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Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels, 2nd Edition

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Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels<

Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels

Second Edition

Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels provides a comprehensive overview of the science and clinical consequences of vascular inflammation in health and disease. In recent years, considerable progress has been made in understanding different forms of vasculitis. Investigation of pathogenesis of vascular inflammation has led to improved treatments and outcomes. Surgical and transplant procedures have improved in parallel with medical therapies. These areas are extensively examined in this new edition.

Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels is an excellent resource for a broad readership, including clinicians, investigators and their support teams in numerous specialties e.g. rheumatology, immunology, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, pulmonary medicine, nephrology, pathology, vascular biology, embryology and imaging.

About the Author
Gary S. Hoffman M.D., M.S. is Chairman of the Department of Immunologic Diseases and Director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, and holds the Harold C. Schott Chair for Immunologic Diseases at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, and is founder and Chairman of the International Network for the Study of the Systemic Vasculitides (INSSYS). Repeatedly listed in "The Best Doctors in America" , Professor Hoffman is the former Head of Vasculitis and Related Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Cornelia M. Weyand M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Mayo Medical School, a Consultant in the Department of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, and the Barbara Woodward Lips Professor at the Mayo Clinic Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota. The author of numerous publications, she is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Professor Weyand completed additional immunology training at Stanford University, California, and is the recipient of numerous national and international awards.

Carol A. Langford, MD, MHS, FACP, was a senior investigator within the Immunologic Diseases Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1994 to 2004. At the NIH, Dr. Langford’s research focused on vasculitic diseases, where she was Principal Investigator for nine vasculitis-related protocols.While at the NIH, Dr. Langford received an NIAID Special Act of Service Award in 2001 and was the recipient of NIAID Staff Recognition Awards from 1998 through 2004. In 2004, Dr. Langford joined the Cleveland Clinic to become Director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research within the Department of Immunologic Diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. A frequently invited lecturer at national and international medical meetings, Dr. Langford has authored more than 50 scientific papers and chapters on vasculitis.