Overview
Describes various relevant aspects of aortic regurgitation from morphology and diagnostics to surgical treatments
Contains exceptional medical illustration, operative photos, diagnostic images and schemes
Provides historical background and cultural connotations
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This title is a comprehensive resource of aortic regurgitation suitable for both the novice and experienced practitioner. Detailed attention is given to the recently growing field of aortic valve-sparing surgery and aortic valve repair. Guidelines are also provided for general practitioners on how to treat patients after various aortic procedures. Also included are many operative photos, original medical illustrations and schematics.
Aortic Regurgitation synthesizes current knowledge of aortic valve repair into an easy-to-follow, illustration-rich text. It is therefore an indispensable guide suitable for use by cardiologists and trainees in cardiology, cardiac surgeons, echocardiographers, general practitioners and radiologists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Pavel Zacek works as a consultant cardiac surgeon for adult cardiac surgery. He also teaches medical students at the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove. He is the author and co-author of 107 papers and a main author of a multimedia electronic textbook Interactive Cardiac Surgery, Springer Heidelberg 2005, and co-author of Heart Valve Surgery - An Illustrated Guide, Springer Heidelberg 2010.
Professor Jan Dominik specialises in heart valve surgery. He is the author of the textbook Kardiochirurgie (Karolinum, Prague, 1997) and the monograph Kardiochirurgie (Grada Publishing, Prague, 1998), and a co-author of Interactive Cardiac Surgery (Springer, 2005), author of Chirurgie srdečních chlopní (Grada, 2008) and Heart Valve Surgery (An Illustrated Guide), Springer Heidelberg 2010. He is the Honorary Member of the Czech Society of Cardiology and a fellow of several international scientific societies.Between 1991 and 2005 he was the Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Charles University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, and between 1997 and 2003 he was also the vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aortic Regurgitation
Editors: Jan Vojacek, Pavel Zacek, Jan Dominik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74213-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74212-0Published: 11 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08938-2Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74213-7Published: 25 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 305
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 288 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Surgery