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For over fifty years, McDonald's Blood Flow in Arteries has remained the definitive reference work in the field of arterial hemodynamics, including arterial structure and function with special emphasis on pulsatile flow and pressure. Prestigious, authoritative and comprehensive, the sixth edition has been totally updated and revised with several new chapters. This edition continues to provide the theoretical basis required for a thorough understanding of arterial blood flow in both normal and pathological conditions, while keeping clinical considerations and readability paramount throughout the text. New for the sixth edition McDonald's groundbreaking waveform analysis is extended to explain ill effects of aging on the aorta and heart, and on the small blood vessels of vital organs - brain and kidneys. Rigorous theory and methodology are combined to show relevance of blood pressure and flow pulsations to individual clinical problems and to results of the most recent epidemiological studies and clinical trials. Written by a small tightly-knit group to provide consistency and easy reference of normal and abnormal functions in arteries of all sizes in humans, experimental animals, and realistic computer models. Now available in a digital version, together with this book, to provide instant access to this invaluable reference resource. Erudite, definitive yet thoroughly practical, McDonald's Blood Flow in Arteries is essential reading for modern cardiologists, intensive care physicians, anesthesiologists, gerontologists, diabetologists, nephrologists and neurologists as well as physiologists, pharmacologists and epidemiologists. The ebook edition is in VitalBookTM Bookshelf - an ebook reader which allows you to: download the ebook to your computer or access it anywhere with an internet browser search the full text of all of the ebooks that you hold on your bookshelf for instant access to the information you need link through from references to PubMed make and share notes and highlights on your ebooks copy and print text and figures customize your view by changing font size and layout The definitive reference work in arterial haemodynamics Fully updated and expanded to cover all recent developments in the field A sound scientific base combined with a focus on practical clinical applications Includes an abundance of illustrations to clarify key principles Table of Contents: Foreword by Michael Taylor ix Foreword by David A. Kass and Myron L. Weisfeldt x Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 The nature of flow of a liquid 13 3 Properties of the arterial wall: theory 55 4 Properties of the arterial wall: practice 77 5 Endothelial function 111 6 General principles for measuring arterial waves 129 7 Pulsatile pressure-flow relations 165 8 Ultrasound 177 9 Wave reflections 195 10 Contours of pressure and flow waves in arteries 225 11 Principles of recording and analysis of arterial waveforms 255 12 Vascular impedance 273 13 Aortic input impedance as ventricular load 311 14 Coupling of the left ventricle with the systemic circulation: implications to cardiac failure 321 15 Cardiac failure: clinical implications 345 16 The pulmonary circulation 357 17 The coronary circulation 375 18 Special circulations 397 19 Aging 411 20 Hypertension 447 21 Interpretation of blood pressure in epidemiological studies and clinical trials 469 22 Arterial biomarkers 485 23 Atherosclerosis 499 24 Specific arterial disease 507 25 Generalized and metabolic disease 523 26 Therapeutic strategies 535 27 Exercise 553 28 Central arterial pressure 569 29 Lifestyle and environment 579 30 Pressure pulse waveform analysis 595 Bibliography 639 Index 733 About the Author(s): Wilmer W Nichols PhD - Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA Michael F O'Rourke MD DSc - Cardiovascular Department, St Vincent's Clinic and Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Charalambos Vlachopoulos MD - 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date
July 29, 2011
Pages
768
ISBN
9780340985014
Format
Mixed media
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