Vascular Surgery

Vascular surgery has experienced remarkable growth and diversification in the last decade, especially with its embracing the disruptive endovascular technological revolution. Vascular surgeons remain the only group of specialists capable of total treatment of patients with vascular disease, providing medical, minimally invasive, and surgical therapy. Although vascular surgeons practice in all areas of the world, practice patterns in different areas naturally have both similarities and differences that reflect both regional patterns of disease, genetic characteristics of local peoples, cultural preferences for treatment, local political and economic situations, different access to resources and devices, as well as different training paradigms.Thus, the practice of vascular surgery has diversified and evolved in parallel in many areas, converging and diverging in many ways.Vascular Surgery: A Global Perspectiveprovides the first review and comparison of thediversity of vascular surgery practice around the world. The book is grouped according tocommon vascular diseases such as aneurysmal and occlusive arterial disease, as well as venousand lymphatic disease and dialysis access. Each major disease topic includes multiple chapterswritten by expert specialists from around the world, each discussing their local approach to thedisease and its treatment. Similarly, the status of vascular surgery practice is addressed,including discussion of the influence of payment systems on practice, patient access to theinternet for information, training paradigms, and the legal system including malpractice. Thistextbook provides the first worldwide summary of the care of patients with vascular diseaseand will be of interest to a wide audience including vascular surgeons, vascular medicalspecialists, cardiologists, radiologists, internists, and family practice physicians.