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(Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol. 212.) Edited by Christoph A. Nienaber and Rossella Fattori. 278 pp., illustrated. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1999. $127. ISBN-0-7923-5517-2.

With the increasing focus of both vascular medicine and vascular surgery on vascular-wall biology, students of aortic disease have come to expect that books on the subject will incorporate discussions of nitric oxide, endothelin, shear stress, proteoglycans, and matrix metalloproteinases and relate these to clinical diseases. Such is not the case with this grandly titled slender book, edited by Nienaber of Hamburg, Germany, and Fattori of Bologna, Italy. This is most definitely a book about "what," certainly not a "how" or "why" book. It consists of only 278 pages, including many devoted to extensive bibliographies, thus leaving space for only . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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