Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique

About this book

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 contributions from 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.