Overview
- Provides a concise overview of aortic diseases
- Reviews potential treatment strategies for aortic diseases
- Written by an international authorship of experts in the area
Part of the book series: Current Cardiovascular Therapy (CCT, volume 7)
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About this book
This book is driven by the considerable progress made by novel imaging techniques in understanding the pathophysiology and evolution of aortic disease and its diagnosis. Despite the lack of symptoms in stable conditions, most aortic diseases have a high morbidity and mortality. New therapeutic strategies such as endovascular treatment and surgical techniques have appeared to improve conventional surgery in advanced phases of the disease, but until recently, medical treatment has focused on the control of cardiovascular risk factors using beta-blockers to reduce aortic wall stress by reducing blood pressure and heart rate.
Pharmacotherapy in Aortic Disease updates the reader on the new medical treatment that are changing the natural history of these diseases. Leading experts have created a critical in-depth, yet concise, analysis of the available medical treatments for different aortic disease entities. Both basic research studies and clinical trials discussed in this book serve as a base for improving therapeutic management, delaying the need for surgery, and prolonging survival in these patients.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pharmacotherapy in Aortic Disease
Editors: Arturo Evangelista, Christoph A. Nienaber
Series Title: Current Cardiovascular Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09555-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09554-7Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09555-4Published: 18 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2946-8183
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8191
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Pharmacotherapy, Cardiac Surgery