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The surgical treatment of acute and chronic arterial occlusions
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disease, ologists.
Announcements
and
to practicing
internists
and
cardi-
DIE CHIKUKGISCHE BEHANDLUNG DEK AKUTEN UND CHRONISCHEN ARTERIELLEN VERSCHLBSSE (The Surgical Treatment of Acute and Chronic Arterial Occlusions). By A. Senn, Chirurgischen Klinik, Universitit Bern. Bern, 1963, Hans Huber, 207 pages, 19 illustrations. Price: Fr/DM39. In this monograph, embolic and thrombotic arterial diseases are presented in detail, with special reference to the recent Anglo-American literature. The numerous and well-arranged statistics from the literature are compared with the results of 287 operations performed by the author. He is in favor of embolectomy even m those patients who are admitted to hospital more than 10 hours after embolism. In 62 per cent of these patients the operation resulted in conservation of the extremity. In peripheral occlusion distal to the iliac artery, lumbar sympathectomy will improve arterial circulation in about 80 per cent of the patients In addition to surgical management, this book gives the physician a good presentation of the
svmptomatology rial angiopathies.
and diagnostic
measures
in artc-
SPATIOCARDIOGKAPHY; TEXTBOOK AND ATLAS. “1; Prof. Vilem Laufberger, M.D., DSc., Member ot the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Prague, 1964, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak.;Zcademy of Sciences, 189 pages. This book describes spatial vectorcardiography as practiced in Czechoslovakia. The methods and ideas as used by the physicians there are clearly described and well illustrated by diagrams throughout the text and with photographs of spatial vectorcardiograms in an atlas appended at the end of the book. The presentation is supported by mathematical discussions which render the book less interesting to practicing physicians but more valuable to students in the held. The author not only discusses representative records of cardiac disease and the normal but also presents clearly some of the fundamental concepts of vectorcardiography. This is a good book and should be of particular interest to beginners as well as to more experienced investigators in the tield.
Announcements The European Society for Biochemical Pharmacology will organize, in collaboration with the University of Milan, the SECOND INTEKNATIONAI. SYMPOSIUM ON DRUGS AFFECTING LIPID METAROLISM, to be held in Milan on Sept. 13-15, 1965. The symposium will include long and short lectures by invited speakers and a limited number of free communications. Requests for information should be directed to: Prof. Rodolfo Paoletti, Scientific Secretary, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Via Andrea de1 Sarto 21, Milan, Italy.
THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE MEDICAL STAFF OF THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF LoN(; BEACH, Long Beach, Calif., will be held at the hospital on Wednesday, May 19, 1965. The program will feature papers by- Memorial Hospital staff physicians. Guest speakers will be Marvin Block, M.D., Chairman, A.M.A. Committee on Alcoholism, and Mr. Horace Cotton, professional management consultant and contributing editor of Medical Economics.
This symposium is partially supported by a grant from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach. Further information is available from Dr. George X. Trimble, Symposium Secretary, Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, 2801 Atlantic Ave., I.ong Beach, Calif., 90801.
THE SECOND INTEKNATIONAL COURSE ON METHODS FOR LIPID RESEARCH, a NATO Advanced-Study Institute, will be held at the University of Milan on Sept. 16-24, 1965. The course will consist of lectures and demonstrations by European and American specialists, with English as the official language. Participation will be limited to 50 postgraduate applicants of any nationality, actively interested in lipid research, and selected on a competitive basis. Requests for information should be directed to: Prof. Rodolfo Paoletti, Scientific Secretary, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Milan, \‘ia .%ndrea del Sarto 21, Milan, Italy.
disease, ologists.
Announcements
and
to practicing
internists
and
cardi-
DIE CHIKUKGISCHE BEHANDLUNG DEK AKUTEN UND CHRONISCHEN ARTERIELLEN VERSCHLBSSE (The Surgical Treatment of Acute and Chronic Arterial Occlusions). By A. Senn, Chirurgischen Klinik, Universitit Bern. Bern, 1963, Hans Huber, 207 pages, 19 illustrations. Price: Fr/DM39. In this monograph, embolic and thrombotic arterial diseases are presented in detail, with special reference to the recent Anglo-American literature. The numerous and well-arranged statistics from the literature are compared with the results of 287 operations performed by the author. He is in favor of embolectomy even m those patients who are admitted to hospital more than 10 hours after embolism. In 62 per cent of these patients the operation resulted in conservation of the extremity. In peripheral occlusion distal to the iliac artery, lumbar sympathectomy will improve arterial circulation in about 80 per cent of the patients In addition to surgical management, this book gives the physician a good presentation of the
svmptomatology rial angiopathies.
and diagnostic
measures
in artc-
SPATIOCARDIOGKAPHY; TEXTBOOK AND ATLAS. “1; Prof. Vilem Laufberger, M.D., DSc., Member ot the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Prague, 1964, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak.;Zcademy of Sciences, 189 pages. This book describes spatial vectorcardiography as practiced in Czechoslovakia. The methods and ideas as used by the physicians there are clearly described and well illustrated by diagrams throughout the text and with photographs of spatial vectorcardiograms in an atlas appended at the end of the book. The presentation is supported by mathematical discussions which render the book less interesting to practicing physicians but more valuable to students in the held. The author not only discusses representative records of cardiac disease and the normal but also presents clearly some of the fundamental concepts of vectorcardiography. This is a good book and should be of particular interest to beginners as well as to more experienced investigators in the tield.
Announcements The European Society for Biochemical Pharmacology will organize, in collaboration with the University of Milan, the SECOND INTEKNATIONAI. SYMPOSIUM ON DRUGS AFFECTING LIPID METAROLISM, to be held in Milan on Sept. 13-15, 1965. The symposium will include long and short lectures by invited speakers and a limited number of free communications. Requests for information should be directed to: Prof. Rodolfo Paoletti, Scientific Secretary, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Milan, Via Andrea de1 Sarto 21, Milan, Italy.
THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE MEDICAL STAFF OF THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF LoN(; BEACH, Long Beach, Calif., will be held at the hospital on Wednesday, May 19, 1965. The program will feature papers by- Memorial Hospital staff physicians. Guest speakers will be Marvin Block, M.D., Chairman, A.M.A. Committee on Alcoholism, and Mr. Horace Cotton, professional management consultant and contributing editor of Medical Economics.
This symposium is partially supported by a grant from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach. Further information is available from Dr. George X. Trimble, Symposium Secretary, Memorial Hospital of Long Beach, 2801 Atlantic Ave., I.ong Beach, Calif., 90801.
THE SECOND INTEKNATIONAL COURSE ON METHODS FOR LIPID RESEARCH, a NATO Advanced-Study Institute, will be held at the University of Milan on Sept. 16-24, 1965. The course will consist of lectures and demonstrations by European and American specialists, with English as the official language. Participation will be limited to 50 postgraduate applicants of any nationality, actively interested in lipid research, and selected on a competitive basis. Requests for information should be directed to: Prof. Rodolfo Paoletti, Scientific Secretary, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Milan, \‘ia .%ndrea del Sarto 21, Milan, Italy.