Cytokines and the Heart:: Molecular Mechanisms of Septic Cardiomyopathy

by Ursula Müller-Werdan and Christopher Reithmann

This book is about the molecular mechanisms underlying septic cardiomyopathy, a main feature of septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, which are the leading causes of death in intensive care patients. Cytokines play a very prominent pathogenetic role in this myocardial depression, with septic cardiomyopathy being the cardiac disease entity, where knowledge about cytokine action on the heart has most accumulated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540601759
• ISBN13: 9783540601753
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 260 Pages