This new edition of the Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases offers information vitally revised and enhanced from the first edition. It provides core cardiovascular knowledge that is as useful to medical students, biologists and physicists as it is to biomedical engineers, biochemists and pharmacologists. It includes fascinating historical information designed to motivate new interest in solving problems regarding the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management strategies to a wide variety of heart diseases. And it contains new chapters that thoroughly discuss all recent controversies in cardiovascular therapeutics. With a format and style that allow for easy reading and quick extraction of information, this reference is indispensable to all manner of medical and biomedical students, researchers, practitioners, pharmacologists, and engineers.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
XXII, 900 p. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
Maße
Höhe: 266 mm
Breite: 198 mm
Dicke: 62 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-60761-218-6 (9781607612186)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-60761-219-3
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dr. M. Gabriel Khan is a cardiologist at the Ottawa Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He graduated MB, BCh, with First-Class Honors at The Queen's University of Belfast, was appointed Staff Physician in charge of a Clinical Teaching Unit at the Ottawa General Hospital and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians of London and Canada. His books include On Call Cardiology, 3rd edition (2006), Heart Disease Diagnosis and Therapy, 2nd edition (2006), Rapid ECG Interpretation, 2nd edition (2003), Cardiac and Pulmonary Management (1993), Medical Diagnosis and Therapy (1994), Heart Attacks, Hypertension and Heart Drugs (1986), and Heart Trouble Encyclopedia (1996).
Dr. Khan's books have been translated into numerous languages. He has built a reputation as a clinician-teacher and has become an internationally acclaimed cardiologist through his writings.
