Edited by Rafael Beyar, Gad Keren, Martin B. Leon, and Patrick W. Serruys. 460 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1997. $150. ISBN 1-85317-487-4.
Interventional cardiology is such a rapidly progressing disciplinethat textbooks run the risk of being outdated by the time theyare printed. To keep track of all developments requires regularattendance at major meetings. Such a meeting was the SecondInternational Meeting in Interventional Cardiology, held inJerusalem in July 1997. Only a few months later, the highlightsof this meeting have been published as a book with the ambitioustitle Frontiers in Interventional Cardiology. Unlike other proceedings,however, this is more than a summary of scientific papers; rather,it is an impressive document of the state of the art . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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