Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (Paperback)

Product Description: Cardiovascular heart disease mortality in African Americans is the highest of all major racial/ethnic subpopulations in the United States. Examining race and ethnicity, Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minorities will reveal that there are unacceptable healthcare disparities in risk factor prevalence, disease states, and cardiovascular outcomes in the United States. Written by a team of experts, Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minorities examines to what degree biomedical and scientific literature can clarify the impact of genetic variation versus environment as related to cardiovascular disease. Chapters illustrate the magnitude of cardiovascular and metabolic disparities and the effect of environment on diseases.

Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Contemporary Cardiology) (Hardcover)

Product Description: Revised and updated, Cardiology Secrets, 3rd Edition has the answers. Comprehensive, yet easy to read, Dr. Levine presents all the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions in this popular Secret Series volume. A two-color page layout, portable size, and a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in cardiology help you better meet the challenges you face today. You'll find all the features you rely on from the Secrets Series®-a question-and-answer format, lists, mnemonics, tables and an informal tone-that make reference fast and easy. Plus, new imaging modalities and pharmacologic agents keep you on the cusp of the latest advances.

Cardiology Secrets (Paperback)

Product Description: Freedom from Disease provides a comprehensive program for effectively reducing insulin levels and maintaining excellent health. Peter Morgan Kash and Jay Lombard, D.O., will show you:

How and why insulin is the key to health and illness
How insulin resistance arises even in people who don’t have diabetes
How to assess your insulin levels
The real connection between stress and insulin
A food and supplement program that will keep your insulin levels in check, protect you against a host of diseases, and help you feel your best

Freedom from Disease: The Breakthrough Approach to Preventing Cancer, Heart Disease, Alzheimer's, and Depression by Controlling Insulin (Paperback)

Diseases of the Heart (Paperback)

Product Description: Carrying the Heart is one of those remarkable books that informs and enlightens and entertains on almost every page. In this book, Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi explores our inner organ systems:  The Digestive System, Respiratory System, Reproductive System, and the Cardiovascular System.  As with all of his books, this one roams widely and draws abundantly from episodes of the history of medicine, examples from literature, philosophic reflections, humor and biomedical concepts. It aims to amuse and instruct, to enhance our understanding of our internal anatomical organs and systems, and how our understanding of these systems have evolved over history. This is particulary relevant today, when organ transplants and surgical "remodeling" of the body threaten to reduce human nature to a mere mechanism. 

Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us (Hardcover)

Product Description: To the adult cardiologist, the language of congenital heart disease can be confusing and the spectrum of disease bewildering. Many find the prospect of meeting an adult with complex congenital heart disease in the emergency department disturbing, and rightly so. This book aims to dispel confusion and equip cardiology trainees, general cardiologists, and acute medicine physicians with a sound understanding of the principles of the physiology and management of adult congenital heart disease, so that they can treat emergencies and recognize the need for referral to a specialist unit.

Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Cardiology) (Paperback)

Adult Congenital Heart Disease (American Heart Association Clinical Series) (Hardcover)

Product Description: With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver doctors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage to their organs due to ischaemia, and as a consequence, some organs do not work initially and some none at all. The proportion of such transplants has increased dramatically in recent years--25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006, highlighting how much progress has been made.

Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death (Hardcover)

Product Description: Heart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and heart failure is the commonest reason for hospital admission in the over 65s.

A Practical Guide to Heart Failure in Older People is essential reading for geriatricians, cardiologists, general hospital physicians, family practitioners and specialist nurses.

• Specifically addresses the particular needs of the elderly, a largely ignored group who constitute the majority of patients with heart failure

• Presents a concise yet comprehensive account of the evidence relating to the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart failure in this population

• Improves awareness of the various roles within the management team

A Practical Guide to Heart Failure in Older People (Hardcover)