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OverviewThe sober explanation for this book is a call by the Springer-Verlag, London, to edit a publication on ‘The functional relevance of the collateral circulation’ of the heart. Alternatively, it could be ‘sold’ as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of the coronary circulation, which was itself meant to diminish the amount of ‘useless’ energy. Such a process of reducing disarray in a system with the aim of grasping it better is related to simplification, which carries the risk of introducing error. This can be exemplified by the historic view of angina pectoris, which used to be simplified as being always fatal, thus obscuring for nearly two centuries the view of a ‘self-healing’ mechanism such as the collateral circulation of the heart. It would be na?¨ve, to assume the present work to be free of erroneous oversimplification, because the very nature of scientific work is related to generating (simple) hypotheses with their subsequent falsification. In that context and bluntly, my primary interest in the field of the collateral circulation was not initiated with a vision of eradicating the consequences of coronary artery disease (CAD) by promoting the growth of natural bypasses. The time for such sizeable ideas had passed in the 1970s with the start of the work by Wolfgang Schaper. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christian SeilerPublisher: Springer London Ltd Imprint: Springer London Ltd Edition: 2009 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.862kg ISBN: 9781848823419ISBN 10: 184882341 Pages: 450 Publication Date: 23 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsRelevance of the Human Coronary Collateral Circulation.- Assessment of the Human Coronary Collateral Circulation.- Pathogenesis of the Human Coronary Collateral Circulation.- Pathophysiology of the Human Coronary Collateral Circulation.- Therapeutic Promotion of the Human Coronary Collateral Circulation.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |