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New Solutions for the Heart

An Update in Advanced Perioperative Protection

  • Compendium of the latest state-of-the-art in myocardial protection

  • Contributions of well-known experts in the field of myocardial protection

  • Focus on requirements of special patient collectives

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Sites of Injury: Myocyte

      • David J. Chambers
      Pages 41-55
    3. Sites of Injury: The Endothelium

      • Johann Wojta
      Pages 57-69
  4. Special Focus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Intraoperative Protection of the Myocardium: Effects of Age and Gender

      • James D. McCully, Sidney Levitsky
      Pages 73-92
    3. Protection of the Right Heart

      • Gábor Szabó
      Pages 93-107
    4. Protection of the Failing Heart

      • Bruno K. Podesser, Karola Trescher, Wolfgang Dietl
      Pages 109-129
    5. Protection During Heart Transplantation

      • Allanah Barker, Stephen Large
      Pages 131-141
  5. New Approaches and Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. The Endothelium As Target for Interventions

      • Seth Hallström, Bruno K. Podesser
      Pages 145-166
    3. Vascular Effects of Cardioplegic Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Bypass

      • Neel R. Sodha, Michael P. Robich, Frank W. Sellke
      Pages 167-178
    4. Oxygen Radical Scavengers

      • Jack A. T. C. Parker, Uwe Mehlhorn
      Pages 179-197
    5. New Approaches to Cardioplegia: Alternatives to Hyperkalemia

      • David J. Chambers, Hazem B. Fallouh
      Pages 199-219
    6. Myocardial Protection via the Coronary Venous Route

      • Werner Mohl, Dejan Milasinovic, Sarah Burki
      Pages 221-248
    7. Donor Heart Preservation by Continuous Perfusion

      • Andreas Zuckerman, Arezu Aliabadi, Gernot Seebacher
      Pages 249-268
    8. Visualization of Cardioplegia Delivery

      • Lawrence S. Lee, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, Frederick Y. Chen
      Pages 269-282

About this book

Although cardiac surgery has made an enormous progress during the last decades, the discipline has to cope with essential changes: Patients are increasingly cared for by cardiologists and therefore referred to the surgeon in a later stage of disease. Consequently, they are more often in an increasingly serious state or in advanced age with significant comorbidities.

In order to meet the requirements of these different patient groups, cardiosurgical treatments require special protectional strategies for the heart in order to perform the planned operations safely. This book presents the latest knowledge of modern techniques of myocardial protection taking into consideration the different patient groups and current scientific strategies. Furthermore, it discusses present and future scientific approaches in myocardial protection and preservation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Cardiac Surgery, Landesklinikum St. Pölten, St. Pölten, Austria

    Bruno K. Podesser

  • St Thomas Hospital, London SE1 7EH, United Kingdom

    David J. Chambers

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Solutions for the Heart

  • Book Subtitle: An Update in Advanced Perioperative Protection

  • Editors: Bruno K. Podesser, David J. Chambers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-85548-5

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag/Wien 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-85547-8Published: 19 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1913-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-85548-5Published: 28 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 287

  • Topics: Cardiac Surgery, Transplant Surgery, Cardiology, Anesthesiology

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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