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 increasing or new importance in recent years and in which tremendous progress in interventional therapy of the clinical fields involved can be expected in the future. We are particularly pleased that pioneers of each of these treatment methods have agreed to be co-authors for these sections. The section on the treatment of renal artery stenosis, “Surgical treatment of renal artery stenosis,” is another important addition and comes from Prof. Sandmann’s school in Düsseldorf, one of the most experienced international specialists in this field.
We would like to thank all of the authors for their valuable revisions and new contributions. We are also grateful to Dr. Bedürftig, Ms. Behle, and Ms. Sänger and to all the other staff, who along with the graphic designer Ms. Baum have once again given the book its excellent design.
Readers may notice that there has been a change in the order of the editors’ names. We would like to continue this rotation in the coming years as well as to continue to keep readers informed about the very latest state of developments in the treatment of vascular diseases.
| Thomas ZellerThomas CissarekWilliam A. GrayKnut Kröger |
List of Contributors
Jens Achenbach, MD Department of Angiology Center for Vascular Diseases Rhein-Ruhr Mülheim an der Ruhr / Essen, Germany
Farzin Adili, MD Head, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Darmstadt Hospital Darmstadt, Germany
Helene Arns, MD Department of Phlebology, Lymphology Center for Vascular Diseases Rhein-Ruhr Mülheim an der Ruhr / Essen, Germany
Ali Aydin, MD Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology University Heart Center Hamburg University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Germany
Jörn O. Balzer, PD, MD Head, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Catholic Hospital Mainz Mainz, Germany
Kai M. Balzer, MD Associate Professor Chief Resident Department of Vascular Surgery and Kidney Transplantation Universal Hospital Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany
Ulrich Beschorner, MD Attending Physician Department of Angiology and Cardiology Heart Center Freiburg University Bad Krozingen, Germany
Friedhelm Beyersdorf, MD, MD h.c. Professor Member of the Board of Medical Directors Head, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen, Germany
Hans-Georg Bone, MD Professor Head, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive-Care Medicine Clinicum Vest GmbH Recklinghausen, Germany
Thomas Cissarek, MD Department of Angiology, Phlebology, Vascular Surgery Gefaesskrankheiten Rhein-Ruhr Essen, Germany
Sebastian Debus, MD Professor Head, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Angiology University Heart Center Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Curt Diehm, MD Professor Head, Department of Internal Medicine Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach Karlsbad, Germany
Uwe Dietrich, MD Head, Department of Neuroradiology Evangelic Hospital Bielefeld Bielefeld, Germany
Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD Professor of Surgery Division of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery University of Mississippi Medical Center Mississippi, USA
Arndt Dohmen, MD Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Medicine University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen Bad Krozingen, Germany
Christine Espinola-Klein, MD Professor Head, Department of Angiology University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Mainz, Germany
Jennifer Franke, MD Resident Department of Internal Medicine Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
Thomas Frieling, MD Professor Head, Department of Internal Medicine HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld GmbH Krefeld, Germany
Sophia Göricke, MD Attending Physician Department of Neuroradiology Essen University Hospital Essen, Germany
Ernst Gröchenig, MD Head, Department of Internal Medicine Kantonspital Aarau Aarau, Switzerland
Heinrich Hakuba, MD Head, Department of Lymphology Hochrhein-Eggberg Hospital Bad Säckingen Bad Säckingen, Germany
Jörg Heckenkamp, MD Professor Head,Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Niels-Stensen Hospital Marienhospital Osnabrück Osnabrück, Germany
Bernhard Hellmich, MD Professor Head, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Kirchheim Hospital Kirchheim-Teck, Germany
Hans Joachim Hermanns, MD Private Practice Practice for Angiology Krefeld, Germany
Philip Hilgard, PD, MD Head, Department of Gastroenterology Evangelic Hospital Mülheim Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Peter Horn, MD Head, Department of Tranfusion Medicine University Hospital Essen Essen, Germany
Verena Khan, MD Department of Radiology Nuremberg Hospital Nuremberg, Germany
Dietrich Koch, MD Department of Vascular Surgery Clinic for Vascular Diseases Essen, Germany
Manuela Koch, MD Department of Vascular Surgery Clinic for Vascular Diseases Essen, Germany
Yskert von Kodolitsch, MD Professor Chief Resident Department of General and Interventional Cardiology University Heart Center Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Tilo Kölbel, MD Chief Resident Department of Vascular Medicine University Heart Center Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Marwan El-Koussy, MD Chief Resident Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology Bern University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Knut Kröger, MD Professor Head, Department of Angiology HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld GmbH Krefeld, Germany
Eric Lorenz, MD Department of Visceral and Vascular Surgery St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin, Germany
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