Overview
Collects comprehensive information on the topic from its pathophysiology, natural history and assessment, to its surgical treatment (including detailed surgical techniques), and long-term results.
Provides broad clinical coverage of the topic as well as detailed information of interest to cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.
Incorporates information and knowledge from basic science to clinical to operative techniques, providing a true bench to bedside review of functional mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Functional Ischaemic Mitral Regurgitation
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Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation
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About this book
This book covers in detail all aspects of functional mitral and tricuspid regurgitation, from its pathophysiology and natural history, to its assessment, medical and surgical treatment, and long term results.
Functional Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation encompasses information and knowledge from a diverse background including cardiology, cardiac surgery and basic science. This is necessary for a full understanding of the subject in order to optimally manage patients with this condition.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
He has a large clinical practice in the full range of adult cardiac and thoracic surgery, including coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, aortic, aortic valve, mitral and tricuspid valve surgery, mediastinal surgery, lung surgery, pleural surgery and video assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) surgery. He has a special interest in mitral and tricuspid valve repair surgery and received advanced training in mitral and tricuspid valve repair techniques from Professor Gilles Dreyfus at Harefield Hospital, U.K., and the Cardiothoracic Centre of Monaco, and Mr Prakash Punjabi at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, amongst others.
He has lectured and published extensively on Functional Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation, including delivering a Hunterian Lecture on the subject for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and obtaining a PhD on this from Imperial College London, U.K.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation
Book Subtitle: Pathophysiology, Assessment and Treatment
Editors: Kok Meng John Chan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43510-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43508-4Published: 04 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82842-8Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43510-7Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Imaging