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The most comprehensive and current resource on the heart! This unparalleled text continues to focus on patient care rather than the scientific aspect of the specialty. Thoroughly revised, this new edition is 33% new and updated. With continued emphasis on diagnosis and treatment, Hurst's THE HEART, 11/e features greater use of tables, charts and figures, as well as current ACC/AHA guidelines, interpretations of clinical trials and cardiology data found in the Human Genome Project, and more information on MRI and PET.

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Title: Phylogenetic analysis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157, Germany, 1987-2008.(RESEARCH)(Brief article)(Clinical report)
Author: Christian Jenke
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Date: April 1, 2010
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Date: April 1, 2010
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Title: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in man, Republic of Georgia, 2009.(Letter to the editor)
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Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2010
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Second author, Naren L. Banik, is with Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston. Focuses on the roles of proteases in pathological changes in the brain, an aspect of proteolysis that has recently gained increased importance and interest. For clinicians and researchers. DNLM: Neurodegenerative Diseases--physiopathology. ... Read more

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Pocket-sized and built for speed, you'll find concise answers on diagnosis, etiology, and management of cardiovascular disease in the "Hurst Handbook." The important clinical points of the fully revised edition of Hurst's The Heart are summarized here in the Companion with an emphasis on brevity without sacrificing content. Perfect for use on the ward or in the office, rely on the Hurst's Handbook for authoritative but succinct answers to your questioning. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:can be such as to evoke sound and healthy thoughts. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the subjects of cerebral congestion who insist upon attending to their avocations, and on concocting schemes for obtaining wealth or fame, should perpetrate acts which result in the loss of fortune, or the acquisition of a reputation far different from that sought.The cause of cerebral congestion, whatever it be, must, if practicable, be removed, and it must continue removed.CHAPTER II. C K R t: n a A i. A.njbhia.. In cerebral anaemia the quantity of blood in the brain is either reduced below the normal standard, or the quhlity of the circulating fluid is impoverished. The first-named condition is due either to direct Joss of blood, to deficient action of the heart, to impaired nutrition, or to some cause preventing the due access of blood to the brain ; the second to disease of some organ concerned in hscmatosis or to a gen eral cachexia.The two states very often coexist, and they may properly be con- gidered together.Symptoms.—In cerebral anaemia suddenly induced from profuse haemorrhage, the most prominent symptom is syncope. Vertigo is generally an attendant, and there are paleness of the features and coldness of the extremities. The pulse is frequent, thread-like, and weak. The respiration is feeble and accelerated.But, when the accession is more gradual, headache is very generally present. It may be, and usually is, confined to a limited portion of the head, sometimes to a spot not larger than the point of the finger. A feeling of constriction, especially across the brows, is complained of, and the vertigo, notably increased on rising from the recumbent posture, is as troublesome a feature as in the worst attacks of cerebral congestion. There is ringing in... ... Read more