Month: December 2015

Editors: Michael P. Federle, MD; and Siva P. Raman, MD Contributing Authors: Amir A. Borhani, MD; Mitchell Tublin, MD; R.Brooke Jeffrey, MD Publisher: Elsevier / Amirsys – 1,071 pages Book Review by: Hiro Motiram This book contains primarily, bullet-point text along with a large number of diagnostic images of organs and systems along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Amirsys books typically follow this bulleted format, which enables the user (practitioner or student) to learn the material much more quickly than using the much longer, traditional text model with hundreds of thousands of paragraphs in a book of this length. Use...

Editors: Eric J. Topol, MD and Paul S. Teirstein, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 1,081 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani There has been much technological progress in cardiac surgeries since the 1980s, which has in turn enhanced predictability of the results. The innovations have been profoundly beneficial to both patients and practitioners, write the editors – Drs. Topol and Teirstein – in the Preface. This book is reflective of that progress. The editors write: “We have tried to fully capture the excitement and relentless maturation of the field of interventional cardiology. New chapters have been added to address radiation...