Books in the American Heart Association Monograph Series series

A thorough exploration of the interaction between erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and the pulmonary vasculature in a variety of disease states--an important topic not addressed by other books.

Exercise testing has become an integral component of the management of patients with chronic heart failure.

In 21 chapters the three main sections of the book set out to analyze and suggest the means of assessing complex factors that cause obesity.

Birth is a traumatic transition of environments. Once the placental oxygen supply ceases, the foetus has only minutes to establish pulmonary oxygen transport. This work explores lung growth and development, vascular cell growth and differentiation, and the mechanisms of haemodynamic control.

In this book, an international group of investigators from a broad array of clinical and basic disciplines present the ideas and concepts in the foreground of cerebrovascular disease. Included in their discussion are perspectives on topics that continue to guide current investigations.

Edited by Valentin Fuster, former Chairman of the American Heart Associationa s Committee on Vascular Lesions, Assessing and Modifying the Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque explores the cutting--edge developments in a steadily advancing field.

The objective of this text is to synthesise the research based clinical treatment strategies that have been found to be most effective in the clinical management of heart failure as a disease. Incorporating recommendations from state of the art guidelines, the text comprehensively addresses both in-patient management of acute exacerbations, and out-patient management to improve survival, quality of life, and functional status. The editors are active members of the American Heart Association and influential councils on clinical cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and have assembled a team of contributors prominent in the field of heart failure and transplantation. They aim, through this publication, to translate the findings of recent research into a practical clinical framework for physicians caring for patients on a daily basis.

The chapters in this monograph detail the past, present and potential future of markers used for the detection of myocardial injury and for risk assessment as part of a cardiovascular disease work-up strategy.