100 Questions & Answers About Valvular Heart Disease


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Empower yourself!Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with valvular heart disiease, a survivor, or friend or relative of someone with valvular heart disease, this book offers help. 100 Questions & Answers About Valvular Heart Disease gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options and provides sources of support from both the doctor's and patient's viewpoints. Included are improved surgical procedures, noninvasive techniques for surveillance of left ventricular function, guidelines for the timing of surgery, and the role of drug therapy in the management of valvular heart disease. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this disease.




Treating and Beating Heart Disease: A Consumer's Guide to Cardiac Medicines


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Treating and Beating Heart Disease is an accurate, up-to-date guide to the cardiac medicines currently prescribed in the United States. This valuable manual provides answers to patient questions about their medication, presenting possible side effects of each medicine; and emphasizing the important role of doctor-patient comunication in overall health. This comprehensive and concise manual elevates communication in healthcare by providing patients with the information they need to better understand medication Women's Heart Foundation (WHF) is a 501c3 charity and the only non-governmental organization that designs and implements demonstration projects for prevention of heart disease. Our mission is to improve survival and quality of life by institutionalizing women’s heart care and wellness




The Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Out About Heart Disease


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Heart disease affects millions of people every year. The MLA Guide to Finding Out About Heart Disease organizes and offers evaluated print and online resources to help readers develop a collection or research specific medical options, incorporating important data and key concepts about risk factors and symptoms of heart disease.




Valvular Heart Disease


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Challenges for the treatment of valvular heart disease include the growing need for effective yet less invasive interventions and therapies to treat these progressive conditions. With the development of potential new treatments, it is crucial for cardiac physicians to be well informed on the pathophysiology, assessment, treatment options and their outcomes of valvular diseases. Written by a highly experienced and internationally recognized group of cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and researchers, Valvular Heart Disease offers insights into the widely varying hemodynamic effects and clinical course of heart valve conditions, as well as the contemporary management of these conditions. Offering a broad perspective on these diseases, Valvular Heart Disease expands on the recent guidelines developed by the major heart societies in the United State and Europe.




100 Questions & Answers About Brain Tumors


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Whether you’re a newly diagnosed brain tumor patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. Completely revised and updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Brain Tumors, Second Edition gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. The authors, a brain tumor survivor teamed with a neuro-oncologist specializing in brain tumors, provide a comprehensive, step-by-step discussion of what you can expect in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors, while providing a real-life understanding of what these steps might mean for your day-to-day life. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.




100 Questions & Answers About Endometriosis


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This book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about endometriosis, including treatment options and coping strategies, and provides sources of support from both the doctor's and patient's viewpoints.




100 Questions & Answers About Influenza


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Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population becomes sick with influenza (the flu); more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 people die from flu. Some people - such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions - are at high risk for serious flu complications. 100 Questions and Answers About Influenza provides answers to 100 most common questions about influenza, with emphasis on new strains of the disease including the Avian Influenza.




100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Cancer


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This volume provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by prostate cancer patients, their friends and relatives. It gives positive, practical information about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support and much more.




100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer


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Newly Revised and Updated! Whether you're a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the patient’s and doctor’s views, this completely updated third edition of this best-selling book gives you up-to-date, authoritative, practical answers to your questions about breast cancer, including risk factors and prevention, diagnosis and treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Now including an entire new section on the impact of cancer on sexuality, intimacy and fertility, 100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer, Third Edition is written by a prominent breast cancer advocate and survivor and by a cancer surgeon.The book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.




100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Epilepsy


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About 2-2.3 million people in the US suffer from epilepsy; one-third of them are children. Whether you have a child who has been diagnosed with epilepsy or know someone who's child suffers from seizures, this book offers help. 100 Questions and amp; Answers About Your Child's Epilepsy provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions posed by parents and the adolescents themselves. the only text to provide the doctor's and patient's point of view, 100 Questions and amp; Answers About Your Child's Epilepsy discusses the different types of seizures, diagnostic tests, treatments, and much