Book Review: Clinical Performance of Skeletal Prostheses

Clinical performance of biological and mechanical prostheses.

Prosthetic valve replacement remains the most viable alternative for the treatment of severely diseased heart valves. The cumulative experience of mechanical protheses and bioprostheses was evaluated for a 10-year performance comparison: Carpentier-Edwards standard porcine bioprosthesis (CE-S), 1,214 operations; Carpentier-Edwards supraannular porcine bioprosthesis (CE-SAV), 2,489; and mechanic...

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Book Review: Clinical Research Design. 4th ed.

Although this is a comprehensive textbook on clinical research design, it takes the reader in a truly step by step manner in designing a clinical research. It starts with explaining what a clinical research is made of the “anatomy” and how it works the “physiology.” It then covers how to conceive a research question, writing research proposals and ends with explaining not commonly discussed sub...

Book Review Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology

This text, in both concept and execution, was an ambitious undertaking by its editors Peter S. Spencer and Herbert H. Schaumberg, who also serve as major contributors. To describe this work as over-ambitious would be to imply that it does not reach the rigorous goals it sets for itself. Happily, this reader can report that Experimental and Clin­ ical Neurotoxicology is, by and large, successful...

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