Handbook of Pathology and Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Disease

• Main Authors: Factor, Stephen M. (Author), Lamberti-Abadi, Maria A. (Author), Abadi, Jacobo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 240
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Autopsy derives from the greek word autopsia, which means act of seeing with one’s own eyes. It remains the most objective and accurate method to understand human. disease. Unfortunately, the volume of autopsies in teaching hospitals has decreased dramatically over the past years. The crucial factor...

Table of Contents:

• Practical Cardiac Anatomy: From A to Z
• Atherosclerotic Heart Disease and Ischemia
• Diabetes and the Heart
• Cardiomyopathies
• Valvulopathies
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Endocarditis
• Myocarditis
• Cardiac Tumors
• The Pericardium
• Aortic Aneurysms
• Collagen Vascular Diseases and Vasculitis
• Medicine, Law and the Heart.