Bücher der Reihe International Boehringer Mannheim Symposia

International Symposium, Mainz, Germany, October 1-2, 1979 at the Akademie der Wissenschaften. Organized by the 1. Med. Dep. of the University of Mainz

International Symposium, Munchen, Germany, June 13-16, 1979

Primary myocardial disease, nowadays referred to as congestive or, more re cently, dilating cardiomyopathy, comprises disorders of varied etiology.

On behalf of the organizing committee of this symposium, I would like to wel come you to Cologne and thank you very much for coming. Five years later in 1975 at a third symposium in Cologne, we discussed the problems of central nervous control of sodium balance in relation to the renin-angiotensin system.

The nitrates have remarkable clinical effects that have stood the test of time in the management of ischemic heart disease.

Under the auspices of the European Society of Cardiology

In spite of old vintage and 200 years of clinical use, digitalis remains an interesting therapeutic agent, to clinicians as well as to the pharmacologist, the biochemist, and colleagues in other diciplines of theoretic medicine.