Hot Topics in Cardiology - Editors-in-chief: Sergio Dalla Volta, Christopher P. Cannon
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Issue 19, 2010
HOT TOPICS IN CARDIOLOGY
New frontiers of aspirin therapy
ISBN: 978-88-6450-037-9
ISSN: 1973-9621
E-ISSN: 2036-0924
DOI: 10.4147/HTC-101900
Abstract
Since this monograph has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the first article.Influenza represents a major periodic threat to health, from a yearly winter excess of mortality due to endemic influenza to the socially devastating pandemics resulting from antigenic shifts. This was evidenced in the H1N1 “Spanish” flu of 1918 [1,2], which resulted in the deaths of between 20 to 50 million people and exceeded the mortality of the First World War [3]. As well as having a major impact in endemic years, pandemic influenza is a constant threat, as demonstrated recently by the occurrence of the high pathogenicity and low infectivity H5N1 (“bird” flu) and the high [...]
Presentation of:
Sergio Dalla Volta - MD, PhD
Christopher P. Cannon - MD
While cardiology over the last 15 years has progressed to a great extent in various aspects, it has not progressed in a harmonious manner. Advances in biophysics, molecular biology, genetics, and,...
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Past Editor-in-chief
† Philip A. Poole-Wilson - MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC, FMedSci
