The Cardiac Lymphatic System

Part I: Anatomy of the Cardiac Lymphatic System.- A General Outline of the Cardiac Lymphatic System.- Development and Patterning of the Cardiac Lymphatic Network.- Part II: The Cardiac Lymphatics and Heart Disease.- The Link between Lymphatic Obstruction and Congenital Heart Disease.- Role of Lymphatics in Atherogenesis, Myocardial Infarction, Congestive Heart Failure, and Cardiac Transplantation.- The Lymphatics in Normal and Pathological Heart Valves.- Myocardial Lymphatic Changes during Terminal Heart Failure.- Imaging the Lymphatic System in Heart Transplantation and Its Immunological Implications.- Part III: Cardiac Lymphatic Signaling.- Tie Receptor Signaling in Cardiac Lymphangiogenesis.- VEGF Receptor Signaling in the Cardiac Lymphatics.- Hypoxia and the Cardiac Lymphatics.- The Potential of the Epicardium to Act as a Source of Lymphatic Cells.- Index.