Cardiology category: 1797 books

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades. For as long...

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author...

Heart and Vision tells the life story of Dr. Jorge Garcia, renowned as one of the finest heart surgeons in the world. Having achieved outstanding feats and realized his strong vision, the doctor now turns his experiences and expertise into inspirational literature to encourage us to forge our own paths. All we need is heart, and the vision to get us there.

Kay was still alive and he had to save her now, right away. That was his duty as a cardiologist. He had read about the latest surgical procedures and went over them in his mind, but he had never really done one.Dr. Louis Stafford accomplished his first heart transplant and he prayed to God that it would be completely successful and his patient would live to a ripe old age.

Günter Hamann erlitt im März 2002 im wohlverdienten Urlaub einen schweren Herzinfarkt. 50 Monate und neun Tage Warten, Bangen und Hoffen. Dann die erlösende Nachricht: „Wir haben ein Spenderherz für Sie. Hamann hält Zwiesprache mit dem Spender in Form von Briefen. Schildert sein Empfinden und...

Cryosurgery is a method of therapy that uses treatment could be viewed easily and at frequent freezing temperatures to achieve specific effects intervals. Though endoscopic cryosurgical tech­ on tissues. Depending upon the technique of niques were used for the treatment of prostatic treatment, the...

***The Zipper Club won the American Journal of Nursing's 2016 Book of the Year award in the category of Creative Works*** For years Thomas Mannella observed the intrigue of people who believed him when he said the scars across his chest were from an alley knifing. This was a lie, but the more...

At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease...

For forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into a dozen languages. Hailed by the British Medical Journal as a "medical classic", it has been a favourite of generations...

Cardiac surgeon John A. Elefteriades, one of Men’s Health magazine’s ten best doctors in America, shares moving patient stories and lessons about the human heart.   The human heart is a paradox, incredibly strong yet surprisingly fragile. And while stories that reveal its symbolic characteristics...

Chapter 1CardiomyopathyMy mother had cardiomyopathy; so did her mother and brother both of whom died from heart failure.My brother also had aortic regurgitation which had been treated but still has heart failure.When I was 12 and down with mumps, I remembered my mother...

I have been publishing posts related to cholesterol for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer. Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may never...

An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations. For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century,...

Electrocardiography Review provides 150 carefully selected electrocardiogram case studies derived from Dr. Rimmerman’s files at the Cleveland Clinic. The electrocardiograms have been chosen to help maximize learning and ABIM Certifying Exam preparation, emphasizing concepts that are not traditionally...