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Edited by Spencer B. King III and Alan C. Yeung. 846 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2007. $155. ISBN 978-0-07-141527-9.

Almost 30 years ago, Andreas Gruentzig performed the first balloon angioplasty in Zurich, Switzerland. If he were alive today, a book written by him would be the bible of interventional cardiology. It therefore deserves our attention when Spencer King — Gruentzig's first partner in Atlanta — and Alan Yeung undertake the challenge of compiling current knowledge of interventional cardiology into a single volume. Section editors of high reputation in the interventional arena underscore that this is a book no interventional cardiologist can ignore. The practicing cardiologist and the fellow in training will find in these pages all they need to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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