Abstract : The present book mainly refers to the macroscopic scale,
although nano- and microscale pathophysiological mechanisms are described.
It includes 9~chapters. Chapters~1 and~2 describe the context, factors, and
processes involved in pathogenesis of cardiac diseases.
Chapter~3 is devoted to adverse cardiac remodeling, that is, fibrosis and
hypertrophy,
Chap.~4 to cardiomyopathies,
Chap.~5. to rhythm and conduction alterations,
Chap.~6. to cardiac valve diseases,
Chap.~7 to heart failure,
Chap.~8. to coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction, and
Chap.~9 to interventional medicine and surgery of cardiac diseases.
