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Informationen zum Autor Andrew J Peacock - Professor of Medicine! Consultant Respiratory Physician and Director! Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit! Regional Heart and Lung Centre!Golden Jubilee National Hospital! Glasgow! UK Robert Naeije - Professor of Physiology and Medicine! and Consultant at the Department of Cardiology of the Erasme Academic Hospital of the Free University of Brussels! Belgium Lewis J Rubin - Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Emeritus Director! Pulmonary Vascular Center at the University of California! San Diego School of Medicine! La Jolla! CA! USA Klappentext 'This book is at the vanguard of its type in the field of pulmonary circulation! and it achieves the editors' ambitious goal of providing a balance between scientific review and clinically relevant comprehensive guidelines for the busy practising physician'. New England Journal of Medicine! from a review of the second edition. Authoritative! comprehensive and definitive! Pulmonary Circulation builds on the success of its previous two editions by providing practising respiratory physicians with a highly-ordered! unique reference work on the structure! function and pathophysiology of the pulmonary circulation. New for the third edition: * Thoroughly revised with comprehensive coverage from diagnosis and clinical evaluation of pulmonary hypertension! to imaging techniques! disorders and treatment * A new truly global team of expert editors! authors and key opinion leaders provide a wealth of detail on the latest developments and issues * New chapters! such as: paediatrics! critical care! special environments including high altitude and underwater * More quality chapters! authors! illustrations with thorough and thoughtful referencing make this book a contemporary essential reference text Pulmonary Circulation remains an essential resource for pulmonary hypertension specialists and should prove invaluable in all respiratory! cardiac and intensive care units. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Function of the Normal Pulmonary Circulation & / Pulmonary vascular function. / Right heart function. / Pathophysiology & Pathology of Pulmonary Vascular / Pathology of pulmonary vascular disease. / Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and hypertensio / Pulmonary vascular remodeling & pathobiology of pu / Clinical Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension: Di / Clinical features. / Echocardiography. / Imaging: Radiology. / Imaging: Emerging modalities (MR ! PET and others) / Exercise Testing: Six Minute Walk / Exercise Testing: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing / Blood Biomarkers. / Cardiac catheterisation of patients with pulmonary / An integrated approach to the diagnosis and clinic / Disorders Associated with Pulmonary Hypertension / Classification and clinical features of pulmonary / Pulmonary arterial hypertension / Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension pathophysiologic / Familial primary pulmonary hypertension and gene / Pulmonary hypertension associated with connective / Pulmonary ...
