Modern Cardiac Surgery: Based on the Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Course on Cardiac Surgery, organised by the British Postgraduate Medical Federation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The National Heart Hospital Surgical Lecture Transplantation of the heart....Pages 3-18
The Hammersmith Cardiac Lecture Aortic valve replacement with autologous fascia lata....Pages 19-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Echocardiography....Pages 27-36
Mitral valve disease: the case for cardiac catheterization....Pages 37-43
Closed mitral valvotomy....Pages 45-47
Open mitral valvotomy....Pages 49-52
Reconstruction of the mitral valve....Pages 53-57
Fluid dynamics of prosthetic heart valves....Pages 59-65
Aortic homograft valves for mitral valve replacement....Pages 67-74
Echocardiographic studies after mitral valve replacement....Pages 75-82
Haemolysis associated with prosthetic valves: cardiac haemolytic anaemia, red cell fragmentation syndrome....Pages 83-85
Thromboembolism and valve failure: a multi-centre valve study....Pages 87-91
Mitral valve replacement....Pages 93-101
Antimicrobial treatment of allograft valves....Pages 103-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Anatomy of the common atrioventricular canal....Pages 109-118
Conducting tissue in complete atrioventricular canal malformations....Pages 119-124
Atrioventricular canal: surgical anatomy and repair....Pages 125-130
Correction of complete atrioventricular canal in infancy....Pages 131-133
The results of repair of complete atrioventricular canal (A British multi-centre study)....Pages 135-139
Anatomy and conducting tissue in partial atrioventricular canal defects....Pages 141-147
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Surgery for ostium primum atrial septal defect....Pages 149-154
Endocardial cushion: partial A-V canal—long-term results....Pages 155-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Results of patent ductus arteriosus ligation in infants and children....Pages 163-166
Vascular rings....Pages 167-170
Surgical relief of coarctation of the aorta in infancy using the left subclavian arterial flap technique....Pages 171-178
Patent ductus arteriosus: indications, operative techniques, and postoperative care in infants....Pages 179-183
Recoarctation of the aorta....Pages 185-187
Coarctation of the aorta in the adult....Pages 189-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The development of the pulmonary circulation in pulmonary atresia....Pages 195-197
Surgical management of pulmonary atresia with confluent pulmonary arteries....Pages 199-200
Pulmonary atresia with non-confluent pulmonary arteries....Pages 201-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
The development of palliative operations for the tetralogy of Fallot....Pages 207-209
Tetralogy of Fallot: haemodynamic and angiocardiographic considerations....Pages 211-218
Late results of aortopulmonary shunts....Pages 219-221
Palliative surgery for cyanotic heart disease in infancy....Pages 223-224
Open infundibulectomy in Fallot’s tetralogy and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries....Pages 225-231
Anatomical correction of complete transposition of the great arteries in infancy....Pages 233-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Non-invasive study of left ventricular function....Pages 245-254
Factors affecting left ventricular performance....Pages 255-270
Elective cardiac arrest: historical perspective....Pages 271-275
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
The role of electrolyte and temperature changes in myocardial protection....Pages 277-284
Cold cardioplegia versus continuous coronary perfusion: clinical and cytochemical assessment....Pages 285-298
Low sodium-induced arrest in patients....Pages 299-307
Myocardial preservation during extended periods of ischaemia....Pages 309-318
Intraoperative protection of the heart: topical myocardial hypothermia....Pages 319-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
The Mustard operation....Pages 327-331
A current technique for the Mustard operation....Pages 333-338
Long-term results of the Mustard operation....Pages 339-339
Reoperation for complications of the Mustard operation: technical considerations....Pages 341-344
Management of transposition of the great arteries with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction....Pages 345-348
Rastelli operation....Pages 349-350
Atrial inversion for transposition of the great arteries using an intra-atrial dacron baffle: surgical technique and results....Pages 351-358
Transposition of the great arteries....Pages 359-360
Diagnosis of double outlet right ventricle (DORV) by M-mode echocardiography....Pages 361-364
Arrythmias after the Mustard operation: a study of 24-h tape monitoring....Pages 365-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Complicated atrioseptal defects....Pages 371-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-393