Over thiry-five experts contribute to this publication about the various interactions and interrelationships of the parameters which affect the normal and ischemic heart. Mechanical aspects related to the global and regional function of the heart are discussed. Coronary perfusion of the ischemic heart is considered, with emphasis on the effects of reperfusion. Electrical activation, formation of arrhythmias, and the effects of ischemia or ionic transport in the myocardium are presented. Metabolic aspects of the ischemic heart, including calcium transport, are also explained.

Proceedings of the Eighth Henry Goldberg Workshop in title], held December 1992, in Bethesda, Maryland. Thirty-eight contributions address electromechanical activation, mechanics and microcirculation, microcirculation and metabolic transport, remodeling of muscle and vessels, and cardiac function a

A number of basic molecular and subcellular interactions affect the activation and performance of the heart in ways of interest to cardiologists. The 32 papers from a December 1994 workshop in Haifa, Israel, make the link between basic science and clinical practice in the molecular mechanisms of sar

The focus of the conference was the pathway from basic genetics to cardiac function, highlighting the interface between structure and function at all levels of the cardiac system. The 30 papers strive to combine the analytical system approach and engineering principles with the multiple molecular an