Edited by J. D. Pickard N. Akalan, V. Benes Jr. C. Di Rocco, V. V. Dolenc J. Lobo Antunes, J. Schramm M. Sindou,Z. H. Rappaport 2011 Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery was conceived in 1972 by its founding fathers Jean Brihaye, Bernard Pertuiset, Fritz Loew and Hugo Krayenbuuhl at a combined meeting of the Italian and […]
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Edited by J. D. Pickard N. Akalan, V. Benes Jr. C. Di Rocco, V. V. Dolenc J. Lobo Antunes, J. Schramm M. Sindou 2011 As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons, our predecessors began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the […]
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R.G. González J.A. Hirsch M.H. Lev P.W. Schaefer L.H. Schwamm (Editors) 2011 Acute ischemic stroke is treatable, and our ability to treat patients with ischemic stroke continues to improve. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, important changes in stroke patient management have occurred, and many are reflected in these pages.
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Maria Grazia Bongiorni Editor 2011 From Simple Traction to Internal Transjugular Approach “I can do it … , I can do it… , I can do it. .. ” This affirmation could be read on pins on jackets of many participants of the Cardiac Pacing and Arrhythmology Congress in 1989. These simple words mean that a procedure […]
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D. Berdajs · M.I. Turina 2011 Books and articles on techniques in cardiac surgery date back to 1952, when the first successful closure of an atrial septal defect was performed. In all surgical disciplines, but particularly in cardiac surgery, success is greatly dependent upon the use of appropriate operative techniques.
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Laurie D. DeLeve Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao Editors 2011 Mechanisms and Management Functions of the liver are highly dependent on its vascular connections to the “outside world” (the gut and the splanchnic circulation) and the “inside world” (the heart and the systemic circulation).
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Robert Pelberg · Wojciech Mazur 2011 This book was written for the purpose of making vascular computed tomographic angiography easy and enjoyable. It is the second in our CT angiography series (see Cardiac CT Angiography Manual1) and is intended to be a useful summary of the field of vascular CT angiography.
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Norbert Pallua • Christoph V. Suschek Editors 2011 From Lab to Clinic Although efforts to generate bioartificial tissues and organs for human therapies date back to the 80s, these efforts have only come closer to reality in the past 10 years. The possibility of such bioartifical tissues has been fueled by major advances in cell and molecular biology […]
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Thomas Buck, Andreas Franke, Mark J. Monaghan (Editors) 2011 Real-time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography, which became commercially available in 2002, is the most recent, major advancement in echocardiography. Providing direct viewing of 3D cardiac surfaces during live scanning, it adds fundamentally new information to the echocardiographic assessment of heart diseases, and it has already significantly changed echocardiographic diagnoses.
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Editors David E. Beck Patricia L. Roberts Theodore J. Saclarides 2011 Drs. David Beck and Steven Wexner (Senior Editors) as well as the other members of the editorial board, Drs. Patricia Roberts, Theodore Saclarides, Michael Stamos, and Anthony Senagore, are to be congratulated on their successful completion of the second edition of the American Society of Colon and […]
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