This book follows the concept of perceiving the entire aorta as one functional organ assuming that all individual pathologies and local interventional procedures affect the up- and downstream segments with consequences for complications...

The discovery of vitamins in the early 1900s, their later chemical characterization and the clarification of pivotal metabolic functions are sequential aspects of a brilliant chapter in the history of modern nutritional sciences and...

Die Herzchirurgie zählt zu den modernsten chirurgischen Disziplinen. Operationen sind fester Teil der Behandlung bei komplexen Herzerkrankungen. Sie konkurrieren aber auch zunehmend mit interventionellen Verfahren. Das Buch bietet einen...