ISBN-13: 9783642625657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 1939 str.
Vascular diseases are the leading cause of taken. First, interactive and permeable int- morbidity and mortality in developed faces have replaced interdisciplinary nations. The numbers presented by the boundaries (Fig. 2). Second, vascular American Heart Association in the teams have supplanted soloist 2002 Heart and Stroke Statistical vascular specialists. The teams Update (www. americanheartorg) have been assembled based on are staggering. In 2000 an esti- the complementary character mated 22. iYo of US citizens of the vascular (vertical in- suffered from at least one gration) and vascular-related cardiovascular disease (CVD); organ (horizontal integ- for nearly one million, the tion) expertise of individual CVD was deadly. Coronary members, allowing prof- artery disease accounted for sional handling of a comp- the largest share of deaths te spectrum of vascular (55%), with cerebrovascular diseases. Third, vascul- disease contributing an addi- and organ-based disciplines tiona 17%. With 13 million have been integrated into p- patients suffering from clinical vascular centers. and This textbook provides a coronary artery disease nearly 5 million patients from comprehensive state-of-the-art cerebrovascular disease, CVD mor- review of current vascular medicine. bidity was also high. Comparable num- Instead of following the traditional hers were reported for other industrial interdisciplinary divides, the vascular nations (www. cdc. gov/nccdphp/vd international. system is viewed as a functional unity. To pro- 1 htm; www. who. it/dsa/cat98/card8. htm).