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This monograph, published by the
American Heart Association, will be
of great value to physicians interested in keeping abreast of newer
thinking and developments in the
field of cardiovascular disease. It is
a compilation of 31 surgical papers
selected from the program of the
1967 American Heart Association annual meeting. The editors are to be
congratulated for selecting outstanding and original work. The nonsurgeon will be interested in several
of the presentations, including one
giving long-term results of prosthetic valve replacement in the large
Mayo Clinic series; we are just
beginning to know what we have to
offer the patient with acquired
valvular heart disease. A single noncardiac paper presents follow-up
data on the series of femoropopliteal
reconstructions utilizing autogenous
saphenous vein from the University
of Rochester. The data document the
significant palliation and low risk
that this surgery can provide in
properly selected cases.