Cardiac Surgery Operations on the Heart and Great Vessels in Adults and Children

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 The History of Cardiac Surgery  (Knut H. Leitz, Gerhard Ziemer)....Pages 3-31
 Risk Scores in Cardiac Surgery  (Dietmar Boethig, Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs)....Pages 33-66
 Principles of Quality Assurance and Risk Management Risk  (Juergen Ennker, Tobias Walker)....Pages 67-84
 Quality Control in Cardiac Surgery in the United States  (Matthias Loebe, Mark G. Davies)....Pages 85-94
 Databases in Cardiac Surgery  (Wolfgang Schiller, Jan F. Gummert)....Pages 95-108
Front Matter ....Pages 109-109
 Extracorporeal Circulation and Myocardial Protection in Adult Cardiac Surgery  (Christof Schmid)....Pages 111-152
 Advances in Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Neonate and Infant  (Richard A. Jonas)....Pages 153-170
 Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering  (Mathias H. Wilhelmi, Axel Haverich)....Pages 171-193
 Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care  (Andreas Markewitz, Axel Franke, René H. Bombien, Ali Khoynezhad)....Pages 195-250
 Critical Care in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery  (Renate Kaulitz, Allison L. Thompson, Gerhard Ziemer)....Pages 251-287
Front Matter ....Pages 289-290
 Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects: A Historical Perspective  (Aldo R. Castañeda)....Pages 291-297
 Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections and Congenital Defects of the Atria, the Atrioventricular Septum, and the Atrioventricular Valves  (Vladimir Alexi-Meskhishvili, Axel Unbehaun, Roland Hetzer)....Pages 299-423
 Definite Palliation of Functional Single Ventricle  (Rüdiger Lange, Jürgen Hörer)....Pages 425-462
 Ventricular Septal Defects  (Markus K. Heinemann)....Pages 463-480
 Congenital Heart Disease with Anomalies of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract  (Gerhard Ziemer, Renate Kaulitz)....Pages 481-530
 Anomalies of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract  (Viktor Hraška, Joachim Photiadis)....Pages 531-579
 Surgery for Aortic Atresia, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, and Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex  (Rudolf Mair, Eva Sames-Dolzer)....Pages 581-595
 Common Arterial Trunk  (Boulos Asfour, Lennart Duebener)....Pages 597-605
 Congenitally Corrected Transposition and D-Transposition of the Great Arteries  (Sabine H. Daebritz, Michel Ilbawi)....Pages 607-640
 Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries and Coronary Diseases of Children and Adolescents  (Christoph Haller, Christian Schlensak)....Pages 641-661
 Congenital Anomalies of the Great Vessels  (Gerhard Ziemer, Renate Kaulitz)....Pages 663-718
Front Matter ....Pages 719-720
 Coronary Artery Disease  (Jochen T. Cremer, Jan Schöttler, Grischa Hoffmann)....Pages 721-742
 Left Ventricular Reconstruction and Conventional Surgery for Cardiac Failure  (Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Matthias Siepe)....Pages 743-757
 Acquired Lesions of the Aortic Valve  (Martin Misfeld, Efstratios I. Charitos, Hans-Hinrich Sievers)....Pages 759-794
 Surgery for Acquired AV-Valve Diseases  (Parwis B. Rahmanian, Thorsten C. W. Wahlers)....Pages 795-829
 Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery  (Jens Garbade, Sreekumar Subramanian, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr)....Pages 831-867
 Aneurysm and Dissection of the Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aorta  (Matthias Karck, Klaus Kallenbach)....Pages 869-911
 Endovascular Surgical Therapy of Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Disease of the Aorta  (Ali Khoynezhad, René H. Bombien, Aamir Shah)....Pages 913-946
 Surgical Therapy of Atrial Fibrillation  (Timo Weimar, Kai-Nicolas Doll)....Pages 947-963
 Device Therapy of Rhythm Disorders  (Heiko Burger, Tibor Ziegelhöffer, Kai-Nicholas Doll)....Pages 965-994
 Cardiac Tumors and Pericardial Diseases  (Christof Schmid)....Pages 995-1008
 Cardiac Injury  (Thierry Carrel)....Pages 1009-1016
 Combined Procedures in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery  (Heinz G. Jakob, Stephan C. Knipp)....Pages 1017-1031
 Combined Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery  (Mark K. Ferguson)....Pages 1033-1040
 Pulmonary Embolectomy and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy  (Stein Iversen)....Pages 1041-1060
 Lung Transplantation  (Clemens Aigner, Walter Klepetko)....Pages 1061-1077
 Heart and Heart–Lung Transplantation  (Bruno Meiser, Bruno Reichart)....Pages 1079-1102
 Cardiac Assist Devices and Total Artificial Heart  (Reiner Koerfer, Sotirios Spiliopoulos, Gero Tenderich)....Pages 1103-1127
 Postoperative Sternal Complications  (Christof Schmid, Shahab A. Akhter)....Pages 1129-1135
Back Matter ....Pages 1137-1158