Overview
- Internationally renowned experts present state-of-the-art surgical indications and risk-adjusted therapeutic options for aortic and atrioventricular valve diseases:
- repair or replacement,
- ablation technique for concomitant atrial fibrillation,
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement,
- postoperative self-management anticoagulation, and
- tissue engineering of heart valves
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imaging of the aortic root
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Innovations in aortic valve surgery
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The Ross operation: Aortic valve and root replacement with pulmonary autograft
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Aortic valve repair and valve sparing root procedures
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Endocarditis
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About this book
The surgical treatment of the aortic valve and root disease, organic and ischemic mitral regurgitation, and endocarditis has made great strides. Still, there is the well-known dilemma: on the one hand the need for anticoagulation in patients with mechanical valves that otherwise guarantee long-term functioning and, on the other, the unpredictable durability of biological substitutes and of valve repair procedures which, per se, do not require anticoagulation. The choice of procedure is determined by factors such as patients' age, metabolic and bleeding disorders, and bleeding preconditions, as well as such critical issues as the desire to bear children in young women.
The book contains a collection of proceedings of The Berlin Heart Valve Symposium which was held in November 2008. It focuses on current surgical approaches to and evolving trends in aortic valve repair, aortic root and valve replacement with pulmonary autograft, aortic allograft, stentless and stented bioprostheses. Further contributions will deal with recent advances in catheter-based percutaneous and transapical techniques, ablation techniques for atrial fibrillation, tissue engineering of heart valves, multi-modality imaging, and anticoagulation.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aortic Root Surgery
Book Subtitle: The Biological Solution
Editors: Charles A. Yankah, Yuguo Weng, Roland Hetzer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7985-1869-8
Publisher: Steinkopff Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Steinkopff-Verlag Darmstadt 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7985-1868-1Published: 10 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52689-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7985-1869-8Published: 01 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 616
Topics: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology