Pharmacotherapy for Cardiac Diseases
• Tobacco use • Dyslipidemia • Overweight (body mass index > 25 kg/m2) • Diabetes mellitus • Age (>45 years for men; >55 years for women) • Physical inactivity • Family history…
Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices in Pediatric Patients
Fig. 11.1 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation . This is a portable bedside cardiopulmonary bypass circuit, consisting of a pump head and oxygenator, with standard pressure and bubble monitoring alarms. The system…
Cardiac Devices and Technologies: Continued Rapid Rates of Development
Keyword Number of patent applications 2015 2008 2004 Cardiac 93,942 46,946 18,920 Cardiac surgery 5,404 2331 1015 Cardiology 14,798 3961 1480 Cardiac electrophysiology 869 213 79 Cardiovascular stents 313 137…
Clinical Trial Requirements for Cardiac Devices
Fig. 43.1 Timeline of medical device development ©2013 Heart Valves: From Design to Clinical Implantation, Clinical trial requirements for cardiac valves, Iaizzo JC, Lovas ATF. With kind permission of Springer…
Attitudinally Correct Cardiac Anatomy
Fig. 2.1 Illustration showing the anatomic position. Regardless of the position of the body or organ upon examination, the anatomy of an organ or the whole should be described as…
The Pericardium
Fig. 9.1 Posterior view of the pericardial sac, with the anterior surface and heart cut away. One can see that the great vessels of the heart penetrate through the pericardium,…
Cell Transplantation for Ischemic Heart Disease
3. Thomson JA, Itskovitz-Eldor J, Shapiro SS et al (1998) Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science 282:1145–1147 4. Nussbaum J, Minami E, Laflamme MA et al (2007)…
Cardiac Development
Fig. 3.1 The four major contributors to heart development illustrated in the chick model system: first heart field, second heart field, cardiac neural crest, and the proepicardial organ. (A) Day…
Echocardiography in Cardiac Surgery
, Zivile Valuckiene and Petros Nihoyannopoulos (1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Introduction Echocardiography is a widely used non-invasive imaging modality which provides…
Mitral Valve Surgery
and K. M. John Chan (1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Introduction In Western developed countries, mitral valve surgery usually involves degenerative or Barlow’s…
