Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock
Denise M. Zingrone, D.O., FACC, and David H. Hsi, MD, FACC, FASE (Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey, USA)

Chapter 2. Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Antonios Karanasos, MD, Konstantinos Toutouzas, MD, PhD, Jors van der Sijde, MD, Nienke van Ditzhuijzen, MSc, and Evelyn Regar, MD, PhD (Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Chapter 3. Psychosocial Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease
Carla Favoccia, Giada Pietrabissa, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Mariella Montano, Gianandrea Bertone, Annamaria Titon, Ferruccio Nibbio and Luca Gondoni (Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Saint Joseph Hospital, Verbania, Italy)

Chapter 4. Risk of Myocardial Infarction in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Prostatic Diseases
Claudio de Lucia, Grazia Daniela Femminella, Klara Komici, Giuseppe Rengo and Nicola Ferrara (Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University Federico II of Naples)

Chapter 5. Albuminuria: Marker or Maker of Atrial Fibrillation and Mortality in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Rafel Sanjuan PhD, and Maria L. Blasco PhD (Coronary Care Unit, University Clinic Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)

Chapter 6. Effect and Mechanism of Luteolin on Cardiac Protection and Anti-Apoptosis in Rat Cardiomyocytes with Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Dongye Li and Haochen Xuan (Institution of cardiovascular disease, Xuzhou Medical College, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China)

Chapter 7. Essential Roles of Monocytes/Macrophages in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Makoto Orii, MD, Toshio Imanishi, MD, PhD, and Takashi Akasaka, MD, PhD (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan)

Chapter 8. Comprehensive Management in the Acute Phase for Improving the Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Kiyoshi Kume, Yoshinori Yasuoka and Tatsuya Sasaki (Cardiovascular Division, Osaka Minami Medical Center, Osaka, Japan)

Chapter 9. Address to Critical Issues in a Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction
Makoto Suzuki (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan)

Chapter 10. Management of Unstable Angina/Non-ST Segment Myocardial Infarction
Sachin Mehta and Tahir Mian (Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, TX, USA)

Index