Textbook of Vascular Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Touyz, Rhian M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Delles, Christian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Cardiology.; Vascular surgery.; Epidemiology.; Human genetics.; Human physiology.; Molecular biology.; Vascular Surgery.; Human Genetics.; Human Physiology.; Molecular Medicine.

This textbook focuses on the vascular biology and physiology that underlie vascular disorders in clinical medicine. Vascular biomedicine is a rapidly growing field as new molecular mechanisms of vascular health and disease are unraveled. Many of the major cardiovascular diseases including coronary a...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Anatomy and Physiology
• Chapter 1: Anatomy and Pharmacology of Vessels
• Chapter 2: Physiology of Vessels
• Chapter 3: Cell Biology of Vessels
• Chapter 4: Stem Cell Biology and the Cardiovascular System
• Chapter 5: The Lymphatic System
• Chapter 6: Imaging the vascular wall; from microscope to virtual reality
• Chapter 7: Clinical Cardiovascular Imaging
• Part 2: Pharmacology and Signalling
• Chapter 8: Vascular Signalling
• Chapter 9: Vasoactive Peptides: Renin Angiotensin System
• Chapter 10: Aldosterone
• Chapter 11: Nitric Oxide
• Chapter 12: Reactive Oxygen Species
• Chapter 13: TGF-beta in Vascular Pathobiology
• Chapter 14: miRNA and IncRNA in the Vascular System
• Chapter 15: Microparticles and Exosomes in Cell-Cell Communication
• Part 3: Pathophysiology of Vascular Diseases
• Chapter 16: Genomics of Hypertension
• Chapter 17: Endothelial Dysfunction
• Chapter 18: Vascular Remodelling
• Chapter 19: Vascular Stiffness
• Chapter 20: Atherosclerosis
• Chapter 21: Inflammation and Immunity in Vascular Diseases
• Chapter 22: Diagnostic and therapeutic targeting of inflammation
• Chapter 23: Perivascular Adipose Tissue
• Chapter 24: Vascular Biology of Chemotherapeutic Drugs
• Chapter 25: Coronary Microvascular Disease
• Chapter 26: Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment: Preclinical Aspects
• Chapter 27: Ethnicity and Cardiovascular Disease
• Part 4: Clinical Aspects
• Chapter 28: Epidemiology of Vascular Diseases
• Chapter 29: Early Vascular Ageing and Healthy Vascular Ageing
• Chapter 30: Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease
• Chapter 31: Hypertension
• Chapter 32 Diabetic Retinopathy
• Chapter 33: Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Chapter 34: Pre-eclampsia
• Chapter 35: Stable Coronary Artery Syndromes
• Chapter 36: Heart Failure: HFrEF
• Chapter 37 Heart Failure: HFpEF
• Chapter 38 Renal Disease
• Chapter 39 Obesity
• Chapter 40 Diabetes
• Chapter 41 Pulmonary
• Hypertension
• Chapter 42 Cerebral Small Vessel disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment
• Chapter 43 Stroke
• Chapter 44 Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Chapter 45 Vascular malformations and tumours.