Providing a summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology, this text makes a special effort to include comprehensive diagrams and drawings, as well as teaching tables, and also to keep the size of the second edition within the modest limits of the first edition. The book remains divided into five parts. The first part is a general introduction to the new terminology. The second part is devoted to the normal structure of the heart and vessels. Parts Three and Four deal with physiopathology. One of the important contributions of molecular biology to cardiology is a better understanding of the general process of adaptation of the heart and vessels to a permanent mechanical overloading. Such a process is generally called remodelling, and results from co-ordinate changes in the expression of the genes. The last part of the book includes information on gene and cellular therapy.
