Revision of Total Knee Arthroplasty

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75 experience of the leading authorities in Cardiothoracic transplantation medicine and in this second edition he consolidates this. It comprises four sections, eighty chapters and some eight hundred and twenty four pages. This is a comprehensive and readable review of the "state of the art" in the field of Cardiothoracic transplantation and replacement of thoracic organs. The contributors are predominantly from the United States and the early chapters reflect an American perspective on the medico-legal aspects of brain death and the assessment of potential Donors and Recipients. I would recommend to a general audience the sections on the historical aspects of heart and lung transplantation. These give you a sense of how exciting and hazardous the early days of transplantation were. Physicians with patients who are recipients or potential recipients should find the middle sections on the clinical aspects of transplantation particularly useful in their practice. For the cardiovascular surgeons it is a textbook worth dipping into, especially if preparing for the final part of the FRCS. There are excellent reviews on operative technique and post-operative management, and numerous illustrations of surgical anatomy. Technophiles will find the last section on current and future advances in thoracic organ replacement a delight and hospital administrators will become decidedly queasy at the potential costs. In summary, the book is an excellent review which will probably grace the shelves of some well endowed hospital library and perhaps the occasional office of a physician with an interest in transplantation. The development of angiology, as a specialty in its own right, has tended, until recently, to be a European phenomenon. This book appears to be a joint venture between the United Kingdom and Italy with the authors, almost exclusively, coming from these two countries. The classification, epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of a wide range of arterial and venous diseases, are addressed in 35 chapters. The scope of the book is extensive, which unfortunately leads to occasional excessive detail in relatively rare conditions and inadequate discussion on some of the more common vascular problems. This begs the questions as to what group of clinicians would benefit from reading "Angiology in Practice"? I suspect it will be of most use to general physicians and cardiovascular surgeons. It should also be of benefit, although perhaps more as a reference text, to general practitioners, neurologists and interventional radiologists. The main advantage of this text is that it reminds clinicians …