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Preface Coronary Disease in Women: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment provides a clinical management approach to the care of women with known or suspected coronary artery disease. Whereas previous books on the subject have focused on gender-based differences in the epidemiology of coronary...

Preface For many years I performed tissue culture in large scientific institutions that had a great deal of infrastructure. When I set up a tissue laboratory outside such an infrastructure, however, I found there was a shortage of easily accessible information about the basic needs, reagents,...

Preface Over the past 50 years, care of the patient sustaining an acute myocardial infarction has undergone a stunning evolution. In the early days, there was little to offer the patient with an acute infarction except for weeks of absolute bedrest, and substantial morbidity and high rates of...

Foreword During the past few decades, significant progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the United States. Despite these advances, national statistics indicate that the incidence and prevalence of chronic heart failure have been increasing in recent...