Product Description: The refined pathophysiologal understanding of the heart failure syndrome together with the surge of new technological advances led to innovative medical and interventional treatment strategies improving the outcome of heart failure patients...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiac Arrest and Bypass SurgeryAuthor: Sato, Atsuko (EDT)/ Hayashi, Seiji (EDT)Publisher: Nova Science Pub IncPublication Date: 2012/06/30Number of Pages: 292Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 201104027...read more

Product Description: Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone at any time. But in many cities, people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are up to 46 times more likely to die than those who experience cardiac arrest in Seattle and King County, Washington, or Rochester, Minnesota--an astonishing and completely preventable variance in survival rates...read more

Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year throughout the world. Covering the most recent developments in this field, this leading text serves as a guide to this area of increasing clinical importance, addressing a wide range of topics, including:basic mechanisms of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillationclinical syndromes and etiologiesepidemiology and risk stratificationpharmacologic therapyablation and surgeryimplantable defibrillatorsVentricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death provides the information that cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, cardiac electrophysiology fellows, scientists, industry, and associated professionals need to know about current and evolving Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia treatment and diagnosis. As the most comprehensive book on this topic, it will serve as the text that this readership will turn to first.

Product Description: Not many twenty eight years olds have enough life experiences to write an entertaining autobiography. Matthew D. Noble could have written three by now. Born in 1976 with an abnormal heart, he spent his formative years literally wondering if his next heartbeat would be his last...read more

Product Description: Cardiovascular diseases are the most important causes of death in the world today. In adults, the most frequent heart disease is acute myocardial infarction, which can lead to sudden death. To prevent these diseases we need to fight against their main risk factors, which include smoking, lipid disorders, hypertension, diabetes and a sedentary life-style, among others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The publication embodied here represents the life work of a premier Russian scientist studying Sudden Cardiac Death. As one can gather from more than 35 first authored publications cited in the References, Dr. Rajskina has been involved with the investigation of mechanisms responsible for Sudden Cardiac Death for over 30 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sudden death of a seemingly healthy individual, especially an athletic one, is difficult to comprehend. The Athlete and Heart Disease is the first comprehensive reference to address the problem of cardiovascular disease in athletes, and to assist you in identifying and managing athletic patients who are at risk for sudden cardiac death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The unexpected death of an athlete during exercise is a tragic irony - albeit with a history dating back to Pheldippides, who collapsed after his original Marathon run. We are more apt to consider vigorous exercise as a protective measure against cardiovascular events and not as a triggering mechanism for them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Committee on Sudden Cardiac Death of the American Heart Association, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Nursing and Basic Science have joined together to produce this landmark text. It takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to the diagnoses and management of patients at high risk for life-threatening dysrhythmias, superbly presenting the pathophysiological, diagnostic and pharmacological aspects of patient management and is well complemented by an in- depth review of research on patient and family responses to the illness and its treatment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume on cardiac arrest focuses on the pathophysiology and therapy of sudden death. Topics covered include: the pathophysiology of global ischaemia and reperfusion; the therapy of sudden death; and social issues related to sudden death and man's attempt to reverse it. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a personal viewpoint of the relationship between the occlusive coronary thrombus and acute myocardial infarction based on more than forty years of morphological studies. Most contributions published so far look at only one aspect of ischemic heart disease generally investigated by one method...read more

Product Description: Changes in the understanding of the mechanism of sudden cardiac death and its management have developed recently and require a reassessment of this issue. This revision of the initial book by Dr Goldstein has been significantly added to his co-authors, Drs Bayes-de-Luna and Guindo-Soldevia...read more

Product Description: This text is intended to be of use to cardiologists, emergency physicians and house officers. It covers topics concerning sudden cardiac death, including: knowledge gathered from animal models; role of triggers in sudden cardiac death; and the evaluation of risk in sudden cardiac death...read more

Product Description: Many cardiologists believe that all sudden cardiac deaths are caused by thrombosis (clotting), and/or stenosis (narrowing of the vessels) when in reality many are caused by arrhythmia (disorders of rhythm). This text sets out to correct this assumption...read more

Product Description: Sudden death is probably the greatest challenge facing modem cardiology today. This is mainly due to the impact of its brusque appearance and the socioeconomic implications. The incidende is presently decreasing somewhat, mainly due to the decline in new cases of ischemic heart disease on one hand, and to better preven­ tion in risk patients on the other...read more

Product Description: Pathologists are often confronted with cases of sudden cardiac death. The role of anatomical abnormalities or pathological lesions of the cardiac conduction system in sudden unexplained death has previously received insufficient attention...read more

Product Description: Book by Hearse, David J., Mannings, Allen S.