Cardiac Surgery: Operations on the Heart and Great Vessels in Adults and Children

This text describes and illustrates with some 700 detailed anatomic and surgical drawings the whole spectrum of surgical procedures employed to treat acquired and congenital diseases of the heart and great vessels in adults and children.

A rather traditional chapter on history of cardiac surgery precedes chapters dedicated to quality improvement, followed by ICU management in adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, and techniques of extracorporeal circulation in both age groups.

Further special topics are cardiovascular tissue engineering, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, endovascular treatment of aortic diseases, and cardiac assist devices, including total artificial heart.

Written by 71 internationally recognized experts from 40 cardiac units in Central Europe and North America, this book will be invaluable not only for both novice and experienced surgeons, but also for all physicians, nurses, and technicians caring for patients with heart disease of any type, at any age.

Table of contents:

The History of Cardiac Surgery

Pages 3-31

Leitz, Knut H., MD (et al.)

Risk Scores in Cardiac Surgery

Pages 33-66

Boethig, Dietmar, MD, PhD, MS (et al.)

Principles of Quality Assurance and Risk Management Risk

Pages 67-84

Ennker, Juergen, MD, PhD (et al.)

Quality Control in Cardiac Surgery in the United States

Pages 85-94

Loebe, Matthias, MD, PhD (et al.)

Databases in Cardiac Surgery

Pages 95-108

Schiller, Wolfgang, MD (et al.)

Extracorporeal Circulation and Myocardial Protection in Adult Cardiac Surgery

Pages 111-152

Schmid, Christof, MD

Advances in Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Neonate and Infant

Pages 153-170

Jonas, Richard A., MD

Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

Pages 171-193

Wilhelmi, Mathias H., MD (et al.)

Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care

Pages 195-250

Markewitz, Andreas, MD, PhD, Col. (et al.)

Critical Care in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Pages 251-287

Kaulitz, Renate, MD, PhD (et al.)

Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects: A Historical Perspective

Pages 291-297

Castañeda, Aldo R., MD, PhD

Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections and Congenital Defects of the Atria, the Atrioventricular Septum, and the Atrioventricular Valves

Pages 299-423

Alexi-Meskhishvili, Vladimir, MD, PhD (et al.)

Definite Palliation of Functional Single Ventricle

Pages 425-462

Lange, Rüdiger (et al.)

Ventricular Septal Defects

Pages 463-480

Heinemann, Markus K., MD, PhD

Congenital Heart Disease with Anomalies of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract

Pages 481-530

Ziemer, Gerhard, MD, PhD (et al.)

Anomalies of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract

Pages 531-579

Hraška, Viktor, VH, MD, PhD (et al.)

Surgery for Aortic Atresia, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, and Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex

Pages 581-595

Mair, Rudolf, MD (et al.)

Common Arterial Trunk

Pages 597-605

Asfour, Boulos (et al.)

Congenitally Corrected Transposition and D-Transposition of the Great Arteries

Pages 607-640

Daebritz, Sabine H., MD (et al.)

Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries and Coronary Diseases of Children and Adolescents

Pages 641-661

Haller, Christoph, MD (et al.)

Congenital Anomalies of the Great Vessels

Pages 663-718

Ziemer, Gerhard, MD, PhD (et al.)

Coronary Artery Disease

Pages 721-742

Cremer, Jochen T., MD, PhD (et al.)

Left Ventricular Reconstruction and Conventional Surgery for Cardiac Failure

Pages 743-757

Beyersdorf, Friedhelm, MD, PhD (et al.)

Acquired Lesions of the Aortic Valve

Pages 759-794

Misfeld, Martin, MD, PhD (et al.)

Surgery for Acquired AV-Valve Diseases

Pages 795-829

Rahmanian, Parwis B., MD, PD (et al.)