Steinkopff imprint: 84 books
Endothelial Mechanisms of Vasomotor Control
With special Reference to the Coronary Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of our knowledge regarding the role of the endothelium in the control of vascular tone (and organ perfusion) in health and disease. Physiology, pharmacology, and molecular biology have uncovered a wealth of information on structure and function...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cardiac hypertrophy and accompanying phenomena have received increasing attention in recent years - particularly in the basic sciences. The present volume contains the proceedings of the Erwin RIESCH SYMPOSIUM on "CARDIAC ADAPTATION TO HEMODYNAMIC OVERLOAD, TRAINING AND STRESS" held in Tiibingen...
Mild Hypertension
Current controversies and new approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is clear evidence that in severe hypertension lowering blood pressure, by drug therapy decreases the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Recent studies suggest that such benefit may also extend to patients with mild to moderate hypertension. The putative benefits of drugs may be offset,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The measurement of cardio-circulatory and gas-exchange parameters during phy sical exercise - the so-called ergo spirometry or cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) - as a basis of pathophysiological and clinical research has a long tradition in Cologne. Knipping and his coworkers, especially Hollmann,...
Mechanical Circulatory Support
• In Children • Towards Myocardial Recovery • Permanent
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After decades of laboratory investigations mechanical circulatory support for the failing heart has entered the clinical arena. Today, a growing number of patients with progressive myocardial failure awaiting cardiac transplantation is successfully bridged to transplantation with ventricular assist...
The clinically organ-confined adenocarcinoma of the prostate
Natural history, selection criteria for radical prostatectomy and prognostic factors based on long-term follow-up
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Dr. Hans-Peter Schmid has addressed in this monograph the basic dilemmas surrounding prostate cancer. These dilemmas include the 40 % histologic incidence of invasive cancer in men in comparison to a 3 % death rate, the extraordinary slow doubling time of four to five years for untreated early clinical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the first book to present an overview of the exciting new cardiac imaging technique of tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE). In order to understand the background of this technique, it is necessary to compare the physical properties of blood, which reflects ultrasound poorly but moves with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sinus node inhibitors
A new concept in angina pectoris
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Although surgical and catheter-based revascularization techniques have substan tially improved today's therapeutic potential in ischemic heart disease, in the majority of patients treatment will be conservative for a number of reasons, the cost-effectiveness of non-pharmacological approaches being...
Treatment with Gallopamil
Results of recent research on calcium antagonism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Calcium antagonists are currently the most extensively investigated drugs for the treatment of heart disease. They are used worldwide with great success and a comparatively low incidence of adverse reactions. The most prevalent and threatening diseases in modem industrialized societies - the various...
by G. Steinbeck, B.-E. Strauer, E. Erdmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Congenital Heart Defects
Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume 2 Less Common Defects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
-Numerous illustrations help the reader visualize the anatomy and key operative steps
-Written in an accessible, easy-to-read format that allows the reader to understand the steps for the surgical procedure
-Comprehensively cover all the material necessary to make competent decisions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The primary goal of this book is to survey issues pertaining to coronary venous retroperfusion, a potentially beneficial treatment of myocardial ischemia. Since attention will be focused on the myocardium, its normal or deranged antegrade perfusion will be discussed first, along with factors affecting...
Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia
Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
H. HAFNER Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany The present volume contains the lectures and invited discussions of the sympo sium on "Risk and protective factors in schizophrenia - towards a conceptual model of the disease process", which was...