Home is where the heart is

Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others. From the ‘home studios...

The textbook reveals a problem called "auscultation of the heart". Theoretical issues related to the origin of heart tones and noises are presented, classical and modern interpreta...

Abstract It is estimated that the worldwide population of patients suffering from heart failure is approximately 26 million. The ESC Textbook of Heart Failure is the...

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context ...

Abstract Taking the reader from an understanding of the basic mechanisms of heart failure through to an appreciation of the complexities of heart failure management ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, new diagnostic technologies were developed that provided unique visual information about the heart’s structure and function. Echocardiography uses ultra...

In recent decades, the prevalence of heart failure has steadily increased and can be considered a contemporary cardiovascular epidemic. Therefore, treatment of heart failure is a p...

In the past, the tasks of establishing psychological and practical independence were linked in time. Today, these transitions are no longer successively manageable sequences; rathe...