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Previous Volume 329:739-740 September 2, 1993 Number 10 Next

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(Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology [12].) Edited by Samuel Z. Goldhaber. 607 pp. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1993. $95. ISBN 0-8247-8757-9.
(Current Issues in Heart Valve Disease.) Edited by Eric G. Butchart and Endre Bodnar. 495 pp., illustrated. London, ICR, 1992. $140. ISBN 1-872743-04-8.

Physicians from all medical specialties are united in a common goal of preventing, diagnosing, and treating venous thromboembolism. The 25 chapters in Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism address these issues as they pertain to both medical and surgical patients. The first section, "Fundamental Considerations for Venous Thromboembolism," includes an excellent chapter on the economic burden of the problem. It emphasizes the economic justification for primary prophylaxis against thrombosis by pointing out that the use of prophylaxis in each 1 million patients undergoing surgical procedures reduces health care costs by $60 million. Another chapter explains the sonographic examination of the deep venous . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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