New Aspects in the Treatment of Failing Heart (Hardcover)

Molecular biology and biochemical techniques, the avant-garde of medical research, are now also being used to investigate cardiovascular events. The contributions in this volume, based on the 14th International Society of Heart Research (ISHR) Meeting of 1992, document the discoveries being made at the frontiers of research with cardiac molecular and genetic biology and technology. The contents are divided into five categories: the process of ischemic myocardial damage in heart failure, biochemical abnormalities in cardiomyopathy, signal transduction in diseased myocardial cells, electrophysiological abnormalities of the failing heart, and recent concepts in drug therapy.