Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Arterial Stiffness and Diabetic Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy – Which Comes First?
Victoria A. Serhiyenko, Ludmila M. Serhiyenko, and Alexandr A. Serhiyenko
Department of Endocrinology, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine

Chapter 2. A Fluid Dynamics Perspective of Arterial Stiffness in Arteriosclerotic Development
Trevor Tucker, PhD
Independent Researcher, Ottawa, Canada

Chapter 3. Ventricular Tachycardia: Risk Factors, Causes and Treatment Options
Hussein Rabah¹ and Ali Rabah²
¹Staten Island University Hospital, Department of Medicine, New York, USA
²Beirut Cardiac Institute, Head of division, cardiac electrophysiology, Beirut, Lebanon

Chapter 4. Short-Term Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation
Elian Facundo Giordanino
Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chapter 5. Management of Vascular Injuries during Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomies
Shehab Mohamed¹, MD, Luca Bertolaccini¹, MD, PhD, FCCP, Claudia Bardoni¹, MD, Andrea Cara¹, MD, Elena Prisciandaro¹, MD, Niccolò Filippi¹, MD, and Lorenzo Spaggiari¹,², MD, PhD
¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS,
Milan, Italy
²Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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