Principles of Cardiovascular Neural Regulation in Health and Disease: 6 - Brossura

Malliani, Alberto

 
9781461369714: Principles of Cardiovascular Neural Regulation in Health and Disease: 6

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This book is an attempt to indicate to researchers and clinicians a simple way to approach the complexity of cardiovascular neural regulation. A conceptual pillar like homeostasis is contrasted with instability and a continuous interaction of opposing mechanisms that have negative and positive feedback characteristics, and is considered to subserve the multitude of patterns pertaining to physiology. However, in pathophysiological conditions the final design is most often replaced by largely purposeless neural mechanisms.
The complexity of cardiovascular neural regulation, reflected by the state of sympathovagal balance, is also assessed in the frequency domain. Power spectrum analysis of heart rate and arterial pressure variability, a sophisticated but simply explained approach, provides an unprecedented tool to evaluate this interaction in both physiological and pathophysiological conditions. The elementary characteristics of nonlinear dynamics are also outlined. Finally, the need for an ethical structure for science and medicine is analyzed.

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Contenuti

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. General Concepts and Hypotheses in the Study of Cardiovascular neural Regulation. 2. Pathophysiological Mechanisms and the Loss of a Finalistic Purpose. 3. The Sympathovagal Balance Explored in the Frequency Domain. 4. Pathophysiological Alterations of Sympathovagal balance. 5. Variability and Nonlinear Dynamics. 6. The Necessary Apical Principle in Science and Medicine. Appendix for the general reader. References. Subject Index.

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Book by Malliani Alberto

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9780792377757: Principles of Cardiovascular Neural Regulation in Health and Disease: v. 6

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ISBN 10:  0792377753 ISBN 13:  9780792377757
Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 2000
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