Book Description:
This book provides readers with the latest developments in cardiovascular research. Topics covered include the morphology and implications of atrial septal defects; the epidemiology, clinical presentation, preliminary diagnostics and imaging of arterial septal defects; the pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, imaging, treatment and prognosis of constrictive pericarditis and cardiac tamponade; the psychological distress lived by patients and their caregivers after a cardiac arrest; the significance and limitations of coronary angiography and intravascular imaging systems, covering almost all devices currently available in Japan, where intracoronary imaging is being utilized aggressively; previous reports on coronary endothelial dysfunction and/or spasm after stent implantation and the clinical implications, and prognosis; and the relationship between Type D personality and health-related behaviors. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical)

Table of Contents:
PrefaceChapter 1
Atrial Septal Morphology and its Implications for Interatrial Communication
(Rohit S. Loomba, Diane Spicer, and Robert H. Anderson, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Division of Cardiology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, and others)Chapter 2
Atrial Septal Defects in Adults – Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation and Preliminary Diagnostics
(Agnieszka Kuczaj and Piotr Józef Stryjewski, II Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine with Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and others)Chapter 3
Imaging of Atrial Septal Defects
(Deepa Prasad, Ravi Ashwath and Prabhakar Rajiah, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies and children Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and others)Chapter 4
Constrictive Pericarditis: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation, Imaging, Treatment & Prognosis
(Ali Nawaz Khan, Prabhakar Rajiah, Sumaira Macdonald, Durr-e-Sabih, Consultant Radiologist/Professor Honorary North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK, and others)

Chapter 5
Cardiac Tamponade: Pathophysiology, Etiology, Epidemiology, Prognosis, Symptomatology, Clinical Findings, Differential Diagnoses, Laboratory Studies, Imaging, Electrocardiography, Pericardiocentesis & Surgical Treatment
(Ali Nawaz Khan, Prabhakar Rajiah, Sumaira Macdonald, Durr-e-Sabih, Consultant Radiologist/Professor Honorary
North Manchester General Hospital, UK, and others)

Chapter 6
Cardiac Arrest and Following Psychological Distress in Patients and Their Caregivers
(Alessia Frigerio and Angelo Compare, Department of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy)

Chapter 7
Current Clinical Utility and Limitations of Angiography and Intracoronary Multi-modality Imaging in the Era of Drug-eluting Coronary Stents
(Shigenori Ito, Kosuke Nakasuka, Masahiko Inomata, Takayuki Yoshida, Nozomu Tamai, Tomoaki Saeki and Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Division of Cardiology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, and others)

Chapter 8
Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction and Spasm after Stent Implantation
(Shigenori Ito, Tatsuya Mizoguchi, Kosuke Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Ohmori, Masahiko Inomata, Takayuki Yoshida, Nozomu Tamai, Tomoaki Saeki, Akihiro Morino, Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Division of Cardiology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, and others)

Chapter 9
Type D Personality and Illness Behaviors
(Claudia Elia Giulio Simonelli and Angelo Compare, Department of Human and Social Science, University of Bergamo, Bergamo BG, Italy)

Index