Published April, 2014
By Takeshi Nakano and Samuel Goldhaber
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Pulmonary embolism is a common but vexing illness. In the Diagnosis section, the relationship between venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism is explored, and exciting new findings are presented in the fields of echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging.

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Published April, 2014
By Kyuzo Aoki
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Since Langendorff's discovery of the role of calcium ions in muscle contraction in 1895, we have made immense progress in our knowledge of the role of the calcium ion in the excitation-contraction coupling of the arterial smooth mus cle.

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Published April, 2014
By Tsutomu Oyama, Kazuyuki Ikeda, Matsuyuki Doi, Tomiei Kazama and Kazuo Sato
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In April of 1991, 425 partICIpants from 18 countries met in Hamamatsu in Japan for the 6th International Symposium on Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care (lSCAIC).

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Published April, 2014
By Seisuke Tanaka, Shinichi Imura, Noriya Akamatsu, Hirohiko Azuma and Kazuhiko Sawai
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Published April, 2014
By Jiro Suzuki
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Cerebral stroke is a common and widespread phenomenon affecting a large number of the human population worldwide. This volume contains important contributions by leading clinicians and researchers in the field to the "International Symposium on Surgery for Cerebral Stroke" held in Sendai, Japan, May 24 - 27, 1987.

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Published April, 2014
By Toshifusa Nakajima, Eiichi Tahara, Mitsumasa Nishi, Heizaburo Ichikawa and Keiichi Maruyama
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Gastric cancer is still the most common cause of cancer death in the world, although in most countries, with the notable exception of the United States, its incidence is slowly declining.

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Published April, 2014
By Alberto Zanchetti and Teruo Omae
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Published April, 2014
By Michio Morio, Hirosato Kikuchi and Osafumi Yuge
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In susceptible individuals, malignant hyperthermia (MH) can be triggered by various anesthetics during surgery. Following on the results of more than 30 years of investigative efforts, the Third International Symposium on MH was held in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1994, immediately before the Seventh International Workshop on MH.

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Published April, 2014
By Kunio Okuda and Kamal G. Ishak
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Primary liver cancer is a rather unusual malignancy in that the incidence varies tremendously from one geographical area to another. In China alone, approximately 100 000 people die every year from primary liver cancer, mostly hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Published April, 2014
By Jean-Pierre Benhamou and Kunio Okuda
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The primary goal of this monograph, to provide a framework of patho physiology of portal hypertension with authoritative descriptions of the clinical and laboratory manifestations of various portal hypertensive dis orders, has clearly been achieved by these excellent contributions.

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