Surgery of the Aorta and Its Body Branches (Modern Trends in Vascular Surgery)

This volume collects 51 papers from the most recent meetings of the Northwestern U. Vascular Symposium. The first commercially available compendium of papers from the symposia in half a decade, it highlights recent advancements of diagnosis and management of aortic disease. The editors (all of the Division of Vascular Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern U.) have organized the contributions into sections focused on current issues of open surgery in the era of endovascular surgery, contemporary open techniques for abdominal aortic aneurysms, open surgical treatment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, reoperative aortic surgery, clinical trials in open versus endovascular repair in abdominal aortic aneurysms, the debate over endovascular repair as the gold standard for good risk patients, minimally invasive techniques for treatment of aortic and iliac aneurysms, hybrid procedures for complex aortic aneurysms, endovascular graft for rupture aortic aneurysm, management of complications during and after endovascular repair, new findings in thoracic aortic endovascular technology, aortic dissection, renal artery revascularization, and mesenteric ischemia. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)