Pulmonary hypertension /
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| Imprint: | Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 444 p.) : ill. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary cardiology Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J. : Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8886305 |
Table of Contents:
- Historical perspective: a century of primary (idiopathic) pulmonary hypertension
- Classification of pulmonary hypertension
- Diagnostic approach to pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Pulmonary hypertension genes
- The right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension
- Congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Connective tissue disease associated pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary hypertension associated with HIV, liver disease, sarcoidosis and sickle cell disease
- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
- General therapeutic approach and traditional therapies
- Prostacyclin therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Endothelin and its blockade in pulmonary arterial hypertension
- PDE5 inhibitors and the cGMP pathway in pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Statins for treatment of pulmonary hypertension
- Transitions and combination therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Acute right ventricular dysfunction: focus on acute cor pulmonale
- Lung transplantation and atrial septostomy for pulmonary arterial hypertension
- New directions in pulmonary hypertension therapy.