Title | Long-Term Management of Patients After Myocardial Infarction [electronic resource] / edited by C. T. Kappagoda, P. V. Greenwood |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1988 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2021-0 |
Descript | XII, 244 p. online resource |
1. Introduction: Long-Term Management of Patients After Myocardial Infarction -- I. Patterns Of Coronary Artery Disease And Survival -- 2. Changing Patterns in the Epidemiology of Coronary Artery Disease: Trends in Survival After Myocardial Infarction -- 3. Trends in Pre-Hospital Mortality -- 4. Hospital and Post-Hospital Mortality After Myocardial Infarction -- II. Assessment Of Function -- 5. Physiological Response to Exercise -- 6. Assessment of Ventricular Function in Man -- 7. Stress Testing After Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 8. Coronary Angiography After Myocardial Infarction -- 9. Exercise Echocardiography After Myocardial Infarction -- III. Therapeutic Options -- 10. Beta Adrenoreceptor Blocking Drugs in Patients Who Have Suffered Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 11. Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty After Myocardial Infarction -- 12. Current Role of Surgery in Long Term Management of Patients After Myocardial Infarction -- 13. Psychological Aspects of the Treatment of Myocardial Infarction -- 14. Management of Risk Factors -- 15. Benefits of Exercise: Effect on Mortality and Physiological Function -- IV. Future Trends -- 16. Calcium Channel Blockers and Ischemia: A Review -- 17. Receptors in the Regulation of Lipoprotein Metabolism -- 18. Thromboxane and Prostacyclin in Platelet/Blood Vessel Interaction: A Commentary