Atherosclerosis from harmony to catastrophy

During his last months of life, Prof. Giuseppe Martines had desired to see his last scientific work translated into English. This work is involved with atherosclerosis which is one of the themes that was most dear to him both as a clinician and as a researcher in electron microscopy. This desire, aimed at a wider diffusion of the Book and an easier use by researchers was taken up by his scholars who cooperated in this latter work. Certainly, the translation has resulted in some cases in a reduction in Prof. Martines’s linguistic expressiveness, who joined the formal elegance and the terminological refinement to the scientific text. However, the necessity to communicate and the changing of times impose primarily the use of English in order to obtain a greater circulation of research. With this popularizing target, the translated text is now being diffused, as Prof. Martines wanted, through the modern computerized systems to facilitate its use and valuing. English language and computerized systems, indeed, allow extending of knowledge results to wider areas of researches also offering greater visibility to the present Book.