Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases

This new edition of this classic reference offers information revised and enhanced from the first edition. It includes core cardiovascular knowledge, fascinating historical information, and new chapters on all recent controversies in therapeutics.This new edition of the Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases offers information vitally revised and enhanced from the first edition. It provides core cardiovascular knowledge that is as useful to medical students, biologists and physicists as it is to biomedical engineers, biochemists and pharmacologists. It includes fascinating historical information designed to motivate new interest in solving problems regarding the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management strategies to a wide variety of heart diseases. And it contains new chapters that thoroughly discuss all recent controversies in cardiovascular therapeutics. With a format and style that allow for easy reading and quick extraction of information, this reference is indispensable to all manner of medical and biomedical students, researchers, practitioners, pharmacologists, and engineers.