Published October, 2012
By Lloyd W. Klein and James E. Calvin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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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.

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Published October, 2012
By Akira Matsumori
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By Mark W. Kroll and Michael H. Lehmann
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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.

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Published October, 2012
By Robert L. Wilensky
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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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.

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Published October, 2012
By Bernard Swynghedauw
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist, Second Edition provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology.

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Published October, 2012
By Juan Carlos Kaski
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Angina with Normal Coronary Arteries: Syndrome X contributes to the understanding of Syndrome X and helps clinicians manage their Syndrome X-patients better and investigators to open new avenues for research.

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Published October, 2012
By Franz H. Messerli
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Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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All chapters are supplied with a thorough list of references, making this third edition of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly the most thorough, concise guide for the practicing physician.

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Published October, 2012
By Derek Yellon, Derek M. Yellon and G.F. Baxter
Publisher: Springer
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Interest in the ability of myocardium to adapt to ischaemic stress has continued to grow since the discovery of ischaemic preconditioning in 1986.

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Published October, 2012
By John F. Keaney Jr.
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Treatment to lower plasma levels of cholesterol - primarily low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol - is now accepted as best medical practice and both physicians and patients are being educated to take aggressive measures to lower LDL.

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Published October, 2012
By Keith L. March
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Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
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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.

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