The Heart and Cardiovascular System Scientific Foundations

The thoroughly revised and updated Second Edition of this classic work features more than 30 entirely new chapters and includes more than 80 new contributors. Many of the new chapters focus on molecular and cell biology, immunology, thrombosis and thrombolysis, and membrane signalling through receptors and channels--fields of research that are now beginning to influence day-to-day patient care. Other new chapters integrate the basic sciences in the context of specific disease processes such as heart failure, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. The chapters that appeared in the original edition have been completely rewritten for the Second Edition, in many cases with the collaboration of new contributing authors.