Vascular Medicine
Therapy and Practice
| Thomas Zeller, MDProfessorHead of the Department Angiology,Clinic Cardiology and Angiology IIUniversity Heart Center Freiburg-Bad KrozingenBad Krozingen, Germany | William A. Gray, MDDirector, Endovascular ServicesAssociate Professor of MedicineCenter for Interventional Vascular Therapy atColumbia University Medical CenterPresbyterian HospitalNew York, USA |
| Thomas Cissarek, MDDepartment of Angiology, Phlebology,Vascular SurgeryGefaesskrankheiten Rhein-RuhrEssen, Germany | Knut Kröger, MDProfessorHead, Department of AngiologyHELIOS Hospital KrefeldKrefeld, Germany |
| Assistant EditorJerzy Wojciuk, MD, LRCP Edin,LRCS Edin, LRCPS Glasg, MRCP (UK)Lancashire Cardiac CentreBlackpoolLancashire, UK | |
2nd edition
With contributions by
Jens Achenbach, Farzin Adili, Helene Arns, Ali Aydin, Jörn O. Balzer, Kai M. Balzer, Ulrich Beschorner, Friedheim Beyersdorf, Hans-Georg Bone, Thomas Cissarek, Sebastian Debus, Curt Diehm, Uwe Dietrich, Ali Dodge-Khatami, Arndt Dohmen, Christine Espinola-Klein, Jennifer Franke, Thomas Frieling, Sophia Göricke, Ernst Gröchenig, Heinrich Hakuba, Jörg Heckenkamp, Bernhard Hellmich, Joachim Hermanns, Philip Hilgard, Peter Horn, Verena Khan, Dietrich Koch, Manuela Koch, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Tilo Kölbel, Marwan El-Koussy, Knut Kröger, Eric Lorenz, Felix Mahfoud, Erich Minar, Shanti Naskar, Achim Neufang, Sigrid Nikol, Claus Nolte-Ernsting, Elias Noory, Georg Nowak, Michael Offermann, Christoph Ozdoba, Wolfgang Peck, Michael Pillny, Roberta Pini, Siamak Pourhassan, Maximilian J. A. Puchner, Reinhard Putz, Claudio Rabbia, Aljoscha Rastan, Marcus Rebel, Wilhelm Sandmann, Frans Santosa, Dierk Scheinert, Tom Schilling, Marc Schlamann, Andrej Schmidt, Walther Schmiedt, Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, Eva Schönefeld, Gerhard Schroth, Horst Sievert, Sebastian Sixt, Edda Spiekerkötter, Matthias Thielmann, Giovanni Torsello, Dierk Vorwerk, Isabel Wanke, Werner Weber, Thomas Zeller
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Preface
The first edition of the interdisciplinary volume on Vascular Medicine—Therapy and Practice met with an extremely positive response from readers of both the German and the English editions. We have therefore decided to produce a new edition even though only four years have passed since the publication of the first. The advances that have been made in recent years have been tremendous, particularly in the area of endovascular therapy, and in this second edition we have two major aims.
Firstly, we updated and improved the content of the existing chapters. Improvements have mainly involved adding an introductory anatomy section to each of the major chapters. In addition, although the book’s emphasis is still on treatment, a detailed duplex ultrasonography section has been added for each vascular region. This is because duplex ultrasound represents the fundamental method of imaging diagnosis in vascular medicine and is increasingly being carried out in every specialty field in vascular medicine. We hope in this way to contribute to a standardization of the method in everyday usage.
The second aim of the new edition is to achieve a substantial expansion of the content of the book by adding sections and main chapters that did not find their way into the first section for various reasons. This mainly involves the addition of the chapter on “Diseases of the lymphatic system,” along with chapters on “Treatment of acute stroke” and “Renal sympathetic denervation”—two treatment fields that have acquired an