CARDIAC SURGERY IN THE ADULT

Author: Lawrence Cohn, MD
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN 10: 0071469133
ISBN 13: 9780071469135
Edition: 3rd

Description:

This readable, scholarly, comprehensive book focuses on the practice of cardiac surgery in the adult patient featuring over 1000 superb illustration depicting winning surgical technique. In addition, indications, pathophysiology, surgical decision making, complications, and results of surgical treatment are examined in depth. Master surgeon, L. Henry Edmunds, Jr. leads an all-star cast of contributors in this treatise that forms the perfect surgical complement to a textbook of cardiology.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

PART I Fundamentals

PART II Perioperative/Intraoperative Care

PART III Ischemic Heart Disease

PART IVa Valvular Heart Disease (Aortic)

PART IVb Valvular Heart Disease (Mitral)

PART IVc Valvular Heart Disease (Other)

PART V Diseases of the Great Vessels

PART VI Surgery for Cardiac Arrhythmias

PART VII Other Cardiac Operations

PART VIII Transplant and Circulatory Support