Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition.

Abstract

Richard R. Stack, Gary S. Roubin, William W. O’Neill, eds. 976 pp. Philadelphia, Pa: Churchill Livingstone; 2002. $189. ISBN 0-443-07979-X. This book contains an extensive body of information of both theoretical and practical importance to all interventional cardiologists and succeeds admirably in merging practical and pragmatic techniques with solid scientific evidence. The editors have organized the contributions of the 93 contributors into 7 sections in this second edition, state-of-the-art review of the major clinical subject areas of interventional cardiovascular medicine. The first section is a historical perspective that deals with the topic of comprehensive interventional therapy and highlights the significant shift among interventional cardiologists into the field of peripheral vascular intervention, where their ability to modify risk factors of atherosclerosis and the increased recognition of atherosclerotic vascular disease is predicted to significantly improve patient outcomes. Section two addresses intervention and the atherosclerotic vessel, with emphasis on the vascular biology of mechanical intervention, the pathology of atherosclerotic plaques, the various mechanical interventions, and an overview of the vascular biology of restenosis, and includes …