Cardiomyopathies; causes, effects, and treatment.

9781606921937

Cardiomyopathies; causes, effects, and treatment.

Ed. by Peter H. Bruno and Matthew T. Giordano.

Nova Biomedical Books

2009

560 pages

$129.00

Hardcover

RC685

Cardiology scientists describe their research or review the literature relating to a family of heart diseases in which the heart becomes abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened, impairing the ability of the heart muscles to pump and receive blood. Distinguishing expert commentary and short communications from the papers, the anthology looks at such topics as dilated cardiomyopathy, diagnostic and prognostic cardiac imaging, sudden cardiac death, non-transplant surgical options, new radiotracers for the molecular imaging of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, the expressions of matrix-metallo-proteinases and their tissue-specific inhibitors in idiopathic canine dilative cardiomyopathy, and pediatric cardiomyopathy.

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