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Pathogenesis of coronary artery disease
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CARDIAC DIAGNOSIS. By Peter Carson, M.A., (Oxford), M.R.C.P.(Lond.), F.A.C.C., New 1969, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Company, 576 pages. Price $17.50. Dr.
B.M. York, Book
Carson has condensed some of the most important aspects of clinical cardiology into approximately 500 pages. The book is written for the practicing physician but should prove valuable to medical students, interns, and residents. The text is well written. The book is organized in the usual fashion for such monographs. The presentations are accurate though incomplete. A fairly lengthy bibliography is included. The reader must reahze that this relatively brief book must be supplemented by the medical literature and other textbooks of cardiology. The reader will be impressed with the clinical orientation of the book and the brevity of the presentations of the author’s own ideas and experience. This a very good book for beginners and busy physicians.
PATHOGENESIS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. By Meyer Friedman, M.D., New York, 1969, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 269 pages. Price $19.50. Dr. Friedman has been interested in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease and arterioscIerosis for many years. He has made many important contributions and introduced interesting theories. Nevertheless, he, like all others, does not really know precisely the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease or arteriosclerosis. Certain factors are known to be related statistically, but their pathogenicity remains unsettled. This is a very good book on coronary artery disease. It is well written and the color plates are elegant. The monograph is divided into two parts, experimental and clinical. The known factors are clearly presented but the author has not convinced this reviewer that we are any closer to the understanding of the mechanisms by which coronary arteriosclerosis is produced today then we were over 50 years ago. Regardless, this is a very good book which contains a good description of the author’s own research and ideas as well as the aspects of the pathology concerned with coronary artery arteriosclerosis.
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE. By John F. Kurtzke, Berlin and New York, 1969, Springer-Verlag, 197 pages. Price $14.50. This monograph tively small
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by Kurtzke condenses in a relavolume the important epidemiologic
data on cerebrovascular disease. The convenience offered others interested in the subject by this monograph is considerable. The book consists of 13 chapters including such aspects of epidemiology as definitions and methods, validity of mortality data (from this reviewer’s opinion they are most unreliable when obtained from the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the individual states and United States Government), general features, geographic distribution, race, and course. International data are also presented. The reliability of these data is also unknown. Kurtzke’s book contains over 400 references and an appendix of many tables of usual epidemiologic information. This book is recommended to those interested in this aspect of cerebrovascular diseases.
CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION AND ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY, An Introductory Manual. By David Verel, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., and Ronald G. Grainger, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.M.R.D., F.F.R., Baltimore, 1969, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 172 pages. Price $14.00. This manual contains information related to techniques and interpretation of cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography. Sir John McMichael wrote an interesting history as a forward to this book on cardiac catheterization which relate his own brief experiences and difficulties with cardiac catheterization. The book is adequate for beginners but should interest others very little since it is only an introduction to the subject. The presentation is accurate, brief, and lucid. The atlas of angiocardiograms and roentgenograms of catheterization with the catheters in place is valuable. The legends associated with each of the 116 figures in the atlas are extremely useful. This is a good manual to add to the others already available.
HYPERTENSIVE no. 1. Edited delphia, 1969, Price $8.00. This
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, vol. 1, by Albert N. Brest, M.D., PhilaF. A. Davis Company, 332 pages.
book, edited by Dr. Brest, represents the first of three planned. The titles of the other two will be Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Therapy. The contributors are numerous and include physicians who have been concerned with hypertension for many years. The subjects discussed include natural history pathology, labile hypertension, hemodynamic phenomena, diastolic and renovascular hypertension, therapy and toxemia of pregnancy, among many other
reviews
CARDIAC DIAGNOSIS. By Peter Carson, M.A., (Oxford), M.R.C.P.(Lond.), F.A.C.C., New 1969, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Company, 576 pages. Price $17.50. Dr.
B.M. York, Book
Carson has condensed some of the most important aspects of clinical cardiology into approximately 500 pages. The book is written for the practicing physician but should prove valuable to medical students, interns, and residents. The text is well written. The book is organized in the usual fashion for such monographs. The presentations are accurate though incomplete. A fairly lengthy bibliography is included. The reader must reahze that this relatively brief book must be supplemented by the medical literature and other textbooks of cardiology. The reader will be impressed with the clinical orientation of the book and the brevity of the presentations of the author’s own ideas and experience. This a very good book for beginners and busy physicians.
PATHOGENESIS OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. By Meyer Friedman, M.D., New York, 1969, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 269 pages. Price $19.50. Dr. Friedman has been interested in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease and arterioscIerosis for many years. He has made many important contributions and introduced interesting theories. Nevertheless, he, like all others, does not really know precisely the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease or arteriosclerosis. Certain factors are known to be related statistically, but their pathogenicity remains unsettled. This is a very good book on coronary artery disease. It is well written and the color plates are elegant. The monograph is divided into two parts, experimental and clinical. The known factors are clearly presented but the author has not convinced this reviewer that we are any closer to the understanding of the mechanisms by which coronary arteriosclerosis is produced today then we were over 50 years ago. Regardless, this is a very good book which contains a good description of the author’s own research and ideas as well as the aspects of the pathology concerned with coronary artery arteriosclerosis.
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE. By John F. Kurtzke, Berlin and New York, 1969, Springer-Verlag, 197 pages. Price $14.50. This monograph tively small
a44
by Kurtzke condenses in a relavolume the important epidemiologic
data on cerebrovascular disease. The convenience offered others interested in the subject by this monograph is considerable. The book consists of 13 chapters including such aspects of epidemiology as definitions and methods, validity of mortality data (from this reviewer’s opinion they are most unreliable when obtained from the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the individual states and United States Government), general features, geographic distribution, race, and course. International data are also presented. The reliability of these data is also unknown. Kurtzke’s book contains over 400 references and an appendix of many tables of usual epidemiologic information. This book is recommended to those interested in this aspect of cerebrovascular diseases.
CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION AND ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY, An Introductory Manual. By David Verel, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., and Ronald G. Grainger, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.M.R.D., F.F.R., Baltimore, 1969, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 172 pages. Price $14.00. This manual contains information related to techniques and interpretation of cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography. Sir John McMichael wrote an interesting history as a forward to this book on cardiac catheterization which relate his own brief experiences and difficulties with cardiac catheterization. The book is adequate for beginners but should interest others very little since it is only an introduction to the subject. The presentation is accurate, brief, and lucid. The atlas of angiocardiograms and roentgenograms of catheterization with the catheters in place is valuable. The legends associated with each of the 116 figures in the atlas are extremely useful. This is a good manual to add to the others already available.
HYPERTENSIVE no. 1. Edited delphia, 1969, Price $8.00. This
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, vol. 1, by Albert N. Brest, M.D., PhilaF. A. Davis Company, 332 pages.
book, edited by Dr. Brest, represents the first of three planned. The titles of the other two will be Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Therapy. The contributors are numerous and include physicians who have been concerned with hypertension for many years. The subjects discussed include natural history pathology, labile hypertension, hemodynamic phenomena, diastolic and renovascular hypertension, therapy and toxemia of pregnancy, among many other