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Systems of the Body Series
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By
Alan Noble, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Robert Johnson, BA BM MRCP, Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Cardiology, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Alan Thomas, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Paul Bass, BSc, MD, FRCPath, Consultant in Histopathology and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK
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Systems of the Body,
Description
A textbook on the cardiovascular system for medical students, offering an integrated coverage of the basic science and major diseases of the system.
Audience
Medical students
Contents
A job description for the cardiovascular system.
Development of the heart and congenital heart disease.
What makes the heart contract.
Conduction
defects in the heart.
The heart as a pump: valve function and valve disease.
Cardiac muscle: structure, function and pathology.
Cardiac
failure.
Blood flow distribution.
Regulation of arterial blood pressure.
The lymphatic system.
Exercise and the cardiovascular
system.
Haemorrhage and circulatory shock.
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Hardbound, 224 pages, publication date: APR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07308-3
ISBN-10: 0-443-07308-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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