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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
In |
Springer eBooks |
Subject |
Heart -- Surgery.
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Heart -- Transplantation.
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Thoracic Surgery -- methods
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Heart Transplantation
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Perioperative Period -- methods
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Médecine.
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Heart -- Transplantation
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Heart -- Surgery
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Podesser, Bruno K.
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Chambers, David J.
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LC no. |
2010937109 |
ISBN |
9783211855485 |
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3211855483 |
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