Meet the editor

Dr. Alexander E. Berezin received his PhD in 1994 from the State Medical University of Zaporozhye (Ukraine). He is currently working as Senior Consultant, Lecturer, and Professor of the Internal Medicine Department at the same university. His research focuses on the fundamental study of developing cardiac and vascular diseases, prevention and rehabilitation, risk stratification, biological markers, and guided therapy. Based on this research

and training in cardiac and vascular diseases, he has received several awards and honors. He is editor-in-chief of five highly reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of scientific repute. He has published 1050 original articles/reviews in reputed journals, as well as 57 books/book chapters.

**Preface III**

Vascular Access: Methodology and Contemporary Management **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

Vascular Access and Reparative Surgery **59**

**Chapter 3 61**

Vascular Access Failure **77**

**Chapter 4 79**

Risk Stratification in Vascular Access **117**

**Chapter 5 119**

*by Olga V. Petyunina, Mykola P. Kopytsya, Iurii S. Rudyk and Ganna S. Isayeva*

Different Sites of Vascular Access for Transcutaneous Aortic Valve

Vascular Access Management for Haemodialysis: A Value-Based

*by Bernard Canaud, Pedro Ponce, Maria Teresa Parisotto, Ellen Busink,* 

Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair in Patients with Aortoiliac

*by Kevin D. Mangum, Arash Fereydooni and Naiem Nassiri*

Pathogenesis and Prevention of Vascular Access Failure *by Rebecca Hudson, David Johnson and Andrea Viecelli*

Promising Role of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A in Risk

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 5**

Stratification after PCI

Occlusive Disease

Implantation (TAVI) *by Mohd Shahbaaz Khan*

Contents

Approach from NephroCare Experience

*Christian Apel, Jörg Rammo and Stefano Stuard*
