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Vascular care has evolved from conservative therapy and open surgical therapy to a minimally invasive approach using endovascular techniques, laparoscopic or thoracoscopic techniques as well as hybrids of open and endovascular techniques. New technological developments continue to arise allowing surgeons to be more creative and adding to the treatment options available.
Vascular Surgery provides up-to-the-minute information and details new developments and procedures in the field of vascular surgery. With an authorship of international acclaim, this comprehensive text is a highly valuable resource for surgeons and trainees.
List of contents
Section 1 - Aneurysmal Disease.- Ch.1: Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysms: New Technologies.- Ch.2: Treatment of Suprarenal and Juxtarenal AAA with fenestrated grafts and debranching procedures.- Ch.3: Surgeon-Modified Fenestrated and Branched Stent Grafts.- Ch.4: Pelvic Revascularization during Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair.- Ch.5: Management of Endoleak Following Endovascular Aneurysm Repair.- Ch.6: Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (Tevar): New Horizons.- Ch.7: Thoracic Aneurysms: Endovascular Procedures For Debranching of Ascending and Isolated Arch Aneurysms.- Ch.8: Aortic Dissection.- Ch.9: Endovascular Treatment Of Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Rupture, Ruptured TAA And AAA.- Ch.10: Laparoscopic and Robotic Aortic Surgery.- Ch.11: Popliteal Artery Aneurysm: Endovascular Surgery.- Section 2 - Occlusive Disease.- Ch.12: Carotid Artery Stenting: Current Status.- Ch.13: Mesenteric Artery Occlusive Disease.- Ch.14: Treatment of Renal Artery Stenosis and Fibromuscular Dysplasia.- Ch.15: Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease.- Ch.16: Femoro-Popliteal Endovascular Interventions.- Section 3 - Venous Disease.- Ch.17: Venous Insufficiency, Varicose Veins, and Perforators.- Ch.18: Deep Venous Thrombosis.- Ch.19: Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filters.- Section 4 - Miscellaneous.- Ch.20: First Rib Resection and Thoracoscopic Cervical Sympathectomy.- Ch.21: Hemodialysis vascular access creation and maintenance.- Ch.22: New Oral Anticoagulants in Surgery.
About the author
Professor Jamal J. Hoballah - Currently at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Professor Hoballah has published numerous books with Springer and is a renowned and respected specialist in his field. Authored and co-edited books include: Vascular Reconstructions: Anatomy, Exposures, and Techniques; Operative Dictations in General and Vascular Surgery. He has published extensively both in books and in journals, and is a member of (amongst others) the Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society, the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the International Union of Angiology. He has been president of the Johnson County Medical Society (President 2002-2003) and the Iowa Vascular Surgery Society (President 2002-2004.)
His university fellowships include both New York University Medical Center and the University of Iowa. In the last couple of years, Jamal Hoballah has won the accolade of one of the Best Doctors in America (2004; 2006).
Summary
Vascular care has evolved from conservative therapy and open surgical therapy to a minimally invasive approach using endovascular techniques, laparoscopic or thoracoscopic techniques as well as hybrids of open and endovascular techniques. New technological developments continue to arise allowing surgeons to be more creative and adding to the treatment options available.
Vascular Surgery provides up-to-the-minute information and details new developments and procedures in the field of vascular surgery. With an authorship of international acclaim, this comprehensive text is a highly valuable resource for surgeons and trainees.
