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Nutrition and Healthy Weight
Nutrition and heart healthy quality diets are essential components of prevention and management of cardiovascular disease. In this chapter, the...
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Tobacco, Alcohol, and Substance Cessation
Excessive use of alcohol and any amount of tobacco increases a person’s risk of develo** cardiovascular disease and experiencing a heart attack or...
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Human Genetics of Tricuspid Atresia and Univentricular Heart
Tricuspid atresia (TA) is a rare congenital heart condition that presents with a complete absence of the right atrioventricular valve. Because of the...
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Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Cardiomyopathies
Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders of the heart muscle that ultimately result in congestive heart failure. Rapid progress in...
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Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Arrhythmias
Arrhythmias account for over 300,000 annual deaths in the United States, and approximately half of all deaths are associated with heart disease....
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Cardiac Metabolism
The heart is composed of a heterogeneous mixture of cellular components perfectly intermingled and able to integrate common environmental signals to...
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Recording of ECG
After studying this chapter, the reader will learn about:
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Clinical Presentation and Therapy of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries
d-Transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) is the most common form of congenital heart disease that presents with cyanosis in a newborn. The aorta...
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Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Ebstein’s Anomaly
Ebstein’s anomaly is a congenital malformation of the tricuspid valve characterized by abnormal attachment of the valve leaflets, resulting in...
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Right Axis Deviation
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Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of Atrioventricular Septal Defect
The development of a fully functional four-chambered heart is critically dependent on the correct formation of the structures that separate the...
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Molecular Pathways and Animal Models of d-Transposition of the Great Arteries
During normal cardiovascular development, the outflow tract becomes septated and rotates so that the separate aorta and pulmonary trunk are correctly...
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Inflow Tract Development
The development of the inflow tract is undoubtedly one of the most complex remodeling events in the formation of the four-chambered heart. It...
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Epigenetics
Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes to the genome and gene expression patterns that are not caused by direct changes to the DNA sequence....
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Congenital Coronary Blood Vessel Anomalies: Animal Models and the Integration of Developmental Mechanisms
Coronary blood vessels are in charge of sustaining cardiac homeostasis. It is thus logical that coronary congenital anomalies (CCA) directly or...
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ECG Paper and Leads
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Ventricular Hypertrophy
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Neural Crest
This chapter discusses the role of cardiac neural crest cells in the formation of the septum that divides the cardiac arterial pole into separate...
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Regeneration of the Skin and Peripheral Nerves in the Adult
In response to severe injury to the skin or peripheral nerves, adult mammals typically undergo an irreversible repair process that results in...
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Biomarkers of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Its Healing Progress
There are urgent, unmet needs in the field of biomarkers of diabetic wound healing. Rapidly develo** molecular technologies supported by the...