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This practical volume contains invited reviews of the management of patients with selective thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorders and research with potential for applications in clinical practice. Topics covered include the treatment of clotting disorders, thrombomodulation, thrombosporin, alloimmune thrombocytopenias, anticoagulant therapy for venous thromboembolism, treatment of Factor VII inhibitors, and more. ... Read more

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This work clinically reviews advances in coronary thrombolysis and offers practical information for the optimal implementation of conjunctive and adjunctive measures needed when coronary thrombolysis is performed. It presents results of the GUSTO trial and discusses anticoagulants under development, including direct acting thrombins, inhibitors of coagulation factor X and tissue factor, and antiplatelet drugs.Illustrating methods and techniques that induce patency of thrombotically occluded coronary arteries, this work: introduces the concept of conjunctive therapy and differentiates it from adjunctive therapy; assesses the advantages and disadvantages of specific fibrinolytic agents for use in particular clinical circumstances; clarifies mechanisms underlying atherogenesis, coronary thrombosis and acute coronary syndromes; identifies the clinical considerations that must be addressed if coronary thrombosis is to be optimally effective; shows how fibrinolytic agents act as procoagulants; describes the relationship between the fibrinolytic system and the activation of platelets; and provides practical protocols for the use of clot-selective and nonclot-slective drugs to treat coronary thrombosis. ... Read more

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Presents an internist's view of venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, which often trouble patients following surgery.Includes excellent chapters on physiology, radiologic diagnosis, and special problems.Also covers pharmacotherapeutics, prophylaxis, indium-11 platelet imaging, pulmonary angioscopy, pulmonary thromboendartectomy, vasoactive humoral factors, and more. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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This text offers a detailed and authoritative review of the issues involved in the links between thrombosis and haemostasis and cancer, and contains contributions from leading international researchers and clinicians in this field. ... Read more

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Based on the proceedings of the symposium on thrombosis and its management, held in Manchester in 1992, this book presents an up-to-date review of the state of the art. Topics covered include aetiology, risk factors and therapeutic approaches. ... Read more

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Cerebral veins contain about 70 per cent of the total cerebral blood volume, but cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) occurs about a thousand times less often than arterial stroke. CVT affects mostly young adults and children, and in about one quarter of cases the cause remains unknown. Written by international experts, this publication is dealing with epidemiology, risk factors, coagulation disorders, clinical presentation - especially focusing on headache, current neuroradiological treatment, complications and long-term prognosis of CVT. The book covers the full spectrum of CVT pathogenesis and offers a new and effective approach to improve earlier diagnosis, recognize new risk factors and to identify the most severe manifestations, which require more aggressive treatments.Neurologists, interventional neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, and all physicians who are involved in the care of patients with CVT will welcome this publication as a useful and up-to-date clinical guide. ... Read more

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This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the Antiphospholipid syndrome. One of the most important advances in rheumatology and connective tissue diseases of the last decade. It provides an explanation for many previously undefined conditions with no clear pathogenesis encompassing all subspeculations in internal medicine as well as obstetrics. Clotting problems leading to strokes and myocardial infarctions (in younger people) as well as a large variety of other syndromes such as chorea, hyproadrenalism, pulmonary problems are now being understood.

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Excellent Resource for APS
I am an APS patient.Although this recently published book is written for the medical profession, it is very useful to any APS patient.It contains more in-depth information than any patient guide written for a layperson could possibly provide.It also provides numerous citations to other sources in its extensive bibliographies.I purchased it for myself so that I can be as educated as possible about this life-threatening condition and have let my physician borrow it so that he can be better informed about its many manifestations and possible complications.Although this book is expensive, it is well worth the price and I view it as a necessary medical expense. ... Read more