Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Endothelium and Acute Cardiovascular Events
Ricardo J. Esper (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Roberto A. Nordaby (Professor of Cardiology, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jorge Curotto Grasiosi (Hospital Militar Central, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Diego Cordero (Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI), Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Jorge O. Vilariño (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 2. Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia
Roberto Volpe (Italian National Council of Research (CNR), Rome, Italy) and Arrigo F. G. Cicero (Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Diseases Research Unit, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Chapter 3. Angina Pectoris in Women
Cinzia Zuchi, Isabella Tritto and Giuseppe Ambrosio (Division of Cardiology, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy)
Chapter 4. Major Clinical Aspects of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Jelena P. Seferović Mitrović (Department of Endocriniology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia), Petar M. Seferović (Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Servia, Belgrade, Serbia), Arsen D. Ristić (Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia), Katarina Lalić (Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia), Aleksandra Jotić (Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia), Ivan Milinković (Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia), Dejan Simeunović (Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia) and Nebojša M. Lalic (Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia)
Chapter 5. Chronic Chagasic Cardiomyopathy
G. Risso, F. Azzato and J. Milei (Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiológicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 6. Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Mechanisms and Management
Anna Vittoria Mattioli (Departmnt of Life Sciences, Lab of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Chapter 7. Diagnostic Use of Echostress
Marina Deljanin (Institute of Cardiology, Niska Banja, Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Serbia)
Chapter 8. Hypertension in the Elderly
Claudio A. Bellido (Department of Internal Medicine Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Eduardo J. Rusak (Head of the National Career in Arterial Hypertension of The Argentine Society of Hypertension (SAHA))
Chapter 9. Current Advances in the Chronobiology of Blood Pressure
Matilde E. Otero-Losada and J. Milei (Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiológicas, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 10. Fetal, Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Insights in the New Millennium
Paolo Guccione (Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Roma, Italy), Maddalena Milioni (Unità di Terapia Intensiva Neonatale (UTIN), Perugia, Italy) and Stefania Troiani (Unità di Terapia Intensiva Neonatale (UTIN), Perugia, Italy)
Chapter 11. Percutaneous Cryoablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Jorge González-Zuelgaray (Sanatorio de la Trinidad San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Fernando de Valais (Sanatorio de la Trinidad San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Claudio Muratore (Sanatorio de la Trinidad San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina), América Pérez (Fundación PRONETAC, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ariel Szyszko (Fundación PRONETAC, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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