Cardiovascular research in CLINICS

Cardiovascular research in CLINICS

CLINICS is a multidisciplinary medical journal. This editorial highlights the field of cardiovascular research. We have selected papers published from 2011-2012 and focused on the concept of Continuously Variable Rating, which we have recently introduced as an alternative and hopefully superior method for evaluating published scientific papers (1). Ciolac and Greve (2) compared the heart rate r...

Pneumological research in Clinics

Anciaes et al. (2) induced experimental emphysema in BALB/c mice and found that morphometric parameters were more reliable for detecting its presence than the functional parameters measured with respiratory mechanics. Bosch et al. (3) report that a quick diagnosis unit currently being used in a Spanish public university hospital represents a useful and cost-saving model for diagnosing patients ...

gene therapy in cardiovascular research

Adventures in cardiovascular research.

This article, derived from an invited Distinguished Scientist lecture presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in 2007, reviews 4 themes (adventures) in clinical cardiovascular research carried out over a period of 58 years. It begins with the author's introduction to cardiovascular hemodynamics during a medical school elective in 1951. The 4 adventures include valvular h...

Cardiovascular Research in Germany.

Introduction: Development of Cardiovascular Research German academic cardiovascular medicine has been traditionally rigidly separated into clinical cardiology, where the top clinicians had some early career basic science exposure but practiced exclusively clinical medicine, and classic basic science departments, that is, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology, where the chair had a cardiovascu...