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A pioneering approach to overcoming high blood pressure. If you are one of the millions of people diagnosed with high blood pressure, this groundbreaking book can change your life.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair and cardiac arrest.

娘の命を救うために不可能に挑んだ家族の物語。【映画「ディア・ファミリー」原作】娘の心臓に残された時間はたった10年――。運命に抗った家族の愛の物語。生まれながらに心臓に疾患を持っていた娘は、医師から余命10年を宣告される。

When the actress Debbie Reynolds died a day after her beloved daughter, Carrie Fisher, we interpreted it as literal 'heartbreak'. But what's the evidence? How do times of emotional upheaval affect the heart? Can love, or exercise, really heal our heart problems? And why do we know so much about heart attacks in men when they are more fatal in women? Can You Die of a Broken Heart? is a fascinating insight into the workings of our most vital organ and how our emotions and lifestyle affect its every beat.

Hvordan er hjertet konstrueret? Hvordan fungerer kredsløbet? Hvem styrer som en anden dirigent de elektriske impulser? Har giraffen et højt blodtryk? Er det sundt at løbe et maraton? Hvorfor får så mange en blodprop om mandagen? Kan man virkelig dø af grin? Ja, det kan man godt, men det er svært, til gengæld kan man dø af et sorgfuldt hjerte.Over en halv million danskere lider af hjerte-kar-sygdomme. Vi dør ganske vist mindre af dem end for få år siden, men vi får dem stadig.

As cardiopatias congênitas acometem, mundialmente, 28% dos casos de patologias congênitas. Isso significa que a cada 1000 crianças nascidas vivas, 8 delas serão portadoras dessas doenças. Muito já se estudou a respeito de seus cuidadores: sobre a família, os médicos, os enfermeiros e os psicólogos hospitalares. Mas e as próprias crianças? O que podemos dizer sobre elas e seu sofrimento? Como percebem seus corações adoecidos? Entendem as causas? O que fantasiam sobre estarem doentes no órgão que, culturalmente, associamos à fonte dos nossos sentimentos?

In The Beating Heart, Robin Choudhury explores how the heart has been represented over time and across cultures. He investigates the interplay between the heart depictions of successive eras and the prevailing cultural discourse – religious, social, philosophical – of each. In parallel, he considers how the ‘scientific’ understanding of the function of the heart has unfolded over 2,500 years, from the observations of Aristotle, through detailed anatomical descriptions beginning in the Renaissance, to the emergence of experimental physiology in the 17th century.