A murder suspect for the dead body on her dissection table, spunky surgeon-to-be Zora Smyth races to find the truth. Then more bodies drop… Zora Smyth is not your average poster child for a first-year medical student with a distant mother, a missing sister, and a deep distrust of the police. All she'd ever dreamed of was to make it through medical school and become a surgeon. But a dissection gone wrong at the Gross Anatomy lab lands Zora in the middle of a murder investigation and in the crosshairs of a vicious enemy. When a potential witness points her out as the prime suspect for the murder, Zora faces the frightening risk of losing her dream and her freedom. Then more bodies drop… As Zora races to investigate the truth and save herself, will she give in to a killer hell-bent on getting what he wants, or will she fight for her life as she faces her worst nightmare? LETHAL DISSECTION is the first book in Dobi Cross' gripping suspense-filled series of medical thrillers. If you like page-turning non-gory medical thrillers filled with unexpected rollercoaster twists and intrigue, you’ll love LETHAL DISSECTION. KEYWORDS: medical thriller, serial killer thriller, kidnapping thriller, crime fiction, medical fiction, suspense thriller, murder thriller, mystery thriller, strong female protagonist thriller, strong female, thriller and suspense, suspense series, deadly, crime thriller, doctor, doctor series, strong heroine, strong woman sleuth, series, thriller series, long series, complete series

When a series of nameless patients vanish after they arrive, Dr. Zora Smyth scrambles for answers. There's a dark secret… Chief surgical resident Dr. Zora Smyth is used to the atypical: a sister that has disappeared, false murder charges from a serial killer, and a brush with death. So when nameless patients show up on her operating table and subsequently disappear on her watch, Zora seeks to discover why. But she soon realizes that the stakes are higher than ever when her sanity is questioned, and a hidden enemy—that wants the dark secrets covered at all costs—endangers everything she holds dear. As Zora races to save herself and those precious to her, will she survive and win against the evil that threatens to swallow her up? LETHAL INCISION is the second book in Dobi Cross' gripping suspense-filled series of medical thrillers. If you like page-turning non-gory medical thrillers filled with unexpected rollercoaster twists and intrigue, you’ll love LETHAL INCISION. KEYWORDS: medical thriller, serial killer thriller, organized crime, financial thriller, kidnapping thriller, crime fiction, medical fiction, medical suspense, suspense thriller, murder thriller, mystery thriller, strong female protagonist thriller, strong female, thriller and suspense, suspense series, deadly, crime thriller, doctor, doctor series, strong heroine, strong woman sleuth, series, thriller series, long series, complete series

When a dead body ends up in her trunk, can Dr. Zora Smyth escape the web of lies and secrets that could destroy her? When the cops discover a dead body in her trunk on her way back from a medical conference, Dr. Zora Smyth figures she can prove it has nothing to do with her. After all, she’d been down this road before, right? But the dead man turns out to be her colleague, a fellow surgeon with a well-known grudge against her, plunging Zora into the center of a murder investigation. As Zora scrambles to uncover the truth, she soon realizes nothing is as it seems and finds herself caught in a web of lies and secrets at the hospital that extends beyond what she would have imagined. With her life spinning out of control as she races to save herself, will Zora untangle herself and expose the truth in time to stop an unexpected enemy determined to destroy her at all costs? LETHAL RETRACTION is the sixth book in Dobi Cross' gripping suspense-filled series of medical thrillers. If you like page-turning non-gory medical thrillers filled with unexpected rollercoaster twists and intrigue, you’ll love LETHAL RETRACTION. KEYWORDS: medical thriller, serial killer thriller, domestic thriller, medical fiction, medical suspense, suspense thriller, mystery thriller, crime fiction, murder thriller, strong female protagonist thriller, strong female, thriller and suspense, suspense series, deadly, crime thriller, doctor, doctor series, strong heroine, strong woman sleuth, series, thriller series, long series, complete series

A vacation turns deadly. A stare at death. Will doctor-to-be Zora Smyth survive? Pre-med Zora Smyth deserves a break after graduating from college. A quick trip with a friend to Mexico for a relaxing vacation was supposed to do the trick before she had to start medical school. But her good Samaritan efforts to help a stranger turns deadly, putting her in the crosshairs of an enemy and her life at risk. Can doctor-to-be Zora Smyth survive long enough to escape? LETHAL EMERGENCY is the prequel to Dobi Cross' gripping suspense-filled series of medical thrillers. If you like page-turning non-gory thrillers filled with unexpected rollercoaster twists and intrigue, you’ll love LETHAL EMERGENCY. KEYWORDS: medical thriller, crime fiction, medical fiction, medical suspense, suspense thriller, mystery thriller, strong female protagonist thriller, strong female, thriller and suspense, suspense series, deadly, crime thriller, doctor, doctor series, strong heroine, strong woman sleuth, series, thriller series, long series, complete series

In today’s healthcare environment, the real driver is value. Maximizing outcomes and minimizing costs or providing similar outcomes with lower cost in terms of actual numbers or recovery time will dominate our healthcare delivery system. An excellent example of this evolution is in the ?eld of cardiovascular intervention. Dr. Jacques Kpodonu’s Manual of Thoracic Endo-Aortic Surgery is a most timely and descriptive work in this burgeoning ?eld. It provides an excellent overview of current technology and techniques, plus the endovascular expert can drill down into the details of the devices and technologies described and signi?cantly enhance their knowledge and perspective. Procedural detail, excellent graphics, pertinent imaging studies, and relevant instruction are the mainstays of this text. The ?rst chapter comprises the key overview and very comprehensively covers the platform – the hybrid OR, the tools, the accessories, and the medium – superb, state-of-the-art imaging modalities required to perform these advanced procedures. The text then moves into more technical details including options and instruction regarding access approaches and potential pitfalls of such. This is followed in en- ing chapters by dissemination of precise information, techniques, and indications for the most popular and utilized grafts including Boston Relay Stent Graft, Cook TX2 Zenith Stent Grafts, as well as the Gore and Medtronic Aortic Stent Grafts.

This book provides readers with the most up-to-date information on cutting-edge research concerning chronic inflammation. We now know that when inflammation becomes chronic, it acts as a strong disease-promoting factor in a variety of disorders including arteriosclerosis, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer disease. Chronic inflammation is hence called as the “silent killer”; it upsets the body’s homeostatic mechanism insidiously. In spite of these developments, we know very little about the mechanism underlying chronic inflammation. Particularly, we do not know precisely what induces chronic inflammation or what promotes its prolongation in a spatiotemporal framework. Neither do we have clear knowledge about how chronic inflammation destroys various tissues or how it predisposes individuals to many different diseases. To make the situation worse, we have no effective treatment against chronic inflammation. Since 2010, two major research programs (CREST and PRESTO) aimed at clarifying the mechanisms underlying chronic inflammation were launched in Japan, and investigators of different research areas with a brilliant track record were selected by their research proposals. Subsequently they have made their best efforts to answer the conundrum concerning chronic inflammation. This book is a compendium of such research efforts. In each chapter, the CREST- or PRESTO-funded researchers summarize their original work concerning mechanisms of induction, progression, or resolution underlying chronic inflammation. The most emphasized characteristic is the molecular aspect of chronic inflammation. The book thus presents the most recent progress made in the molecular understanding of chronic inflammation.

In this book the authors review the surgical management of patients with aortic disease. This often controversial area of management reveals many options open to cardiovascular specialist. This reference reviews each controversy and provides practical answers to the cardiac surgeon and will help them reveal the spectrum of disorders and their management.