects of ventricular repolarization, including newly discovered clinical repolarization syndromes, electrocardiographic phenomena, and their correlation with the most recent advances in basic science.

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Published November, 2010
By JoAnne Micale Foody and Jo Anne Micale Foody
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Preventive Cardiology: Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease, Second Edition is intended for clinical cardio- gists, internists, primary care providers, and allied health care professionals who wish to extend their knowledge and expertise in the rapidly expanding field of preventive car- ology.

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Published November, 2010
By David A. Morrow
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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In the four pages committed to a discussion of myocardial infarction in the first edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, published in 1950, there was no mention of use of the laboratory for management of patients.

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Published November, 2010
By James E. Tcheng and James Tcheng
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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With the introduction of balloon angioplasty in the late 1970s, a few interventional cardiologists braved the question: why not perform emergency angioplasty as a primary reperfusion strategy?

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Published November, 2010
By Leslee J. Shaw and Rita F. Redberg
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Additional chapters examine the effects of gender bias in diagnosis and treatment, the role of gynecologists as primary care physicians for women, health technology assessment in an era of managed care, and the problems of analyzing cost-effectiveness in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease in women.

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Published November, 2010
By A. Michael Lincoff
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Published November, 2010
By Jay D. Coffman and Robert T. Eberhardt
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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Published November, 2010
By Martin Quinn, Desmond Fitzgerald and Dermott Cox
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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The authors delineate an up-to-date picture of platelet biology and describe methods for assessing platelet function, including the commonly used platelet aggregation, thromboxane production, procoagulant function, platelet function under flow, and the expression of platelet activation markers.

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