Editors: Takashi Kunihara, Shuichiro Takanashi 2019 Concepts and Approaches According to statistics published by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2012, mitral valvuloplasty accounted for 66% of the total number of isolated mitral valve surgeries during that year in Japan, whereas aortic valvuloplasty accounted for only 4%. Aortic valvuloplasty was also only performed in […]
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Editors: Diego Preciado, Susan Verghese 2019 Advanced Approaches and Techniques The management of pediatric airway disorders has seen tremendous progress in surgical techniques and advancements over the past 30 years. From the introduction of novel endoscopic instrumentation, to improved open airway reconstructive techniques, the evolution of surgical approaches to improve outcomes in children with airway […]
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Editors: M. M. Begani, Dheeraj V. Mulchandani, Shagufta Choudhary 2019 Successful day surgery depends on teamwork across the patient pathway from the surgeon, anaesthetist and surgeon. Day surgery is not new and is possible to achieve, using a large variety of anaesthetic methods, both old and new. However, there is no doubt that the newer […]
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Ahmed H. Al-Salem 2017 The field of pediatric urology is rapidly growing and currently it is considered as a subspecialty. Pediatric urologists and pediatric surgeons care for newborns, infants, and children with congenital and acquired urological conditions. I have written this book with more than 20 years’ experience in the care of infants and children […]
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Editors: Luciano Mastronardi, Takanori Fukushima, Alberto Campione 2019 Improving Results with New Technologies The aim of this book is to report the results of microsurgical removal of acoustic neuromas (AN) using new technologies: flexible handheld laser fibers, Sonopet Ultrasound Aspirator, Facial Nerve “detector” monopolar stimulation (to localize position and course of nerve), BAERs with LS […]
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Editor Akihito Yokoyama 2019 Bronchial asthma is one of the common diseases among the Japanese, accounting for about 6 10% of the population. A rising prevalence of allergic diseases, such as asthma, had been observed in the past 20–30 years and had been attributed to both Western lifestyle and fewer infections. However, this prevalence has […]
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Editors: Sofia Llahana, Cecilia Follin, Christine Yedinak, Ashley Grossman 2019 With Paediatric Editors Kate Davies and Margaret F. Keil We are extremely pleased and proud that our ambitious idea to write the first ever published book for endocrine nurses has finally come to fruition. We wanted this to be a useful resource for endocrine nurses […]
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Mona Sazgar, Michael G. Young 2019 Essentials for Trainees Throughout my academic career as an epileptologist, I had the pleasure of teaching epilepsy and EEG to more than 30 epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology fellows and hundreds of neurology residents and students. I passionately encouraged trainees to take up a career in epilepsy and attempted to make the […]
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George S. Everly, Jr., Jeffrey M. Lating 2019 Fourth Edition In 1981, Robert Rosenfeld and I (GSE) wrote The Nature and Treatment of the Stress Response. The book was the first of its kind integrating psychophysiology and neuroendocrinology with clinical psychology and psychiatry to achieve two specific goals: to improve our understanding of the complex […]
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Editor Yi Wang 2019 ABO blood group incompatibility kidney transplantation(ABOi-KT) started in the 1980s. The country which has accumulated a wealth of experience is Japan. In the early days, to implement of this kind of transplant, the doctors were working to remove the native preexisting antibodies and decrease the number of B cells in the […]
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