Bernard Swynghedauw - Böcker

This volume provides a short summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology. With this in mind, special efforts have been made to present many comprehensive schemes and drawings, as well as teaching tables. The five parts of the book provide a general introduction to the new language of biology; the normal structure of the heart and blood vessels; the physiopathology and the new therapeutic avenues that have been opened up by the new biology. The text provides practical examples to illustrate the clinical interest of the new approach.

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.

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology. The five parts of the book provide a general introduction to the new language of biology; the physiopathology and the new therapeutic avenues that have been opened up by the new biology.

Molecular Cardiology for the Cardiologist, Second Edition provides a short, easily readable summary of what the new biology brings to cardiology.

This book describes the fundamental process of senescence, and reviews a new concept developed by a number of research groups that is based on cellular senescence and its secretome. This concept provides a basic explanation of the main physiological and pathological features of senescence, and delineates possibilities for “treating” it.Following an introduction to the emerging medical landscape, the increasing incidence of a new epidemiological group (age-related “chronic non-transmissible diseases”), and the multiple origins of aging, the book explores and characterizes the senescent cell, which is linked to benign and pathological age-related manifestations. In turn, the closing chapters discuss how to “treat” or “prevent” the aging process, underscoring the central role of physical exercise and caloric reduction as compared to new senolytic approaches. Appendices are also provided, and address circadian rhythms, telomere shortening, diabetic cardiomyopathy, and senescence in plants and bacteria.Given its scope, the book will primarily be of interest to geriatricians, but will also appeal to a wider range of clinicians.