Overview
- Discusses treatments in bone disorders and ongoing therapeutic efforts in cardiovascular calcification
- Provides clinical strategies that may be applicable to many types of cardiovascular diseases
- Examines the physiological and pathological processes of cardiovascular and ectopic calcification as well as bone mineralization
- Aggregates knowledge from across disparate calcification disciplines
Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology (CONCARD)
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Cardiovascular Calcification and Bone Mineralization is an essential resource for clinicians, researchers, and other medical professionals in cardiology, pathology, and biomedical engineering.
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Keywords
- Aortic valve calcification
- Atherosclerosis and calcification
- Bone formation and calcification
- Cardiovascular and ectopic calcification
- Cardiovascular calcification and bone formation
- Cardiovascular disease and calcification
- Ectopic mineralization
- Imaging of early calcification
- Peripheral arterial disease and calcification
- Vascular calcification
Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bone Mineralization
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Imaging, Treatment, and Target Discovery
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Director, Heart Valve Translational Research Program (HVTRP)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Joshua D. Hutcheson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomolecular Sciences Institute
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cardiovascular Calcification and Bone Mineralization
Editors: Elena Aikawa, Joshua D. Hutcheson
Series Title: Contemporary Cardiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46725-8
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46724-1Published: 02 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46727-2Published: 02 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46725-8Published: 01 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-8969
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 563
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Pathology, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology