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Edited by Gary S. Roubin, Robert M. Califf, William W. O'Neill, Harry R. Phillips III, and Richard S. Stack. 989 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1994. $179.95. ISBN 0-443-08834-9.

Interventional cardiovascular medicine has expanded rapidly during the past 17 years. No longer considered merely the technical counterpart of conventional cardiology, the field has evolved into a discipline that has coronary angioplasty as its primary mission and vascular biology and randomized clinical trials as its scientific foundation.

To accommodate the enormous interest in the field, several new textbooks have been published. Among them, Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine: Principles and Practice has many distinctive features to recommend it. After an authoritative discussion of the biology of the atherosclerotic vessel wall, it presents a patient-oriented approach to interventional cardiovascular treatment. As compared with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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