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Preface

Vascular surgery is a challenging and exciting discipline that has redefined itself during the last decade. Our interface with colleagues from vascular medicine, cardiology, and interventional radiology has resulted in new treatments and the performance of less invasive procedures for management of carotid occlusive disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and peripheral vascular insufficiency. Including coronary artery disease, observed in many of our patients, vascular disease is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in this country. In the third edition of Vascular Surgery: Principles and Practice, our approach has been to present a single comprehensive source of information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutic options for surgeons and other specialists in our field. Chapters from the second edition have been extensively revised and new chapters have been added on the evolving practice in endovascular surgery. Insofar as possible, technical updates and descriptions have been added to each chapter detailing new techniques used in surgical and endovascular procedures. However, we have also retained the popular final chapter describing the classical operations for correction of vascular disorders.

Contributions have been received from nearly 200 acknowledged authorities in vascular surgery and associated specialties. This effort has achieved a balance that we believe will be useful to the surgeon caring for patients with vascular disease. We have also added an introductory chapter outlining the specialty's future and its aspirations for independence, as supported by a substantial majority of all recognized vascular societies in this country. Our specialty's commitment to the noninvasive diagnosis of vascular disease is also emphasized in this textbook and should provide the reader with an authoritative review of current diagnostic modalities.

This textbook could not have become a reality without supervision from our publisher, Marcel Dekker, Inc. We are indebted to its staff including Geoff Greenwood, Joseph Stubenrauch, and Kerry Doyle for their organizational talents and much appreciated recommendations. Furthermore, the editors are personally indebted to Estrellita Alejo-Broadie in Irvine, California, Katherine Turlington in Newark, New Jersey, and Jackie Simpson and Julie Harris in New York. Their countless hours of work and devotion to the completion of this textbook have been remarkable and most appreciated.