Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Cardiac Sarcoidosis (pp. 1-32)
Bernard Kadosh and Igor Mamkin (New York Methodist Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Brooklyn, NY USA)

Chapter 2 – Heart Failure and Acute Phase Proteins (pp. 33-56)
Katherine Wachmann, Johann Altenberger and Paul J. Mills (Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Medicine Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, and others)

Chapter 3 – Endothelial Dysfunction in Hypertension: From Bench to Bedside and Future Directions (pp. 57-94)
Ify Mordi, Natalie Sawdon and Nikolaos Tzemos, M.D. (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, and others)

Chapter 4 – Treatment of Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery (pp. 95-116)
Alexandre do Canto Zago, Rui Manuel de Sousa de Almeida and Eduardo Keller Saadi (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Medical School (Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 5 – Does Cholesterol Drive Coronary Atherosclerosis? (pp. 117-156)
William R. Ware (Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 6 – Pulse Decomposition for Artery Pressure Waveforms: Using Three or Four Gaussian Functions? (pp. 157-176)
Chengyu Liu (School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China, and others)

Chapter 7 – Multidetector Computed Tomography as a Potential Modality to Detect Subclinical Atherosclerosis (pp. 177-210)
Kohichiro Iwasaki and Shozo Kusachi (Department of Cardiology, Okayama Kyokuto Hospital, Japan, and others)

Index