In recent months, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread globally, with the United States now reporting the highest number of ...

The need for dialysis access surgery is growing rapidly as the population of patients with end stage renal failure expands. This book is aimed at t...

Vasopressin is a hormone involved in water balance and osmoregulation. It is produced by the hypothalamus and released by the neuro-pituitary. In t...

This book is a topical review of venous disease providing an up-to-date view of management and current issues. It is aimed at professionals involve...

Thrombophilias can be defined as a group of inherited or acquired disorders that increase the risk of developing thrombosis. Venous thromboembolism...

Ventricular arrhythmias are the main cause of sudden arrhythmic death, a devastating situation that is tied to heart failure and its incidence is i...

Ventricular fibrillation is a cause of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. The ventricular muscle twitches randomly, rather than contracting i...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is defined as the retrograde flow of urine from the bladder to the upper urinary tract. It is a common urological entit...

Viruses have been linked to approximately 15 to 20% of all human tumours world-wide and their empire is expanding over the years. While histopathol...

Viral infection is a disease caused by micro-organisms, which invade a living cell and use its mechanisms to reproduce. Viruses need to colonise a ...

All visual information that the human mind receives is processed by a part of the brain known as visual cortex. The visual cortex is part of the ou...

The rising number of cases in visual disorders during development, over the last decade, has strongly influenced approaches to diagnosis and rehabi...

This book addresses a very interesting topic and offers a novel insight of the well-known Vitamin D. In the past, this molecule has been wrongly co...

Much of the progress in the understanding of the physiology of vitamin D and its role in calcium and phosphorus homeostasis has been made in recent...

This book focuses on the epidemiology, treatment and long-term outcomes of voice disorders. The first chapter proposes evidence based therapy for g...

von Willebrand disease (VWD) is an inherited bleeding disorder that is caused by deficiency or dysfunction of von Willebrand factor (VWF), a plasma...

This book reviews the world literature on elapsed times in the management of early breast cancer, with a particular focus on an amazingly wide vari...

The opening study included in West Nile Virus: Outbreaks, Control and Prevention Strategies aims to design and implement an efficient data-driven a...

By the end of 1997, more than 1.3 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed, and it is estimated that two of every three American families will...

This book presents an in-depth overview of the medical, psychosocial and sexuality issues that confront women affected by cancer.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system that affects over 2.4 million people world-wi...

Although stroke is not often thought of as a major health issue for women, in reality it is the second greatest killer of women in the world (with ...

This book examines working memory in pre-term and full-term infants at eight months after the expected date of delivery. Although numerous studies ...