- Email: [email protected]
Die herzkatheterisierung bei angeborenen und erworbenen herzfehlern
Book
111~ HEKZICATHETEKISIRKUN(; EKWORBENEN HERZFEHLEKN. I’rof. Dr. F. Loogen, and gart, 1967, George Thieme IIM90. As
reviews
REI ANGERORENEN UND By Prof. Dr. 0. Bayer, Dr. H. H. Walter, StuttVerlag, 316 pages. Price:
the title states, this volume deals with cardiac catheterization in acquired and congenital abnormalities. This is its second edition. The authors divide their work into two main sections: general and specific. Under the first caption, technical equipment is considered. This covers, in a cursory fashion, such things as instruments for venous cardiac catheterization as well as apparatus for roentgenography, angiocardiography, and, inter alia, technique and apparatus for the various types of gas analysis. The second part deals with methods and ends with a l-l-page chapter on complications. Venous catheterization, the authors state, carries in adults a mortality of less than 0.1 per cent. They are quick to point out that the risk rapidly increases in children, especially during the first year of life. In a mixed population of their own patients, the authors experienced 8 fatalities in 10,000 examinations. The chief causes of death were cardiac arrhythmia (before the availability of electrical tlcfibrillators), the development of severe pulmonary edema in mitral stenosis, and perforation of the heart and coronary venous sinus. Some 200 pages are allocated to a systematic discussion of cardiac catheterization in congenital abnormalities and in acquired abnormalities. Profuse illustrations help the reader follow the problem that the authors are trying to solve, based on their experience with 10,000 cardiac catheterizations. Professor T. Grosse-Brockhoff states in the preface that this volume shows that Germans are c,npable of the “team approach” to a problem. The glossy paper and the many illustrations nc,count for the relative high price of this volume. The cardiologist with a good reading knowledge of German will find this to be a good book to have on his office shelf.
DIAGNOSTIK UND THERAPIE Vereinigung der Bad Nauheimer 1966, Dr. D. Steinkopff Verlag, trations, 23 tables. The
DER HERZFEHLER. Arzte, Darmstadt, 165 pages, 58 illus-
Proceedings of the 31st Sauheim Continuation Course are published in this volume. The thirteen articles cover most fundamental aspects of diagnosis and therapy of the various types of congenital and acquired valvular heart disease and
septal defects. Four articles on diagnosis (F. Loogen, pp. 7-18, M. Schlepper, pp. 46-65, E. Zdansky, pp. 66-72, and E. Liithy, p. 73-81) include well-established older methods as well as new ones. Liithy revives the use of the jugular and carotid pulses, which were more frequentI> used three or four decades ago; their cliagnostic value has been recently substantially increased by correlation with catheterization data. Surgery is represented by three articles (F. Linder, pp. 19-23, R. Knebel, p. 99, and W. Knothe, p. 122), but the latter’s extensive description of blind finger procedures on the initial valve are outdated by recent advances. Linder presents a material of 2,004 operated cases, a valuable addition to existing material. Knebel successfully uses functional exercise tests as indications for heart surgery, with changes in the venous pressure (in supine exercise) and the oxygen pulse as principal indices. Physical medicine and rehabilitation, inchrding “mobilizing” the thorax after cardiac surgery, is discussed by V. R. Ott (pp. 137-150), and dietar) and drug treatment by R. Aschenbremier (pp. 151-161). The volume contains a short outline of embryological development of the heart as the introductory article (H. Rollhguser, pp. l-6), as well as consideration of pathology (A’. Sandritter, pp. 24-30), immunological aspects (K. 0. \‘orlaender and B. Sarvan, pp. 31-45), and psychosomatic aspects (I,. Delius, pp. 82-98). Thus, the volume gives an interesting and informative cross section of present German cardiology.
HORMONII SI PATOLOGIA CARDIOVASCULARA. B> Dinu Alex. Popovici and Victor Sahleanu, Bucharest, 1966, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania. Because this book on the role of the hormones in cardiomyopathies is written in Rumanian, it will be of little use to those who are not acquainted with the language. Although there is a 15page summary in English, it is too brief to be of much value; this is also true of the summary in Russian. Many interesting findings are reported, and there is a review and discussion of the possible influence of the various hormones upon the heart muscle. I’athophysiologic reactions to hormones and discussions of various endocrine glands are included. A fairly good bibliography makes the book a useful source of material on the subject. However, those who are interested in detailed data will find it necessary to study the original reports. It is good to have contained in a single volume a summarization of the role of the hormone on the myocardium and its function.
111~ HEKZICATHETEKISIRKUN(; EKWORBENEN HERZFEHLEKN. I’rof. Dr. F. Loogen, and gart, 1967, George Thieme IIM90. As
reviews
REI ANGERORENEN UND By Prof. Dr. 0. Bayer, Dr. H. H. Walter, StuttVerlag, 316 pages. Price:
the title states, this volume deals with cardiac catheterization in acquired and congenital abnormalities. This is its second edition. The authors divide their work into two main sections: general and specific. Under the first caption, technical equipment is considered. This covers, in a cursory fashion, such things as instruments for venous cardiac catheterization as well as apparatus for roentgenography, angiocardiography, and, inter alia, technique and apparatus for the various types of gas analysis. The second part deals with methods and ends with a l-l-page chapter on complications. Venous catheterization, the authors state, carries in adults a mortality of less than 0.1 per cent. They are quick to point out that the risk rapidly increases in children, especially during the first year of life. In a mixed population of their own patients, the authors experienced 8 fatalities in 10,000 examinations. The chief causes of death were cardiac arrhythmia (before the availability of electrical tlcfibrillators), the development of severe pulmonary edema in mitral stenosis, and perforation of the heart and coronary venous sinus. Some 200 pages are allocated to a systematic discussion of cardiac catheterization in congenital abnormalities and in acquired abnormalities. Profuse illustrations help the reader follow the problem that the authors are trying to solve, based on their experience with 10,000 cardiac catheterizations. Professor T. Grosse-Brockhoff states in the preface that this volume shows that Germans are c,npable of the “team approach” to a problem. The glossy paper and the many illustrations nc,count for the relative high price of this volume. The cardiologist with a good reading knowledge of German will find this to be a good book to have on his office shelf.
DIAGNOSTIK UND THERAPIE Vereinigung der Bad Nauheimer 1966, Dr. D. Steinkopff Verlag, trations, 23 tables. The
DER HERZFEHLER. Arzte, Darmstadt, 165 pages, 58 illus-
Proceedings of the 31st Sauheim Continuation Course are published in this volume. The thirteen articles cover most fundamental aspects of diagnosis and therapy of the various types of congenital and acquired valvular heart disease and
septal defects. Four articles on diagnosis (F. Loogen, pp. 7-18, M. Schlepper, pp. 46-65, E. Zdansky, pp. 66-72, and E. Liithy, p. 73-81) include well-established older methods as well as new ones. Liithy revives the use of the jugular and carotid pulses, which were more frequentI> used three or four decades ago; their cliagnostic value has been recently substantially increased by correlation with catheterization data. Surgery is represented by three articles (F. Linder, pp. 19-23, R. Knebel, p. 99, and W. Knothe, p. 122), but the latter’s extensive description of blind finger procedures on the initial valve are outdated by recent advances. Linder presents a material of 2,004 operated cases, a valuable addition to existing material. Knebel successfully uses functional exercise tests as indications for heart surgery, with changes in the venous pressure (in supine exercise) and the oxygen pulse as principal indices. Physical medicine and rehabilitation, inchrding “mobilizing” the thorax after cardiac surgery, is discussed by V. R. Ott (pp. 137-150), and dietar) and drug treatment by R. Aschenbremier (pp. 151-161). The volume contains a short outline of embryological development of the heart as the introductory article (H. Rollhguser, pp. l-6), as well as consideration of pathology (A’. Sandritter, pp. 24-30), immunological aspects (K. 0. \‘orlaender and B. Sarvan, pp. 31-45), and psychosomatic aspects (I,. Delius, pp. 82-98). Thus, the volume gives an interesting and informative cross section of present German cardiology.
HORMONII SI PATOLOGIA CARDIOVASCULARA. B> Dinu Alex. Popovici and Victor Sahleanu, Bucharest, 1966, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania. Because this book on the role of the hormones in cardiomyopathies is written in Rumanian, it will be of little use to those who are not acquainted with the language. Although there is a 15page summary in English, it is too brief to be of much value; this is also true of the summary in Russian. Many interesting findings are reported, and there is a review and discussion of the possible influence of the various hormones upon the heart muscle. I’athophysiologic reactions to hormones and discussions of various endocrine glands are included. A fairly good bibliography makes the book a useful source of material on the subject. However, those who are interested in detailed data will find it necessary to study the original reports. It is good to have contained in a single volume a summarization of the role of the hormone on the myocardium and its function.