Preface

This book focus is on diagnosis and treatment of intracranial aneurysm, abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms. It addresses neurosurgical, vascular and cardiothoracic surgeons and interventional radiologists, but also anyone engaged in vascular medicine. The book presents an effort to collect an up-to-date account of existing knowledge, involving recent development in this field. Various experts described details of established knowledge or newly recognized advances associated with diagnosis, treatment, perioperative management and mechanisms. The chapters are written by recognized vascular surgeons and scientists from around the world, collecting the work of internationally acknowledged experts sharing their opinions about the important topics of the current vascular surgery practice and research. The chapters selected for this book bring scientific input from authors who come from different specialities, countries, and sometimes even cultures, which has facilitated a comprehensive and interesting approach to the problem of aneurysm treatment. The book chapters include epidemiology, symptoms and signs, clinical, radiological imaging, medications, direct open surgery, intravascular surgeries and ultrastructural pathological diagnosis, therapeutic approaches and outcome of the whole body aneurys. Surgical procedures in this area have received increasing attention in the last few years and have been subjected to several modifications, especially the progress of interventional radiological endovascular techniques that reduce the invasive nature of surgery as well as complication rates led to rapid advancements. This book looks at current basic knowledge on aneurysm and some of the developments in research which have the potential to change the prognosis. This is the first book that deals with the whole body aneurysm, such as cerebral aneurysm, abdominal aneurysm, and splenial aneurysm and to learn the latest research in other fields is always very useful. I hope this book will be used worldwide by vascular surgeons and interventionalists enhancing their knowledge and stimulating the advancement of this field.

> **Yasuo Murai**  Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
