In January 1980, the First Symposium on the Measurement of Tis sue Oxygen Pressure in Patients was held in Frankfurt. After a 4-year "rest period," the organizers of the 1984 symposium, Profes sor R. Huch of Zurich and Dr. J. Hauss of Munster, together with myself, extended another invitation to come to Frankfurt to find out what had gone on in the field of oxygen pressure measurement and its application in clinical medicine. As the following presentations will show, the application of oxygen pressure measurements has been broadened considerably. Furthermore, technological advances have been...

Es freut mich, dal3 Albrecht M. Ehrly, der Autor von "Therapeutische Hamorheologie," mich gebeten hat, ein Vorwort fur dieses Buch zu schreiben. Die Hamorheologie bleibt weiterhin das aktivste Gebiet der Biorheologie. Die Biorheolo gie als organisierte Wissenschaft begann im Jahre 1948, als ich beim 1. Intemationalen Kongrel3 der Rheologie in Scheveningen, Holland, meinen Plenarvortrag "Rheological Problems in Biology" hielt und darin den Begriff "Biorheologie" einftihrte. Biorheologie beinhaltet das Studium der Deformation und des Fliel3ens von biologischen Systemen oder von Materialien...

Hemorheologic therapy has gained considerably in importance in recent years. This detailed and comprehensive book enumerates, discusses, and critically evaluates those treatment methods in which therapeutic success rests essentially on achieving an improvement in hemodynamics. After a general account of clinical hemorheology, fundamental aspects of hemorheologic methods and the eval- uation and assessment of hemorheologic parameters are discussed and the pathophysiology is described in detail. The treatment methods and substances that bring about improvement of the hemodynamics are described...