Recent Advances and Techniques in Cardiac Surgery

Summary:
'Cardiac Surgery: Recent Advances and Techniques' is a concise but invaluable textbook for those involved in the practice of cardiac surgery, both trainees and established cardiac surgeons.

Cardiac disease is currently the number one cause of mortality in the Western world. The field of cardiac surgery continues to expand with the development of new techniques and operations as well as the refinement of well-established surgical procedures. In parallel with this, the demand for knowledge regarding how these new procedures are performed is also increasing. 'Cardiac Surgery: Recent Advances and Techniques' describes in detail all of the new developments in this expanding speciality of cardiac surgery.

With chapters authored by the world's leading experts, 'Cardiac Surgery' provides a concise yet encompassing surgical text, which allows the reader to discover the new developments in the field of adult cardiac surgery.

Each chapter includes a key point summary, the latest and most important key references and up-to-date information regarding the latest current trials. The chapters are accompanied by full colour illustrations to aid the learning process.

• Systematically covers all the new developments in the field of cardiac surgery
• Full colour illustrations aid understanding to the reader
• Chapters written by the recognized leaders in the field of each of the new techniques
• Global perspective
• Key Points, Key References and up-to-date information regarding the latest current trials provide a unique learning aid

Table of Contents:
1. Minimally invasive CABG
2. Tricuspid valve disease
3. Minimally invasive extra-corporeal circulation (MECC)
4. Aortic valve repair
5. Trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
6. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS)
7. Mechanical circulatory support
8. Left ventricular remodeling surgery
9. Cellular cardiomyoplasty / stem cell therapy
10. Valve sparing aortic root replacement
11. Endovascular stent grafting of the thoracic aorta
12. Arrhythmia surgery

About the Author(s):
Narain Moorjani, MB ChB, MRCS, MD, FRCS (C-Th), Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, Sunil K. Ohri, MD, FRCS (Eng, Ed & CTh), FESC, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton University Hospital, Southampton, UK and Andrew S. Wechsler, MD, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hahnemann University Hospital, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA

Readership:
Cardiac surgeons (residents at any stage of their training programme and established cardiac surgeons)