Vascular Surgery Principles and Practice

Аннотация

Vascular surgery is a challenging and exciting discipline that has redefined itself during the last decade. Our interface with colleagues from vascular medicine, cardiology, and interventional radiology has resulted in new treatments and the performance of less invasive procedures for management of carotid occlusive disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and peripheral vascular insufficiency. Including coronary artery disease, observed in many of our patients, vascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in this country. In the third edition of Vascular Surgery: Principles and Practice, our approach has been to present a single comprehensive source of information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutic options for surgeons and other specialists in our field. Chapters from the second edition have been extensively revised and new chapters have been added on the evolving practice in endovascular surgery. Insofar as possible, technical updates and descriptions have been added to each chapter detailing new techniques used in surgical and endovascular procedures. However, we have also retained the popular final chapter describing the classical operations for correction of vascular disorders.