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Verlag	:	Springer Netherland
Buchreihe	:	Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (Bd. 229)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	29. 02. 2000
Seiten	:	498
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
Gewicht	:	2000 g
ISBN	:	9780792362142
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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One: Physiology and Pathophysiology.- Section one: Basic Research: From Gene to Phenotype.- Cardiovascular molecular genetics.- Dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia: From gene to phenotype.- Heart failure: From gene to therapy.- Section two: Autonomic Nervous System.- Autonomic Nervous System: Physiology and pathophysiology.- Methods to assess baroreflex sensitivity as a measure of the activity of the autonomic nervous system.- Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in cardiovascular diseases.- Therapeutical options to influence the autonomic nervous system.- Two: ECG aspects investigated by different methods.- Section one: P-wave and QRS.- The signal averaged P-wave.- Wenckebach pattern of ventricular late potentials.- Detection of QRS-variability.- Section two: QT-variability/QT dispersion.- QT-Dispersion: Role in clinical decision making.- Dynamic QT-interval analysis.- QT-variability: Clincial results and prognostic significance.- Heart rate dependency of QT-interval in congenital and acquired prolonged ventricular repolarisation: Long-term analysis by Holter Monitoring.- Section three: T-wave alternans/repolarization.- Modern approaches to assessment of ventricular repolarisation.- Dynamicity of T-wave alternans: Measurement and role in sudden death.- Macrovolt T-wave alternans: pathophysiology and link with repolarization-dispersion.- T-wave alternans and variability: prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic implications.- Three: Focus on: Ischemic Heart Disease.- Non-invasive quantification/localisation of myocardial ischemia.- Ambulatory ECG, myocardial ischemia and risk stratification.- Post thrombolysis/post PTCA-monitoring.- Interactive Holter-monitoring of transient ischemic episodes.- Silent ischemia: The 1998 status: new observations on triggers, pathophysiological mechanisms and circadian variations.- Circadian variation in myocardial ischemia and infarction.- Chronopharmacology — Implications for diagnosis and treatment.- Beta blockers following acute myocardial infarction.- The United States Multicenter Study of enhanced external counterpulsation (MUST-EECP).- Four: Methods.- Section one: Quality control and standardization of monitoring techniques.- Heart rate variability: A simple methodology with several unrecognized technical and methodological problems.- Quality control and standardization: High resolution ECG.- Section two: Exercise ECG.- Diagnosis of myocardial viability: Contribution of the ECG.- Exercise testing for risk stratification.- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: cardiovascular and respiratory limitations detected by exercise gas exchange.- Section three: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.- White-coat hypertension: State of the art.- Should antihypertensive treatment be guided by casual measurement or through Ambultory Blood Pressure Monitoring.- Non-invasive pulse wave velocity as a method to evaluate physical properties of the large arteries in aging and hypertension.- Prognostic implications of blood pressure variability.- Section four: Magnetocardiography.- Magnetocardiographic technology: State of the art.- Ischemia and hibernation in magnetocardiography.- MCG at the turn of the millennium.- Five: Analysis Techniques.- Section one: Non-linear dynamics.- Methods of non-linear dynamics.- Heart rate variability and non-linear dynamics.- Symbolic dynamics.- Section two: Newer signal detection and analysis techniques.- Neural classification in high-resolution ECG signal processing.- Cardiovascular system identification.- Maximum likelihood analysis in ECG signalprocessing.- What can cardiac computer models tell us about arrhythmogenesis.

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