‘Mastering Endovascular Techniques. Tips and Tricks in Endovascular Surgery’, the English language textbook for the NKUA’s School of Medicine, is scheduled to be released by prestigious worldwide publisher Springer, London, next month. This publication will be the primary resource for students enrolled in the Transnational Postgraduate Programme ‘Endovascular Techniques’. Editing the book are the Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital) and Visiting Professor at the Department of Surgery at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine (London, UK), Mr George Geroulakos, the Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery at the Department of Vascular Surgery of NKUA (Attikon Hospital), Mr Efthymios Avgerinos, the Professor at Henri Mondor Hospital (APHP Créteil, Hôpital Privé Paris Est, Ramsay Santé, Créteil, France), Mr Jean Pierre Becquemin, the Consultant Endovascular and Interventional Radiologist (Hon) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (London, UK), Dr Gregory Makris, and the Professor at the Department of Vascular Surgery at Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo of the School of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Monza, Italy) Mr Alberto Froio.
It took two years of work to complete the writing. The book has 82 chapters and a certain level of originality; the introduction to the chapters, for instance, is done through a presentation of a clinical case, ample illustrations, and algorithms. Each chapter provides a table of the tools necessary for endovascular surgery (tool kit). The authors of the chapters are distinguished and recognized professionals in their fields in Greece and across the Atlantic. The forward to the book, complete with a brief book review, was written by one of the most distinguished vascular surgeons worldwide, Mr Frank Veith from New York, in collaboration with the newly elected President of the European Society of Vascular Surgery and President of the European Boards in Vascular Surgery, Mr Armando Mansilha.
Mr Geroulakos emphasized that ‘This activity enhances the international reputation and extroversion of NKUA as a centre of excellence in postgraduate education.’
