Cardiac Surgery Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique

by Khonsari, Siavosh; Sintek, Colleen Flint

• ISBN13: 9780781769501
• ISBN10: 0781769507
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-05
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Now in its Fourth Edition, this text is a practical, heavily illustrated guide to procedures in cardiac surgery. Chapters cover acquired and congenital diseases and include surgical anatomy, surgical exposures, and step-by-step procedural details. The authors indicate pitfalls with a hazard sign and flag points of special interest with "NB" (Nota Bene). This edition has a new co-author Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS, the director of the UCLA heart, heart-lung, and lung transplant program. Highlights include a new chapter on heart transplantation. Also included are updates in minimally invasive surgery and vascular and endovascular surgery.

Table of Contents

Surgical Approaches to the Heart and Great Vessels	p. 3
Preparation for Cardiopulmonary Bypass	p. 21
Myocardial Preservation	p. 36
Venting and Deairing of the Heart	p. 40
Surgery of the Aortic Valve	p. 47
Surgery of the Mitral Valve	p. 86
Surgery of the Tricuspid Valve	p. 113
Surgery of the Aorta	p. 121
Surgery for Coronary Disease	p. 141
Surgery for Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction	p. 176
Heart Transplantation	p. 186
Cardiac Tumors	p. 192
Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation	p. 195
Patent Ductus Arteriosus	p. 201
Coarctation of the Aorta	p. 209
Pulmonary Artery Banding	p. 218
Vascular Ring and Pulmonary Artery Sling	p. 221
Systemic Pulmonary Shunting	p. 225
Atrial Septal Defect	p. 236
Total Anomalous Venous Connection	p. 247
Ventricular Septal Defect	p. 256
Atrioventricular Septal Defect	p. 266
Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction	p. 276
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction	p. 288
Transposition of the Great Vessels	p. 303
Aortopulmonary Window	p. 324
Truncus Arteriosus	p. 327
Ebstein Anomaly	p. 333
Interrupted and Hypoplastic Aortic Arch	p. 338
The Norwood Principle	p. 343
The Fontan Principle	p. 354
Coronary Artery Anomalies	p. 367
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