BookAbbas Ardehali, MD, Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
... Show More William E. Connor Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Director, UCLA Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, Jonathan M. Chen, MD, Professor of Surgerey, Sam and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Chief of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington ; illustrators, Timothy C. Hengst, CMI, FAMI, BodyScientific International, LLC.
Contents:
Section I: General considerations. Surgical approaches to the heart and great vessels
Preparation for cardiopulmonary bypass
Myocardial preservation
Venting and deairing of the heart
Section II: Surgery for acquired heart disease. Surgery of the aortic valve
Surgery of the mitral valve
Surgery of the tricuspid valve
Surgery of the aorta
Surgery for coronary disease
Surgery for mechanical complications of myocardial infarction
Heart transplantation
Cardiac tumors
Surgery for atrial fibrillation
Section III: Surgery for congenital heart defects. Patent ductus arteriosus
Coarctation of the aorta
Pulmonary artery banding
Vascular ring and pulmonary artery sling
Systemic pulmonary shunting
Atrial septal defect
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Ventricular septal defect
Atrioventricular septal defect
Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction
Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
Transposition of the great vessels
Aortopulmonary window
Truncus arteriosus
Ebstein anomaly
Interrupted and hypoplastic aortic arch
The Norwood principle
The Fontan principle
Coronary artery anomalies.