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Occult Atherosclerotic Disease

Diagnosis, Assessment and Management

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Abdul-Majeed Salmasi

    1. Department of Cardiology, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

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  2. Andrew N. Nicolaides

    1. Irvine Laboratory for Cardiovascular Investigation and Research, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (DICM, volume 123)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Pathophysiological considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The cell biology of atherosclerosis

      • Richard G. Petty
      Pages 3-17

    3. The pathology of atherosclerosis

      • Aseel N. Fattah, Abdul-Kadir Abdulla
      Pages 19-31

  3. Occult carotid and cerebrovascular disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The natural history of asymptomatic carotid artery disease

      • Thomas S. Hatsukami, D. Eugene Strandness Jr.
      Pages 35-44

    3. Techniques of screening, diagnosis and assessment of occult carotid and cerebrovascular disease

      • Sophie C. Renton, Andrew N. Nicolaides
      Pages 45-57

    4. The diagnosis and management of occult atherosclerotic disease of the extra-cranial carotid artery

      • Michael J. Grigg, Kenneth A. Myers
      Pages 59-73

  4. Occult coronary artery disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Risk factors and epidemiology in the pathogenesis and clinical progress of occult coronary artery disease

      • Vaskar Mukerji, Brent M. Parker
      Pages 77-89

    3. ECG and stress testing in the diagnosis of occult atherosclerotic disease of the coronary arteries

      • Abdul -Majeed Salmasi
      Pages 91-103

    4. Use of Holter monitoring in occult coronary artery disease

      • Shlomo Stern, Dan Tzivoni
      Pages 105-112

    5. Radionuclide techniques in the diagnosis and assessment of occult coronary artery disease

      • Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian, Jaekyeong Heo
      Pages 113-137

    6. Echocardiography in the diagnosis and assessment of occult coronary artery disease

      • Petros Nihoyannopoulos
      Pages 139-151

    7. Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis and assessment of occult coronary artery disease

      • Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Peter Mazeika
      Pages 153-163

    8. Prognosis and management of occult coronary artery disease

      • Dan Tzivoni, Jesaia Benhorin, Shlomo Stern
      Pages 165-171

    9. Occult myocardial infarction

      • Peter F. Cohn
      Pages 173-181

  5. Occult atherosclerotic disease of the aorta and arteries of the lower limbs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Epidemiology of occult atherosclerosis in the lower limbs

      • F. Gerry, R. Fowkes
      Pages 185-204

    3. Occult aortic aneurysm

      • Jack Collin
      Pages 205-218
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About this book

Occult atherosclerotic diseases impose great challenges in the cardiovascular practice. Although their pathology is not much different from that of the overt group of diseases, the clinical approach to their diagnoses remains a puzzle. This has mainly emerged as a result of the problems faced in trying to pick up the vulnerable subjects from among the general public. More definitive candidates to be evaluated are those belonging to one of the high risk groups. There are no statistical figures available on the incidence of occult atherosclerotic disease in the "non risky" general public and this is definitely an area that needs further investigation. Atherosclerotic disease whether they are in the cerebral, coronary, renal or lower limb arteries are theoretically interrelated because the basic patho­ logical changes are usually similar. However there still remain some differ­ ences which are mainly due to variation in the flow pattern in the arteries. Thus it will be important clinically and from the management point of view to investigate for the presence of occult disease in other arteries if an atherosclerotic disease in a certain artery has been discovered. This approach is of a great significance especially from the preventive point of view in order to avoid catastrophic events which may have resulted from pathology in the other region.

Reviews

'This book can be recommended for its ability to interest and educate the reader in several related fields.' Int. Journal of Cardiology 38 1993

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Cardiology, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

    Abdul-Majeed Salmasi

  • Irvine Laboratory for Cardiovascular Investigation and Research, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK

    Andrew N. Nicolaides

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Occult Atherosclerotic Disease

  • Book Subtitle: Diagnosis, Assessment and Management

  • Editors: Abdul-Majeed Salmasi, Andrew N. Nicolaides

  • Series Title: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3404-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1188-1Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5506-2Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3404-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-9842

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 361

  • Topics: Cardiology, Vascular Surgery

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