McDonald's Blood Flow in Arteries: Theoretical, Experimental and Clinical Principles

by Wilmer W. Nichols (Editor), Michael O'Rourke (Editor), Elazer R. Edelman (Editor), Charalambos Vlachopoulos (Editor)

Overview

For over sixty years, McDonald's Blood Flow in Arteries has remained the definitive reference work in the field of arterial hemodynamics, including arterial structure and function with special emphasis on pulsatile flow and pressure. Prestigious, authoritative and comprehensive, this seventh edition has been totally updated and revised with many new chapters. This edition continues to provide the theoretical basis required for a thorough understanding of arterial blood flow in both normal and pathological conditions, while keeping clinical considerations and readability paramount throughout.

Key Features

• The definitive reference work on arterial hemodynamics
• Fully updated and revised to cover all recent advancements in the field

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351253741
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/16/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	853
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Wilmer Nichols, PhD., is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. His career has been dedicated to the investigation of structure and function of the heart and arterial system in age and arterial disease. He has published over 200 articles in peer reviewed journals; books include the 6th edition of McDonald’s Blood Flow in Arteries. Among his many awards are Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Artery Society of Europe and the North American Artery Society.

Dr. Michael O’Rourke, MD, DSc., is Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Cardiologist at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. His basic research training was in arterial hemodynamics, working on experimental animals and computer models with Michael Taylor (Sydney) and William Milnor (Baltimore). He has published over 500 articles in peer reviewed journals; books include the 6th edition (2011) of McDonald’s Blood Flow in Arteries. Recent research is into cardiovascular aging, using new methods of pulse waveform analysis to detect, explain and treat ill-effects on the heart and brain from midlife in asymptomatic subjects.

Dr. Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD., is the Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts where he directs the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a cardiac intensive care unit cardiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Charalambos Vlachopoulos MD is Professor of Cardiology at the 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, University of Athens Medical School with clinical interests in hypertension and interventional cardiology. Professor Vlachopoulos is currently Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group "Peripheral Circulation" and President of the Artery Society. Together with Wilmer Nichols and Michael O’Rourke he has authored the 6th Edition of "McDonald’s Blood Flow in Arteries". He has lectured extensively in international conferences. He is a member of the Board of Hypertension, Artery Research, and Hellenic Journal of Cardiology and a Reviewer for numerous Medical Journals.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Anatomy of the heart and circulation

3 The nature of flow of a liquid

4 Properties of the arterial wall: theory and practice

5 Endothelial cells and hemodynamics

6 General principles for measuring arterial waves

7 Pulsatile pressure–flow relations

8 Arterial wave reflections

9 Contours of pressure and flow waves in arteries

10 Principles of recording and analysis of arterial waveforms

11 Vascular impedance

12 Coupling of the left ventricle with the systemic circulation: implications to cardiac failure

13 The pulmonary circulation and impedance

14 The Specialized Circulations in Susceptible Tissues

15 Aging

16 Hypertension

17 Interpretation of blood pressure in epidemiological studies and clinical trials

18 Arterial biomarkers

19 Arteriosclerosis and Atherosclerosis

20 Specific arterial disease

21 Generalized and metabolic disease

22 Emergence of therapeutic strategies

23 Endovascular implants

24 Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise

25 Central arterial pressure

26 Lifestyle and environment

27 Arterial pressure waveform analysis

Editorial Reviews

4 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: Kara E Gilliam, BA, MD/MPH Candidate(East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine)
Description: This book is a multi-authored, seventh edition reference text that surveys pulsatile flow and its physiologic properties, such as pressure and waves.
Purpose: This book explores clinical implications and potential application of pulsatile flow in human arteries. This seventh edition provides updates in technologies, biomarkers, diseases, and other cardiovascular discoveries since 2011.
Audience: This book is intended most specifically for cardiologists, but also applies to any physician, mid-level provider, or medical student. The individual chapters are authored by internationally recognized experts in their respective fields.
Features: This book contains 27 chapters covering the physics of pulsatile flow, human cardiovascular anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system, specialized flow to organ systems, flow during disease processes, and all of the aforementioned topics' applications to clinical practice. Throughout the book, there are evidence-based graphs and equations with a few supplemental illustrations to help conceptualize the presented information, all with their corresponding references.
Assessment: This book is informationally sound with exquisite detail and focus on the physics of the cardiovascular system. The content is primarily based in physical equations. It is imperative that readers have a high degree of graphical literacy and understanding of physics, otherwise the content can be too complex. Overall, this book is a valuable resource for cardiologists, physicians, mid-level providers, and medical students in understanding how the human cardiovascular system operates and why.

Doody's Review Service

"...rich in theoretical, experimental, and clinical principles. It is structured in a manner which provides quick reference to specific topics, or access to an inclusive body of knowledge that allows the beginner to advance to a comprehensive understanding of cardiovascular hemodynamics."— Doody's Review Service

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