Summary:
Thoroughly revised and updated, this Fourth Edition is the only
current book that integrates cellular and subcellular elements
of cardiovascular physiology in the analysis of physiologic and
pathophysiologic responses. In straightforward terms, with more
than 600 diagrams and illustrations, the book explains the key
principles crucial to understanding how the cardiovascular
system and its components function and malfunction.
For this edition, Dr. Opie has enlisted eight internationally
eminent co-authors and added a new chapter on cell signaling.
The chapters on physiology of the ECG and arrhythmias contain
many more ECGs. More than half of the illustrations (including
12 colour plates) are new.