Advances in Vascular Medicine

1. Oligonucleotide Therapeutics to Treat Dyslipoproteinemia and Atherosclerosis
Ioannis Papaioannou, James S. Owen

2. Gene Delivery to Cardiovascular Tissue
Rachel Masson, Stuart A. Nicklin, Andrew H. Baker

3. Animal Models of Scleroderma: From Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms to Novel Antifibrotic Strategies
Mirko Manetti, Elena Neumann, Oliver Distler, Ulf Müller-Ladner

4. Animal Models of Atherosclerosis
Christopher Jackson, Ulrike Benbow, Andrew Bond, Deborah Galley, Claire Schwartz

5. Animal Models of the Endothelin System
Karoline Websky, Susi Heiden, Thiemo Pfab, Berthold Hocher

6. Endothelin-1 and Systemic Sclerosis
Jeremy D. Pearson, Xu Shi-wen, Sarah L. Howat, Christopher P. Denton, David J. Abraham

7. The Role of the Homeodomain Transcription Factor Nkx2-5 in the Cardiovascular System
Markella Ponticos

8. Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease
Jonathan R. Murrow, Saurabh S. Dhawan, Arshed A. Quyyumi

9. Tissue-Engineered Vascular Substitutes: New Models Toward Successful Small Diameter Grafts
Pedro D’Orléans-Juste, Dan Lacroix, Lucie Germain, François A. Auger

10. Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue in Vascular Function
Maria S. Fernández-Alfonso, Marta Gil-Ortega, Beatriz Somoza

11. Endothelium: Dysfunction and Repair
Muhiddin A. Ozkor, Jonathan R. Murrow, Arshed A. Quyyumi

12. Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Joanna Pepke-Zaba

13. Pathophysiology of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH)
Jay Suntharalingam, Nicholas W. Morrell

14. Surgical Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH)
David P. Jenkins

15. Imaging in Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease
Charlotte Cash, Joanne Cleverley

16. PAH in CTD – Clinical Trials Criteria and Performance
James R. Seibold

17. Disease Progression in Systemic Sclerosis Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Robin Condliffe

18. Connective Tissue Disease Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Special Cases?
Gerry Coghlan

19. Advances in Vascular Medicine
Anna Nuttall, Emma Derrett-Smith, Richard Stratton

20. Coronary Heart Disease in Women
Nanette K. Wenger, Leslee J. Shaw, Viola Vaccarino

21. Recent Strategies to Improve Graft Performance in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Are Best Results Achieved by Improved Surgical Techniques of Graft Preparation?
Rosa Baron, Michael R. Dashwood, Mikael Arbeus, Derek Filbey, Domingos S. R. Souza

22. Cardiovascular Risk Prediction by Measurement of Arterial Elastic Properties and Wall Thickness
Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Saurabh S. Dhawan, Arshed A. Quyyumi

23. The Metabolic Syndrome
Benjamin D. Mackie, David G. Harrison, A. Maziar Zafari

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Vascular Surgery, Human Physiology, Cardiac Surgery