Inflammatory Response in Cardiovascular Surgery

Part I. General Topics

1. Neuroendocrine Response and Shock
Riad N. Younes, Fernando C. Abrão

2. The Role of Lymphocytes in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: Focus on CD4+ T Cell Subsets
Ingrid E. Dumitriu, Juan Carlos Kaski

3. Immunological Mechanisms of Inflammation
Nilo José Coêlho Duarte, Cyro Alves Brito, Alberto José da Silva Duarte

Part II. Carotid Diseases

4. Role of Lipoproteins in Carotid Arterial Disease
Efthymios D. Avgerinos, Christos D. Liapis

5. Carotid Endarterectomy: Inflammatory Aspects
Sthefano Atique Gabriel, Edmo Atique Gabriel

6. Endovascular Treatment of Carotid Disease: Inflammatory Aspects
Sthefano Atique Gabriel, Edmo Atique Gabriel

Part III. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

7. Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Aortic Wall Degradation in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
George A. Antoniou, George S. Georgiadis

8. Role of Haptoglobin in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Valerio Napolioni

9. Inflammatory Aortic Aneurysm
Guilherme Vieira Meirelles

10. Endovascular Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Current Approaches and New Devices
Armando Carvalho Lobato, Robert Guimarães Nascimento, Ariele Milano Oliveira

11. Endovascular Treatment of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Frank J. Veith, Mario Lachat, Dieter Mayer, Zoran Rancic, Todd L. Berland, Neal S. Cayne

Part IV. Critical Lower Limb Ischemia

12. Thromboangiitis Obliterans
Otacílio Camargo Júnior, Juliana Lech Camargo

13. Inflammatory Markers and Mortality in Critical Lower Limb Ischemia
Anders Gottsäter

14. Arterial Wall Remodeling and Restenosis Following Vascular Reconstruction
Xue Ma, Randolph L. Geary

15. Shear Stress and Endothelial Cell Retention in Critical Lower Limb Ischemia
Caroline Jadlowiec, Alan Dardik

16. Arterial Transplantation for Limb Salvage
Thomas Hölzenbein, Nina Mader, Manuela Aspalter, Sophina Trubel, Klaus Linni

Part V. Vascular Trauma

17. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Vascular Trauma
Ramyar Gilani, Peter I. Tsai, Matthew J. Wall, Kenneth L. Mattox

18. Temporary Intravascular Shunt in Complex Vascular Injury
Ding Wei-wei, Li Jie-shou

Part VI. Venous Diseases

19. Metalloproteinases in Acute Venous Occlusion
Anita C. Thomas

20. Idiopathic Venous Thromboembolism
Crina Sinescu

21. Inflammation, Thrombogenesis, Fibrinolysis, and Vein Wall Remodeling After Deep Venous Thrombosis
Jose Antonio Diaz, Daniel Durant Myers

22. Varicose Veins: Venous Wall Changes, Inflammation, and Matrix Metalloproteinases
Joseph D. Raffetto

Part VII. Visceral Vasculopathy

23. Management of Aneurysms in Takayasu’s Arteritis
Christian Espinoza Silva, Diego Soto Valdés, Vania Rozas Almeida

24. Mesenteric Vasculitis
Mateus Picada-Correa, Gustavo S. Oderich

Part VIII. Peripheral Aneurysms

25. Inflammatory Peripheral Arterial Aneurysms
Gianluca Faggioli, Rodolfo Pini, Mauro Gargiulo, Antonio Freyrie, Raffaella Mauro, Andrea Stella

26. Endovascular Femoropopliteal Interventions: Evolving Devices
Cassidy Duran, Jean Bismuth

Part IX. Cardiopulmonary Bypass

27. Modulation of Inflammatory Response in Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Shahzad G. Raja

28. The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Children
Harald L. Lindberg, Tom N. Hoel

29. Vacuum-Assisted Venous Drainage in Cardiac Surgery
Wakako Fukuda, Takeshi Goto, Ikuo Fukuda

30. Miniaturize CPB Versus Off-Pump Surgery
Francesco Formica

31. Thyroid Hormones and Cardiovascular Surgery
Edmo Atique Gabriel, Sthefano Atique Gabriel

32. Inflammatory Response in Cardiovascular Surgery
Kaan Kaya

33. Lung Protection in Cardiovascular Surgery
Edmo Atique Gabriel, Sthefano Atique Gabriel

Part X. Coronary Artery Disease

34. Fifteen Years of ‘No-Touch’ Saphenous Vein Harvesting in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: What Have We Learned?
Michael R. Dashwood, Domingos S. R. Souza

35. Platelets and Coronary Artery Disease
Meinrad Gawaz, Harald Langer, Tobias Geisler

Part XI. Heart Valve Diseases

36. Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Valvulogenesis
Russell A. Gould, Jonathan T. Butcher

37. Dysfunctional Mechanisms of Anti-inflammation in Aortic Stenosis
David A. Fullerton, Xianzhong Meng

38. Heart Valve Surgery and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Carlos A. Mestres, Cecilia Marcacci, Gerard Espinosa, Jose L Pomar, Andrea Colli, Ricard Cervera

Part XII. Congenital Heart Diseases

39. Neurohormonal Factors in Pediatric Heart Surgery
Jacek Kolcz

40. Antifibrinolytic Therapy in Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery
Ehrenfried Schindler

41. Thromboembolism in Cyanotic Heart Disease: Mechanisms and Therapies
Toshio Nakanishi

42. Endovascular Management of Coarctation of the Aorta
Edward B. Diethrich

Part XIII. Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm

43. Inflammatory Response in Open and Endovascular Treatment
Edmo Atique Gabriel, Sthefano Atique Gabriel

44. Surgical Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm in Patients with Aortitis
Maqsood M. Elahi, Kenton J. Zehr

Part XIV. Heart and Lung Transplantation

45. Cytokine Profile in Heart Transplantation
Ahmet Ruchan Akar, Serkan Durdu, Bahadır Inan, Mustafa Sırlak

46. Platelet Activation After Lung Transplantation
David Sternberg, Joshua Sonett

47. Role of BNP in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Marcelo Biscegli Jatene, Estela Azeka

48. Nutritional Factors, Oxidative Stress and Lung Transplantation
Janet Madill, Bianca Arendt, Chung-Wai Chow, Johane Allard

Part XV. Ventricular Assist Device

49. Mechanical Unloading and Heart Remodeling Features
Nikolaos A. Diakos, Omar Wever-Pinzon, Anthony S. Zannas, Stavros G. Drakos

Part XVI. Stem Cells in Cardiovascular Surgery

50. Cytokine Profiles in Cardiac Diseases and Marrow Stromal Cells Therapy
Nasser Alkhamees, Alice Huu, Dominique Shum-Tim

51. Hypoxic Preconditioning of Cardiac Progenitor Cells for Ischemic Heart
Shiyue Xu, Gangjian Qin

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology