Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, 2nd ed

✍ Scribed by Robert Wityk

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(200008)48:2<273::aid-ana31>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

The appearance of this volume is both apposite and timely. Exciting new insights have exploded our understanding of the neural control of the circulation. At all levels, this neurocardiac influence has profound implications, including in the development of cardiac arrhythmias, in the etiology of sudden cardiac death, in the formation of atheroma, and in the genesis of myocardial ischemia/infarction and hypertension. This small but comprehensive volume, in which the excitement of these developments is enthusiastically conveyed, beautifully imparts this new understanding. From cortical involvement in the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias to the role of the brain in the production of hypertension and the psychophysiology of stress and its cardiovascular concomitants, topics are discussed with a completeness and vibrancy that makes this book a requirement for every practitioner's library: for the cardiologist, because of the insights into mechanisms of cardiac pathophysiology, for the neurologist because of the explanation of the cardiovascular concomitants of neurological disease, and for the generalist because of the explanatory sections related to stress, hypertension, inflammation, and myocardial ischemia.

My few concerns are those of any reviewer of a multiauthored book with a strong international component: there is some degree of repetition of chapter content; some of the use of English is eccentric; and a literary Heimlich maneuver could be applied to one or two chapters so that the point could be coughed up a little earlier. These shortcomings are minor; the achievement is major, and all physicians should possess a copy.