Textbook of Vascular Medicine

Part 1: Anatomy and Physiology.

- Chapter 1: Anatomy and Pharmacology of Vessels.

- Chapter 2: Physiology of Vessels.

- Chapter 3: Cell Biology of Vessels.

- Chapter 4: Stem Cell Biology and the Cardiovascular System.

- Chapter 5: The Lymphatic System.

- Chapter 6: Imaging the vascular wall; from microscope to virtual reality.

- Chapter 7: Clinical Cardiovascular Imaging.

- Part 2: Pharmacology and Signalling.

- Chapter 8: Vascular Signalling.

- Chapter 9: Vasoactive Peptides: Renin Angiotensin System.

- Chapter 10: Aldosterone.

- Chapter 11: Nitric Oxide.

- Chapter 12: Reactive Oxygen Species.

- Chapter 13: TGF-beta in Vascular Pathobiology.

- Chapter 14: miRNA and IncRNA in the Vascular System.

- Chapter 15: Microparticles and Exosomes in Cell-Cell Communication.

- Part 3: Pathophysiology of Vascular Diseases.

- Chapter 16: Genomics of Hypertension.

- Chapter 17: Endothelial Dysfunction.

- Chapter 18: Vascular Remodelling.

- Chapter 19: Vascular Stiffness.

- Chapter 20: Atherosclerosis.

- Chapter 21: Inflammation and Immunity in Vascular Diseases.

- Chapter 22: Diagnostic and therapeutic targeting of inflammation.

- Chapter 23: Perivascular Adipose Tissue.

- Chapter 24: Vascular Biology of Chemotherapeutic Drugs.

- Chapter 25: Coronary Microvascular Disease.

- Chapter 26: Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment: Preclinical Aspects.

- Chapter 27: Ethnicity and Cardiovascular Disease.

- Part 4: Clinical Aspects.

- Chapter 28: Epidemiology of Vascular Diseases.

- Chapter 29: Early Vascular Ageing and Healthy Vascular Ageing.

- Chapter 30: Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Disease.

- Chapter 31: Hypertension.

- Chapter 32 Diabetic Retinopathy.

- Chapter 33: Ischaemic Heart Disease.

- Chapter 34: Pre-eclampsia.

- Chapter 35: Stable Coronary Artery Syndromes.

- Chapter 36: Heart Failure: HFrEF.

- Chapter 37 Heart Failure: HFpEF.

- Chapter 38 Renal Disease.

- Chapter 39 Obesity.

- Chapter 40 Diabetes.

- Chapter 41 Pulmonary.

- Hypertension.

- Chapter 42 Cerebral Small Vessel disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment.

- Chapter 43 Stroke.

- Chapter 44 Peripheral Vascular Disease.

- Chapter 45 Vascular malformations and tumours.