Farmakologi seperti yang diajarkan kepada mahasiswa kedokteran dan penyedia garis depan junior selalu dianggap sebagai mata pelajaran yang sulit untuk dipahami. Buku teks dan formularium farmakologi biasanya berpusat pada obat. Sementara buku teks klinis dan pedoman pengobatan berpusat pada penyakit dan memberikan rekomendasi pengobatan, mereka jarang membahas mengapa perawatan ini dipilih. Sel…
This book is designed for clinical cardiologists and other physicians working with cardiac patients, where specific specialized teams of cardio-oncologists are not available and who are called to perform a clinical consultation to evaluate both the cardiac condition and the eligibility for chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment, and to evaluate if a cancer treatment produces toxic effects on a …
The unique biology of cardiac fibroblasts and related cells, such as cardiac myofibroblasts and valvular interstitial cells, distinguish them from other fibroblastic cells, a concept that is only beginning to be widely appreciated. Further, the natural signals that stimulate and inhibit cardiac fibrosis within these cells are not well understood. This volume compiles articles that address the m…
This book is an essential guide to the medical treatment of the cardiac patient and presents core principles of cardiovascular therapeutics as well as drug recommendations. Major classes of drugs are featured, including beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, calcium antagonists, diuretics, and antiplatelet agents and unique insights into the controversies surrounding the use of specific drugs are explo…
This book presents a collection of expert reviews on different subcellular compartments of the cardiomyocyte, addressing fundamental questions such as how these compartments are assembled during development, how they are changed in and by disease and which signaling pathways have been implicated in these processes so far. As such, it offers the first overview of the cell biology of heart diseas…
This handbook is an ideal, up-to-date guide to the application of catheter-based interventions across the entire patient age range, from fetal life through to adulthood. Clear instruction is offered on techniques of vascular access, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, pulmonary valve implantation and the hybrid approach, as well as miscellaneous o…
This second edition is adheres to the guiding principles of the first edition while serving as a useful and up to date manual on the theory, performance and application of CCTA. Since the publication of the first edition of this work, cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) has come a long way. It is now a main stream, well established cardiac diagnostic imaging modality with wide spread acceptance and a…
This book reveals why carbon is playing such an increasingly prominent role as a sensing material. The various steps that transform a raw material in a sensing device are thoroughly presented and critically discussed. The authors deal with all aspects of carbon-based sensors, starting from the various hybridization and allotropes of carbon, with specific focus on micro and nano sized carbons (e…
Tumbuhan adalah salah satu sumber kekayaan obat terbaik di antara obat-obatan alami. Minat memanennya untuk kesejahteraan umat manusia telah meningkat dengan meningkatnya permintaan obat-obatan untuk penyakit-penyakit yang menjadi perhatian utama dan yang muncul dengan gaya hidup modern. Tetapi tantangannya adalah memastikan keamanan dan keberlanjutan obat-obatan tersebut dibandingkan obat-obat…
pendekatan kombinatorial untuk mengatasi tantangan seperti resistensi obat, atau kemanjuran yang kurang optimal. Pengembangan terapi kombinasi menghadapi beberapa tantangan: karakterisasi sinergi antara dua entitas kimia, definisi dosis yang tepat dan jadwal untuk memaksimalkan kemanjuran tanpa meningkatkan tingkat efek samping, yang meningkatkan tingkat kerumitannya secara signifikan. Untuk me…