Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fang, James C. (Editor), Couper, Gregory S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.

Surgical therapy for advanced heart failure has been traditionally limited to cardiac transplantation. Historically, other surgical interventions on the failing heart have been limited by significant perio-operative morbidity and mortality and a lack of evidence that such surgical interventions impr...