Beschreibung
Translational medicine underpins vascular medicine. It is fundamental to understanding how we treat patients with vascular disease and more importantly, how to prevent it. It is the rationale for drug design and production. Vascular medicine and translational medicine will take over and become the main reason for referring patients to hospital. Therefore, hospital-based clinicians working with basic scientists need to know about translational medicine, which educates and informs them about vascular medicine and how management should be based. This book is a primer for translational vascular medicine and discusses the evolving and exciting areas of basic science applied to vascular medicine. The book is based on the third vascular biology conference held at The Royal College of Physicians in 2008. It provides a large amount of new basic and clinical information and the contributors are world leaders.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabePreface Foreword Section 1: Vascular Biology 1. The Biology of Endothelin 2. Endogenous inhibitors of NO synthesis 3. Pericytes: Adaptable vascular progenitors 4. Free radicals and oxidant stress Section 2: Complications and Treatments in Human Vascular Disease 5. Genomics and cardiovascular disease 6. Surgical trauma and graft performance in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery Section 3: Clinical and Basic Aspects of Vascular Medicine 7. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 8. Inflammation in pulmonary arterial hypertension 9. Cell therapy for cardiovascular disease 10. Clinical applications of CV Imaging 11. Cardiovascular disease in women Session 4: Surgical intervention for Vascular Complications 12. Nonpharmacological treatment of peripheral vascular disease 13. Surgical approaches to aneurysm repair 14. Delivering improving treatment for cardiovascular disease
