Month: February 2016

Editors: Sandro Carrara and Krzysztof Iniewski Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 577 pages Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam The relationship between biology and electronics has been unmistakably growing, especially in recent years. Numerous devices used in clinics and hospitals monitor our physiological signs. There are also currently on the market, and used by millions of people already, many new personal wearable items that can give us up-to-the-second information on many aspects of our health and well-being. These are not just the commonly-known activity, fitness, and sports trackers. These are of value for all ages, and particularly for the very...

Editors: Robert F. Spetzler, MD; Douglas S. Kondziolka, MD; Randall T. Higashida, MD; and M. Yashar S. Kalani, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 336 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Malformations in the human vascular system are relatively rare, but for those who have them and for their families, they can cause mild to severe physical pain or pressure, psychological stress, and economic burdens, the editors and authors of this book point out. The anomalies impinging upon parts of the brain or spine can take several forms. They could be fistulae, lesions or tumors, or other masses. In the...

Editors: Demetrios Demetriades, MD; Kenji Inaba, MD; and George Velmahos, MD Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 348 pages, with more than 630 illustrations Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is, in the words of the editors, “a rapid, highly visual summary of the critical anatomy, procedural sequencing, and pitfalls associated with surgical procedures…it is a review of both common and uncommonly performed procedures prior to proceeding to the operating room.” It is user-friendly, written for trainees as well as those in practice, including experienced surgeons. It is simply organized around anatomical areas, and its more than 630 high-quality...

Volume 1: Neural Repair and Plasticity Volume 2: Medical Neurorehabilitation Editors and Authors: Michael E. Selzer, Stephanie Clarke, Leonardo G. Cohen, Gert Kwakkel, and Robert H. Miller Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 1,351 pages (643 + 708) Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The repair and rehabilitation of nerves is a relatively recent, exciting, and very promising and rewarding area of medical research and practice. Part of the reason for this development is that life expectancies are growing, especially in the developed world, and medical science and discoveries have advanced rapidly in recent years, the editors write in their Preface...

Editors: Thomas Zeller, MD; Thomas Cissarek, MD; William A. Gray, MD; Knut Kroger, MD. Associate Editor: Jerry Wojciuk, MD Publisher: Thieme – 520 pages, with 948 illustrations Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a large-size text of more than 500 pages and nearly 950 illustrations on the various diseases of blood vessels in the human body. It is already the second (2014) edition, with the first one published just four years ago in 2010, because the advances in this have been ‘tremendous,’ particularly in endovascular therapy, as the editors describe them. Seventy-two people, all from Germany except four...