Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Discoveries and Advances in the Effects of Progesterone on the Cardiovascular System
(Roger Lyrio dos Santos, Tagana Rosa da Cunha and Jéssyca Aparecida Soares Giesen – Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, UFES, Brazil)
Chapter 2. Congenital Heart Disease Associated with Well-Characterized Genetic Syndromes
(Fabricio González-Andrade and Gabriela Aguinaga-Romero – Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Unidad de Medicina Traslacional, Quito, Ecuador)
Chapter 3. Percutaneous Intervention and Hemodynamic Assessment in Congenital Heart Diseases
(Edite Serrano Gonçalves, Daniel Echeverría-Espinosa and Fabricio González-Andrade – Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Avaliação de Cardiopatias Congénitas em Idade Pediátrica, Alameda, Porto, Oporto, Portugal, et al.)
Chapter 4. Evaluation and Treatment of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque with Intermediate Stenosis
(Boda Zhou and Ping Zhang – Department of Cardiology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medcine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Chapter 5. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Post Endovascular Aortic Repair
(Nikolaos C. Schizas, Eleftherios Orestis M. Argyriou and Theodoros G. Michailidis – Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece, et al.)
Chapter 6. Vulnerable Plaques in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease
(Nikita. A. Kochergin, Anastasia. M. Kochergina, Vladimir. I. Ganyukov, and Olga. L. Barbarash – Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases, Kemerovo, Russia)
Chapter 7. Incidental Emphysematous Pyelonephritis in a Double Valve Replacement – A Rare Case Report
(Anuj Sangal, Kushant Gupta and Rajneesh Malhotra – Department of CTVS, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India)
Index
