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Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Disease: 33 (Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology) - Hardcover

 
9780824799021: Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Disease: 33 (Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 082479902X ISBN 13: 9780824799021
Publisher: CRC Press, 1998

Synopsis

An invaluable reference for clinicians and researchers alike, this book offers a thorough review and analysis of all aspects of saphenous vein bypass graft disease-from preventive surgical techniques to various mechanisms of graft failure in patients.
Assesses the potential for molecular and genetic therapies to improve vascular graft patency!
Pooling the experience of over 25 coronary specialists, Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Disease

  • describes early and late structural changes in veins used as aortocoronary conduits
  • outlines directional coronary atherectomy and transluminal extraction atherectomy
  • focuses on the pathologic changes resulting from saphenous vein balloon angioplasty
  • analyzes postsurgical complications such as congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, hemorrhage, and infection
  • examines grafts of the internal thoracic, gastroepiploic, and inferior epigastric arteries
  • identifies the role of noninvasive testing methods, including stress echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging
  • discusses graft failure mechanisms such as early graft thrombosis, intimal hyperplasia, and late graft atherosclerosis
  • reviews clinical data regarding risk factor control after surgical revascularization
  • and more!
    Complete with more than 800 figures and references, Saphenous Vein Bypass Graft Disease benefits cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons; cardiovascular pathologists; angiologists; internists; pharmacologists; intensive care, emergency, and primary care physicians; and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

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    Review

    "All chapters are well illustrated and many graphs and grayscale photographs of coronary arteriographic and histologic examinations of venous bypass grafts. this book is very complete and canserve as an important reference for cardiologists and cardiac surgeons who almost daily deal with this important clinical problem. "-Acta Cardiologia

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    Publisher
    CRC Press
    Publication date
    1998
    Language
    English
    ISBN 10 
    082479902X
    ISBN 13 
    9780824799021
    Binding
    Hardcover
    Edition number
    1
    Number of pages
    352
    Editor
    Bates Eric R.