Collateral Circulation of the Heart - Couverture rigide

Seiler, Christian

 
9781848823419: Collateral Circulation of the Heart

Synopsis

The sober explanation for this book is a call by the Springer-Verlag, London, to edit a publication on 'The functional relevance of the collateral circulation' of the heart. Alternatively, it could be 'sold' as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of the coronary circulation, which was itself meant to diminish the amount of 'useless' energy. Such a process of reducing disarray in a system with the aim of grasping it better is related to simplification, which carries the risk of introducing error. This can be exemplified by the historic view of angina pectoris, which used to be simplified as being always fatal, thus obscuring for nearly two centuries the view of a 'self-healing' mechanism such as the collateral circulation of the heart. It would be na?]ve, to assume the present work to be free of erroneous oversimplification, because the very nature of scientific work is related to generating (simple) hypotheses with their subsequent falsification. In that context and bluntly, my primary interest in the field of the collateral circulation was not initiated with a vision of eradicating the consequences of coronary artery disease (CAD) by promoting the growth of natural bypasses. The time for such sizeable ideas had passed in the 1970s with the start of the work by Wolfgang Schaper.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This practical and authoritative reference covers the clinical aspects of coronary collateral vessels as well those of physiology and basic science. It includes many stunning illustrations that depict the huge variability in collateral vessel formation.

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9781849968379: Collateral Circulation of the Heart

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1849968373 ISBN 13 :  9781849968379
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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