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Title New solutions for the heart : an update in advanced perioperative protection / edited by Bruno K. Podesser, David J. Chambers
Published Wien ; London : Springer, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : tables, figures (some color)
Contents The changing population: the surgeon's challenge -- Fundamentals of the past: cardioplegia: the first period revisited -- Sites of injury: myocyte -- Sites of injury: the endothelium -- Intraoperative protection of the myocardium: effects of age and gender -- Protection of the right heart -- Protection of the failing heart -- Protection during heart transplantation -- The endothelium as target for interventions -- Vascular effects of cardioplegic arrest and cardiopulmonary bypass -- Oxygen radical scavengers -- New approaches to cardioplegia: alternatives to hyperkalemia -- Myocardial protection via the coronary venous route -- Donor heart preservation by continuous perfusion -- Visualization of cardioplegia delivery
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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In Springer eBooks
Subject Heart -- Surgery.
Heart -- Transplantation.
Thoracic Surgery -- methods
Heart Transplantation
Perioperative Period -- methods
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Médecine.
Heart -- Transplantation
Heart -- Surgery
Form Electronic book
Author Podesser, Bruno K.
Chambers, David J.
LC no. 2010937109
ISBN 9783211855485
3211855483