Heart Valves
Subtitle: From Design to Clinical Implantation
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781461461432
Subjects: Heart valves; Heart, diseases
Description: Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. While the past 40 years have brought major progress in cardiac valve repair and replacement, there remain large patient populations that do not receive such therapies. This, in turn, implies a great need for future basic, applied, and clinical research and, ultimately, therapeutic developments. Heart Valves is a state-of-the-art handbook dedicated to: 1) cardiac valve anatomy, 2) models for testing and research methods; 3) clinical trials; and 4) clinical needs and applications.