Human Heart, Cosmic Heart

Author: Dr. Thomas Cowan
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603586202
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
"[This book] deserves to be in everyone’s library. . . . It’s loaded with great information, and it can save your life or the life of someone you love."—Dr. Joseph Mercola "This book is life-changing for those trying to understand their own bodies, or those of loved ones, and it’s truly transformative in the hands of medical professionals, especially young doctors."—Foreword Reviews Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad—bright, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism—when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price—two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was—and continues to be—practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice in New Hampshire and, later, San Francisco. For years, as he raised his three children, suffered the setback of divorce, and struggled with a heart condition, he remained intrigued by the work of Price and Steiner and, in particular, with Steiner’s provocative claim that the heart is not a pump. Determined to practice medicine in a way that promoted healing rather than compounded ailments, Cowan dedicated himself to understanding whether Steiner’s claim could possibly be true. And if Steiner was correct, what, then, is the heart? What is its true role in the human body? In this deeply personal, rigorous, and riveting account, Dr. Cowan offers up a daring claim: Not only was Steiner correct that the heart is not a pump, but our understanding of heart disease—with its origins in the blood vessels—is completely wrong. And this gross misunderstanding, with its attendant medications and risky surgeries, is the reason heart disease remains the most common cause of death worldwide. In Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, Dr. Thomas Cowan presents a new way of understanding the body’s most central organ. He offers a new look at what it means to be human and how we can best care for ourselves—and one another.

Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine

Author: Vahid Serpooshan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030200477
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the use of regenerative medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It provides a much-needed review of the rapid development and evolution of bio-fabrication techniques to engineer cardiovascular tissues as well as their use in clinical settings. The book incorporates recent advances in the biology, biomaterial design, and manufacturing of bioengineered cardiovascular tissue with their clinical applications to bridge the basic sciences to current and future cardiovascular treatment. The book begins with an examination of state-of-the-art cellular, biomaterial, and macromolecular technologies for the repair and regeneration of diseased heart tissue. It discusses advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering of cardiac microtissues using acoustic assembly. Subsequent chapters explore the clinical applications and translational potential of current technologies such as cardiac patch-based treatments, cell-based regenerative therapies, and injectable hydrogels. The book examines how these methodologies are used to treat a variety of cardiovascular diseases including myocardial infarction, congenital heart disease, and ischemic heart injuries. Finally, the volume concludes with a summary of the most prominent challenges and perspectives on the field of cardiovascular tissue engineering and clinical cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine is an essential resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students in cardiology and cardiovascular regeneration as well as clinical and basic researchers in bioengineering, nanomaterial and technology, and cardiovascular biology.

Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi) - Pathogenesis and Therapy

Author: Heinz-Peter Schultheiss
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3764383526
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Cardiomyopathy is one of the most frequent causes of heart failure. It is often associated with inadequate heart pumping or other heart function abnormalities. There are many different causes of the disease, therefore many different kinds of cardiomyopathies exist. This volume, written by a leading expert, focuses on inflammatory CM, belonging to the Dilated Cardiomyopathies (DCMi). It covers epidemiology/prognosis, pathology, immunology, diagnosis and treatment strategies.

Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19

Author: Umair Mallick
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030900657
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
This book discusses the evidence behind the relationship between COVID-19 and heart disease based on emerging state-of-the-art data. The rapid and unexpected global spread of the COVID-19 has revealed proportional levels of cardiovascular and metabolic complications. A myriad of pathogenetic mechanisms has come to the surface. There is still much research required to define whether cardiovascular disease causes COVID-19 complications or that cardiovascular disease appears as a result of the infection and which mechanisms are responsible. With cardiovascular and metabolic diseases already at pandemic levels and expected to increase further, this book provides readers with an urgent and thorough analysis of this association. Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19: Risk, Pathogenesis and Outcomes provides answers to the increasing numbers of questions related to heart disease in COVID-19, highlighting the association between these pandemics and including risk factors, mechanisms and how these may impact diverse patients populations. It describes how COVID-19 impacts older patients and those with metabolic illnesses such as obesity and diabetes mellitus, while providing an overview of the observed gender dichotomy among patients. It therefore represents an essential resource not only for all cardiovascular physicians but also for any healthcare professionals managing patients with these diseases or those exploring COVID-19.

COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System

Author: Brian C. Case
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443140022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Management comprehensively covers COVID-19's impact on the cardiovascular system. Coverage includes the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approach, treatment options, and clinical outcomes of patients presenting with COVID-19 with cardiac involvement. In a concise but comprehensive manner, the book's content reviews the epidemiology, risk factors, pathophysiology of COVID-19, cardiovascular clinical manifestations, non-invasive and invasive diagnostic evaluation, therapeutic options, outcomes data, role of the COVID-19 vaccine, and long-term outcomes/management.This is the perfect reference for basic and clinical researchers in cardiovascular medicine as well as practicing clinical cardiologists who are dealing with COVID-19 patients with cardiac involvement. - Explains the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approach, treatment options, and clinical outcomes of patients presenting with COVID-19 and cardiac involvement - Elucidates new and emerging options to treat this disease process - Provides concise, well validated, published data available in one single resource

COVID-19's Consequences on the Cardiovascular System

Author: Fabian Sanchis-Gomar
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443190925
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
COVID-19 Consequences on Cardiovascular System: Immediate, Intermediate, and Long-Term Complications covers all the aspects related with the interplay between SARS-COV-2 infection and the cardiovascular system, from bench to bedside and from acute infection to long-term complications. Written by a team of experts, this book is a one-stop-shop reference for both healthcare professionals and researchers who require a comprehensive view into the deleterious effects of COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system, the relationship of cardiovascular risk factors with COVID-19 prognosis, and further insights on the biomarkers that currently make it possible to predict and monitor the evolution of the disease at the cardiovascular level. Scientific evidence demonstrates that while COVID-19 primarily affects the lungs, it also affects multiple organs, particularly the cardiovascular system, with its most common complications being arrhythmia, cardiac injury, fulminant myocarditis, heart failure and pulmonary embolism. - Covers all the current scientific pieces of evidence about the effects of COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system from both a basic and a clinical point of view. - Discusses immediate, intermediate, and long-term complications of COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system. - Includes studies conducted worldwide by well-known experts in related fields.

Myocardial Injury

Author: John J. Spitzer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468444727
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
The chapters of this book represent contributions by plenary lecturers and invited symposium speakers of the Fourth Annual Meet ing of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research, held on May 26-29, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The aim of the Organizing Committee was to present an up-to-date picture of our knowledge of myocardial injury which would be equally useful to basic scientists and clinicians. The papers of this volume are divided into two groups: a) those dealing primarily with techniques to study myocardial injury, and b) those that discuss the different types of myocardial lnJury. The grouping of the papers within each of these headings roughly corresponds to the symposia presented at the meeting. I wish to acknowledge the financial support of the National Institutes of Health. Without grant HL 29149, the program could not have been financed. Contributions from the following companies were also gratefully received: Ayerst Laboratories, Ciba-Geigy, Merck Sharp and Dome, Pfizer Laboratories Division, A.H. Robbin Co., Smith-Kline Corporation, U.S.V. Pharmaceutical Co., and The Upjohn Co. My thanks are due to the members of The Organizing Committee (Drs. Gregory J. Bagby, Gerald S. Berenson, Alastair H. Burns, Harvey I. Miller, Robert Roskoski, Jr., and Judy A. Spitzer) for their help and support, and to the Secretary of the Meeting, Ms. L. Beatrice Abene for her excellent assistance. John J. Spitzer, M.D.

The Dreamers

Author: Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly

Coronavirus Disease - COVID-19

Author: Nima Rezaei
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030637611
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 964

Book Description
In December 2019, the world witnessed the occurrence of a new coronavirus to humanity. The disease spread quickly and became known as a pandemic globally, affecting both society and the health care system, both the elderly and young groups of people, and both the men’s and women’s groups. It was a universal challenge that immediately caused a surge in scientific research. Be a part of a world rising in fighting against the pandemic, the Coronavirus Disease - COVID-19 was depicted in the early days of the pandemic, but updated by more than 200 scientists and clinicians to include many facets of this new infectious pandemic, including i, characteristics, ecology, and evolution of coronaviruses; ii, epidemiology, genetics, and pathogenesis (immune responses and oxidative stress) of the disease; iii, diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical manifestations of the disease in pediatrics, geriatrics, pregnant women, and neonates; iv, challenges of co-occurring the disease with tropical infections, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and cancer and to the settings of dentistry, hematology, ophthalmology, and pharmacy; v, transmission, prevention, and potential treatments, ranging from supportive ventilator support and nutrition therapy to potential virus- and host-based therapies, immune-based therapies, photobiomodulation, antiviral photodynamic therapy, and vaccines; vi, the resulting consequences on social lives, mental health, education, tourism industry and economy; and vii, multimodal approaches to solve the problem by bioinformatic methods, innovation and ingenuity, globalization, social and scientific networking, interdisciplinary approaches, and art integration. We are approaching December 2020 and the still presence of COVID-19, asking us to call it COVID (without 19).

COVID-19 : A Multidisciplinary Approach, E-Book

Author: Joel J. Heidelbaugh
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN: 0323938728
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Clinics Collections: COVID-19 draws from Elsevier's robust Clinics Review Articles database to provide multidisciplinary teams, including pediatricians, primary care physicians, and cardiologists, with practical clinical advice and insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact across individual specialties. Clinics Collections: COVID-19 guides readers on how to apply current best practices in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 and associated comorbidities to everyday practice to help overcome challenges and complications, keep up with new and advanced treatment methods, and improve patient outcomes.