Genetics and Gene Therapy -- Oligonucleotide Therapeutics to Treat Dyslipoproteinemia and Atherosclerosis -- Gene Delivery to Cardiovascular Tissue -- Animal Models to Study Vascular Disease -- Animal Models of Scleroderma: From Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms to Novel Antifibrotic Strategies -- Animal Models of Atherosclerosis -- Animal Models of the Endothelin System -- Molecules and Mediators and Therapeutic Applications -- Endothelin-1 and Systemic Sclerosis -- The Role of the Homeodomain Transcription Factor Nkx2-5 in the Cardiovascular System -- Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease -- Tissue-Engineered Vascular Substitutes: New Models Toward Successful Small Diameter Grafts -- Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue in Vascular Function -- Endothelium: Dysfunction and Repair -- Clinical Aspects of Vascular Biology -- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension -- Pathophysiology of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) -- Surgical Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) -- Imaging in Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease -- Vascular Disease in Connective Tissue Diseases -- PAH in CTD – Clinical Trials Criteria and Performance -- Disease Progression in Systemic Sclerosis Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension -- Connective Tissue Disease Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Special Cases? -- Advances in Vascular Medicine -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Coronary Heart Disease in Women -- Recent Strategies to Improve Graft Performance in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Are Best Results Achieved by Improved Surgical Techniques of Graft Preparation? -- Cardiovascular Risk Prediction by Measurement of Arterial Elastic Properties and Wall Thickness -- The Metabolic Syndrome.

Understanding the many complex cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying human vascular diseases is essential in improving the management of patients with this clinically important and wide-ranging group of diseases. This is particularly important when considering the extent of this issue across the world. Written by a team of world-renowned authorities, Advances in Vascular Medicine highlights some of the relationships between basic science and clinical medicine, and reviews both research and clinical practice methods and outcomes in vascular biology and pathobiology. It is an authoritative reference for these important topics of vascular biology and includes chapters that explain the clinical issues to the basic scientist as well as providing clinicians with a scientific grounding in vascular diseases. Although there is still much work to be done to advance understanding of vascular disease, the information and insights contained in this book are a vital contribution to the literature, giving scientists and clinicians the opportunity to learn more about this exciting field of biomedicine.