Surgical Options for the Treatment of Heart Failure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Masters, Roy G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1999.
• Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 225
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Thoracic surgery.; Surgical transplantation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Thoracic Surgery.; Transplant Surgery.; Cardiac Surgery.

Despite the significant decline in heart disease mortaht>' rates over the last 25 years, heart failure has remained a significant problem. We are now confronted with large numbers of terminally ill patients for whom conventional therapies for heart failure have been exhausted and for whom re...

Table of Contents:

• Pathophysiology of Contractile Dysfunction in Heart Failure
• Coronary artery bypass for advanced left ventricular dysfunction
• Valve surgery for regurgitant lesions of the aortic or mitral valves in advanced left ventricular dysfunction
• Left Ventricular Aneurysm Repair for the Management of Left Ventricular Dysfunction
• Selection and Management of the Potential Candidate for Cardiac Transplantation
• The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Fifteenth Official Report—1998
• Mechanical Circulatory Support
• Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty
• Partial Left Ventriculectomy
• Xenotransplantation
• Permanent Mechanical Circulatory Support.