Heart of darkness

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...

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...

Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807–1896), the man for whom the Paki...

The monochrome - a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas - remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions. But whilst the manufacture of t...

A book of consolation and compassion, offering encouragement and hope from the Psalms For those who are made to endure betrayal, affliction, adversity and suffering, the ...