Published October, 2012
By Thomas H Marwick
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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ARMSTRONG While stress echocardiography is not the first technique to be applied to patients for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, it represents an impor tant clinical tool, likely to become of increasing pertinence in today's era of cost containment and mandated cost-effectiveness of diagnosis.

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Published October, 2012
By Thomas H Marwick, Ernst E. van der Wall, Johan H. C. Reiber and Ernst E. Wall
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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In recent years there have been tremendous advances in cardiac imaging techniques covering the complete spectrum from echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, magnetic resonance imaging to contrast angiography.

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Published October, 2012
By Ernst E. van der Wall, A.S. Iskandrian, Ernst E. Wall and Ami Iskandrian
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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These diagnostic modalities include: cardiac catheterization, positron-emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, two-dimensional echocardiography and single-photon imaging.

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Published October, 2012
By G.T. Meester and F. Pinciroli
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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A database is in principle just a large collection of related or separate data, systematically stored in a computer. The later analysis of data from such a database is greatly enhanced by the availability of special query languages and statistical analysis programs, not only for serial items but also for large combinations of data.

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Published October, 2012
By A.G. Herman
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By J.C. Tardif and Martial G. Bourassa
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Mitochondrial respiration, phagocytic activity and cyclooxygenase activation are all essential processes of life, which also generate oxidative species.

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Published October, 2012
By P.J. Walter
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Unlike earlier years when doctors were clinically free to decide what should be done with a patient, health has become an expensive human right, decisions about which also involve the patient, the epidemiologist, the health policy administrator, politicians, the exchequer, and the philosopher.

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Published October, 2012
By Johan H. C. Reiber and P.W. Serruys
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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This is the fifth volume in this series on quantitative coronary arteriography (QCA) published over the last nine years. As the X-ray cardiovascular world steadily moves into the digital imaging era, differences and similarities between the conventional cinefilm and the modern digital approaches are presented.

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Published October, 2012
By M. Morad, S. Ebashi, W. Trautwein and Yoshihisa Kurachi
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Knowledge of cardiac ion channels and transporters has advanced remarkably in the last two decades with the development of patch-clamp and molecular biological techniques. The book will be useful to electrophysiologists, cardiac physiologists and pharmacologists, and molecular biologists interested in ion channels at all levels.

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Published October, 2012
By Ernst E. van der Wall, H. Sochor, A. Righetti, M.G. Niemeyer and Ernst E. Wall
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Since the introduction of myocardial perfusion imaging and radionuclide angiography in the mid-seventies, cardiovascular nuclear medicine has undergone an explosive growth.

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