{"product_id":"9789401043359","title":"Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine: Its Role in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDevelopments in Cardiovascular Medicine: Its Role in the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMarwick, Thomas H.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eW. F. ARMSTRONG While stress echocardiography is not the first technique to be applied to patients for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, it represents an impor­ tant clinical tool, likely to become of increasing pertinence in today's era of cost containment and mandated cost-effectiveness of diagnosis. It may be the most rapidly expanding area of clinical echocardiography today. Stress echocardiography as we know it today represents the natural con­ clusion and merger of observations made over fifty years ago. In 1935 Tenn­ ant and Wiggers demonstrated that the immediate result of a coronary oc­ clusion, was an instantaneous abnormality of wall motion [1]. As viewed from the surface of the heart in an open chest dog preparation, cyanosis and obvious paradoxical bulging of the left ventricular wall was noted. At a similar time Masters and co-workers, using fairly rudimentary exercise de­ vices, described the response of the human cardiovascular system to sustained exercise (Figure 1) [2]. These two observations diverged for four decades while clinical investigation was pursued along the two parallel lines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-10-20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789401043359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-0782-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240cm x160cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 182\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46311875969164,"sku":"9789401043359","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789401043359.jpg?v=1771513670","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789401043359","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}