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Therapeutic Embolization
Kiron Varghese • Srilakshmi Adhyapak
Therapeutic Embolization
Kiron Varghese Department of Cardiology St. John’s Medical College Hospital Bangalore India
Srilakshmi Adhyapak St. John’s Medical College Hospital Bangalore India
ISBN 978-3-319-42492-7 ISBN 978-3-319-42494-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42494-1
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Foreword
It is indeed a great pleasure writing a foreword for a book written by my colleague Dr. Kiron Varghese and his co-author, Dr. Srilakshmi A. I have known Dr. Kiron Varghese for 16 years, and while working with him at St. John’s Medical College Hospital, I always admired his cardiovascular interventional skills and his kindness and concern for patients. Apart from excelling in coronary interventions, he evinced a keen interest in peripheral vascular interventions, rather an “orphaned field” those days. I watched him doing a bronchial artery embolization and salvaging a patient with massive hemoptysis getting almost drowned in his own secretions. Then onwards, he extended his field and expanded indications progressing forward, with gratifying results with therapeutic embolizations. Literally and metaphorically, he has covered from head to foot most of the organs in his interventional work and all aspects of the procedures in his book. Probably, this book is the first of its kind, creating a new field “therapeutic embolization” in cardiovascular interventions, involving emergency life-saving procedures and elective procedures, avoiding surgery in some cases, assisting surgeons in providing bloodless fields, embolizing unwanted and harmful organs, and chemoembolization. Dr. Kiron, assisted ably by Dr. Srilakshmi, a competent c
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