The Operated Heart at Autopsy

• Main Author: Houser, Stuart Lair (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic science.; Forensic medicine.; Cardiology.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Forensic Science.; Forensic Medicine.

The Operated Heart at Autopsy addresses the need of pathologists in practice and, especially, in training to achieve a new level of competence in dealing, at the time of autopsy, with the anatomic complexity of a heart that has undergone previous surgical treatment, whether that treatment occurred i...

Table of Contents:

• External Evidence of Open-Heart Surgery
• Exposing the Cardiopulmonary Block
• The Postmortem Coronary Injection
• The Cardiac Dissection
• Putting It All Together
• Congenital Heart Disease and Surgical Footprints
• A Matter of Mindset.