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Clinical aspects of operable heart disease
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CIRCULATION
reviews
MI:SCLE. Proceedings of Symposium held at Smolenice, edited by 0. Hudlickb, Oxford, Press, Inc., ,756 pages. Price $15.00.
IN SKELETAL
an International Czechoslovakia, 1968, Pergamon
These are the proceedings of a symposium held in Czechoslovakia in 1966. The contributors are leading investigators in the field. The subjects discussed are broad. Among the aspects presented are central nervous regulations of skeletal muscle function, effect of angiotensin on vihceral and muscle circulation, effect of adrenergic blockade on forearm blood flow, blood flow and skeletal muscle metabolism, autoregulation of skeletal muscle flow, muscle circulation in &hernia, along with many others. The publication is organized like the well known and excellent ones of the Ciba Symposia. The discussions are most interesting. This is a very good book which should interest all students of circulation. DISEASES OF THE HEART ANU CIKCULATION. Ed. .1, by Dr. Paul Wood, revised by his friends and colleagues, Philadelphia, 1968, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1,164 pages. Price $29.00.
This is an outstanding book which first appeared about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, Paul \Vood’s untimely death interfered with the publication of a third edition. Fortunately, however, leading cardiologists of Britain have joined I)r. Walter Sommerville to produce this third edition. These editors and contributors have continued the same format of the previous editions to bring the book up to date. The book is expanded considerably even though the style remains the same. This is an excellent book, one of the best in cardiology. Sommerville and his associates have rendered a fine service to medicine in perpetuating Wood’s book.
CLIKICAL
ASPECTS
OF OPEKABLE
HEAKT
I)ISEASE.
By Donald R. Kahn, M.D., Ruth H. Strang, M.D., and William S. \Vilson, M.D., New York, 1968, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., Division of Meredith Pub. Co., 363 pages. Price $16.00. The
authors have written a book which should not only interest cardiac surgeons, but cardiologi:,ts as well. The book consists of 24 rather short chapters which include the congenital and acquired types of heart diseases for which surgery is performed. The chapters are well-organized and nicely illustrated. The pathophysiologic and clinical features of the various diseases and congenital defects are discussed from the cardiologic and surgical points of view. There is a short chapter on transplantation. The book is a useful one written by a surgeon, a pediatrician, and a cardiologist. Those who are involved actively in such problems will find the book of relatively
little interest, whereas beginners may like such book which is concise and includes the prevailing opinions at the present time.
a
BEAT TO BEAT HEMODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF I,uN(; IxFLATION AND NoknlAL RESPIRATION IN ANARSTHETEED AND Conscious DOW. By Andre A. Charlier, Bruxelles, 1968, Editions Arscia S. A., 112 pages.
This relatively brief monograph summarizes the experiments of Doctor Charlier in which he recorded the time-courses of pressure and volume blood flow in the pulmonary system of dogs. His methods were conventional ones. Sleasurements were made with the chest open and with it closed. He describes his method and results very clearly and presents his data in detail. The influence of the variations of respiration are shown. The studies are important and should be of special interest to those studying pulmonary circulation, a segment of the cardiovascular system long neglected. This is an important contribution to an understanding of pulmonary circulation.
DAS DEN
gart,
EKG GROBEN
NACH OPEKATIONEK AM HERZEK GEFABEN. By Ernst Kriehuber,
1968, Georg
Thieme
Verlag,
IIN)
AN
Stutt-
2.56 pages.
This is a nice presentation of changes in the electrocardiogram produced by surgery for various types of cardiac disease. The pre- and postoperative electrocardiograms are clearly defined and nicely illustrated. An electrocardiogram of a trans. planted heart is included for curiosity. The artthors included surgical repair of congenital defects and various types of acquired cardiac disease including valvular defects and valve replacements. The duration of follow-up after surgery varied, of course. This book is the first one devoted entirelyto such an aspect of cardiology. It contains interesting material clearly presented and carefully documented.
BALI.ISTOCAKDIO(;KAPHY.
Basel, Switzerland, Price $11.10.
1968,
Edited by I)ennis Deuchar, S. Karger AG, 190 pages.
This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth European Congress on Ballistocardiography held in London, Apr. 3-4, 1967. The proceedings consist of a series of papers concerning various physiologic, pharmacologic, and clinical aspects of BCG. These papers should interest those who are working with BCG. The papers are almost entirely from European workers and, therefore, reflect the ideas from that part of the world. These papers further support the need for much more clinical investigation before BCG can become an established procedure in the practice of medicine, as has electrocardiography. x47
CIRCULATION
reviews
MI:SCLE. Proceedings of Symposium held at Smolenice, edited by 0. Hudlickb, Oxford, Press, Inc., ,756 pages. Price $15.00.
IN SKELETAL
an International Czechoslovakia, 1968, Pergamon
These are the proceedings of a symposium held in Czechoslovakia in 1966. The contributors are leading investigators in the field. The subjects discussed are broad. Among the aspects presented are central nervous regulations of skeletal muscle function, effect of angiotensin on vihceral and muscle circulation, effect of adrenergic blockade on forearm blood flow, blood flow and skeletal muscle metabolism, autoregulation of skeletal muscle flow, muscle circulation in &hernia, along with many others. The publication is organized like the well known and excellent ones of the Ciba Symposia. The discussions are most interesting. This is a very good book which should interest all students of circulation. DISEASES OF THE HEART ANU CIKCULATION. Ed. .1, by Dr. Paul Wood, revised by his friends and colleagues, Philadelphia, 1968, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1,164 pages. Price $29.00.
This is an outstanding book which first appeared about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, Paul \Vood’s untimely death interfered with the publication of a third edition. Fortunately, however, leading cardiologists of Britain have joined I)r. Walter Sommerville to produce this third edition. These editors and contributors have continued the same format of the previous editions to bring the book up to date. The book is expanded considerably even though the style remains the same. This is an excellent book, one of the best in cardiology. Sommerville and his associates have rendered a fine service to medicine in perpetuating Wood’s book.
CLIKICAL
ASPECTS
OF OPEKABLE
HEAKT
I)ISEASE.
By Donald R. Kahn, M.D., Ruth H. Strang, M.D., and William S. \Vilson, M.D., New York, 1968, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., Division of Meredith Pub. Co., 363 pages. Price $16.00. The
authors have written a book which should not only interest cardiac surgeons, but cardiologi:,ts as well. The book consists of 24 rather short chapters which include the congenital and acquired types of heart diseases for which surgery is performed. The chapters are well-organized and nicely illustrated. The pathophysiologic and clinical features of the various diseases and congenital defects are discussed from the cardiologic and surgical points of view. There is a short chapter on transplantation. The book is a useful one written by a surgeon, a pediatrician, and a cardiologist. Those who are involved actively in such problems will find the book of relatively
little interest, whereas beginners may like such book which is concise and includes the prevailing opinions at the present time.
a
BEAT TO BEAT HEMODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF I,uN(; IxFLATION AND NoknlAL RESPIRATION IN ANARSTHETEED AND Conscious DOW. By Andre A. Charlier, Bruxelles, 1968, Editions Arscia S. A., 112 pages.
This relatively brief monograph summarizes the experiments of Doctor Charlier in which he recorded the time-courses of pressure and volume blood flow in the pulmonary system of dogs. His methods were conventional ones. Sleasurements were made with the chest open and with it closed. He describes his method and results very clearly and presents his data in detail. The influence of the variations of respiration are shown. The studies are important and should be of special interest to those studying pulmonary circulation, a segment of the cardiovascular system long neglected. This is an important contribution to an understanding of pulmonary circulation.
DAS DEN
gart,
EKG GROBEN
NACH OPEKATIONEK AM HERZEK GEFABEN. By Ernst Kriehuber,
1968, Georg
Thieme
Verlag,
IIN)
AN
Stutt-
2.56 pages.
This is a nice presentation of changes in the electrocardiogram produced by surgery for various types of cardiac disease. The pre- and postoperative electrocardiograms are clearly defined and nicely illustrated. An electrocardiogram of a trans. planted heart is included for curiosity. The artthors included surgical repair of congenital defects and various types of acquired cardiac disease including valvular defects and valve replacements. The duration of follow-up after surgery varied, of course. This book is the first one devoted entirelyto such an aspect of cardiology. It contains interesting material clearly presented and carefully documented.
BALI.ISTOCAKDIO(;KAPHY.
Basel, Switzerland, Price $11.10.
1968,
Edited by I)ennis Deuchar, S. Karger AG, 190 pages.
This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth European Congress on Ballistocardiography held in London, Apr. 3-4, 1967. The proceedings consist of a series of papers concerning various physiologic, pharmacologic, and clinical aspects of BCG. These papers should interest those who are working with BCG. The papers are almost entirely from European workers and, therefore, reflect the ideas from that part of the world. These papers further support the need for much more clinical investigation before BCG can become an established procedure in the practice of medicine, as has electrocardiography. x47