Clinical Physiology of the Venous System

Clinical Physiology of the Venous System is a comprehensive overview of vein physiology.
- Presents data in the fields of venous physiology, pharmacology and venous diseases as well as the field of phlebology, which has seen rapid and important progress in the last decade.
- Recent developments in venous disorders are covered with regard to pathophysiology; most modern diagnostic methods and therapies.
- Venous tone regulation data is presented with a focus on neural; hormonal; local and myogenic control of venous smooth muscle. Special attention was paid to endothelium-derived vasoactive factors involved in the regulation of venous tone.
- Take home messages at the beginning of each chapter for quick review.
- List of key abbreviations used in the book.
- Well illustrated with teaching tables.
- Useful for any physician, researcher or student interested in vein physiology.

List of contents

1 Hydrodynamic And Rheologic Laws Applied To The Venous Circulation.- 2 Veins And Their Functions.- 3. Venous Wall - Morphological And Functional Aspects.- 4. Regulation Of The Venous Tone.- 5 Varicose Disease.- 6 Thromboembolic Venous Disease.- 7 Chronic Venous Insufficiency Of The Inferior Limbs (C.V.I.).- 8 Congenital Disturbances Of Vascular Genesis.- 9 Miscellaneous Veins Pathology.

Summary

Clinical Physiology of the Venous System is a comprehensive overview of vein physiology. - Presents data in the fields of venous physiology, pharmacology and venous diseases as well as the field of phlebology, which has seen rapid and important progress in the last decade.

Product details

• Authors: J Avram, Jecu Aurel Avram, Francisc Schneider, Francisc A Schneider, Francisc A. Schneider, Francisco A. Schneider, Ioana Raluc Siska, Ioana Raluca Siska
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9781402074110
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-7411-0
• No. of pages: 303
• Weight: 644 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 303 p.
• Series: Basic Science for the Cardiologist; Basic Science for the Cardiolo; Basic Science for the Cardiolo; Basic Science for the Cardiologist
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; C, Medicine, Cardiology