Pulmonary Hypertension

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hill, Nicholas S. (Editor), Farber, Harrison W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology™
• Subjects: Medicine.; Angiology.; Cardiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Rheumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

This timely volume addresses the areas of pathophysiology and therapy of pulmonary hypertension, which have seen exciting developments over the past decade. The discoveries of endothelin overexpression as well as prostacyclin and nitric oxide deficiency in association with pulmonary hypertension hav...