The Role of Inflammatory Mediators in the Failing Heart (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780792373810
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Physiological Pathology; Mediators; Cardiovascular Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Pathophysiology; Medical; Pathology; Cardiology; Dentistry - General; Medical / Cardiology; Heart; Heart failure; Inflammation
First sentence: Although clinicians have recognized the importance of inflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of heart disease for well over 200 years, it has taken nearly as many years for clinicians and scientists to focus on the basic biological mechanisms by which inflammatory mediators contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiac disease states.