文档介绍：To Alice and Raffaella
my beloved daughters.
Never give up your dreams,
but believe in what you desire
and in what you do:
only thus will you find
the courage that is within you.
M. M. Gulizia (Editor)
Emerging Pathologies
in Cardiology
Proceedings of the
Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting
(Taormina, April 7-9, 2005)
1 3
M. M. Gulizia, MD
Chief of Cardiology Division
S. Luigi - S. Currò Hospital
Catania, Italy
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Preface
Clinical practice is evolving at a rapid pace, nowhere more so than in the field of
cardiology. Acute Coronary Synd