Understanding Disease: How Your Heart, Lungs, Blood and Blood Vessels Function and Respond to Treatment

Using real clinical cases as examples, Dr. G. A. Langer demystifies fifteen diseases of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. In clear, understandable language, he explains the nature of the illness, the body functions it affects, and the course of treatment indicated in each patient, providing invaluable understanding of how the human body works and how it responds to disease and to medical intervention. This information is deliberately intended to be as understandable, interesting and rewarding to the lay person as to medical professionals and students.