Cardiac Surgery

I. Introduction

1. The History of Cardiac Surgery
Knut H. Leitz, Gerhard Ziemer

2. Risk Scores in Cardiac Surgery
Dietmar Boethig, Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs

3. Principles of Quality Assurance and Risk Management Risk
Juergen Ennker, Tobias Walker

4. Quality Control in Cardiac Surgery in the United States
Matthias Loebe, Mark G. Davies

5. Databases in Cardiac Surgery
Wolfgang Schiller, Jan F. Gummert

II. Technical Prerequisites

6. Extracorporeal Circulation and Myocardial Protection in Adult Cardiac Surgery
Christof Schmid

7. Advances in Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Neonate and Infant
Richard A. Jonas

8. Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
Mathias H. Wilhelmi, Axel Haverich

9. Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care
Andreas Markewitz, Axel Franke, René H. Bombien, Ali Khoynezhad

10. Critical Care in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Renate Kaulitz, Allison L. Thompson, Gerhard Ziemer

III. Congenital Anomalies of the Heart and Great Vessels

11. Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects: A Historical Perspective
Aldo R. Castañeda

12. Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections and Congenital Defects of the Atria, the Atrioventricular Septum, and the Atrioventricular Valves
Vladimir Alexi-Meskhishvili, Axel Unbehaun, Roland Hetzer

13. Definite Palliation of Functional Single Ventricle
Rüdiger Lange, Jürgen Hörer

14. Ventricular Septal Defects
Markus K. Heinemann

15. Congenital Heart Disease with Anomalies of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract
Gerhard Ziemer, Renate Kaulitz

16. Anomalies of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract
Viktor Hraška, Joachim Photiadis

17. Surgery for Aortic Atresia, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, and Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex
Rudolf Mair, Eva Sames-Dolzer

18. Common Arterial Trunk
Boulos Asfour, Lennart Duebener

19. Congenitally Corrected Transposition and D-Transposition of the Great Arteries
Sabine H. Daebritz, Michel Ilbawi

20. Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries and Coronary Diseases of Children and Adolescents
Christoph Haller, Christian Schlensak

21. Congenital Anomalies of the Great Vessels
Gerhard Ziemer, Renate Kaulitz

IV. Acquired Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels

22. Coronary Artery Disease
Jochen T. Cremer, Jan Schöttler, Grischa Hoffmann

23. Left Ventricular Reconstruction and Conventional Surgery for Cardiac Failure
Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Matthias Siepe

24. Acquired Lesions of the Aortic Valve
Martin Misfeld, Efstratios I. Charitos, Hans-Hinrich Sievers

25. Surgery for Acquired AV-Valve Diseases
Parwis B. Rahmanian, Thorsten C. W. Wahlers

26. Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Jens Garbade, Sreekumar Subramanian, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr

27. Aneurysm and Dissection of the Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Aorta
Matthias Karck, Klaus Kallenbach

28. Endovascular Surgical Therapy of Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Disease of the Aorta
Ali Khoynezhad, René H. Bombien, Aamir Shah

29. Surgical Therapy of Atrial Fibrillation
Timo Weimar, Kai-Nicolas Doll

30. Device Therapy of Rhythm Disorders
Heiko Burger, Tibor Ziegelhöffer, Kai-Nicholas Doll

31. Cardiac Tumors and Pericardial Diseases
Christof Schmid

32. Cardiac Injury
Thierry Carrel

33. Combined Procedures in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
Heinz G. Jakob, Stephan C. Knipp

34. Combined Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Mark K. Ferguson

35. Pulmonary Embolectomy and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
Stein Iversen

36. Lung Transplantation
Clemens Aigner, Walter Klepetko

37. Heart and Heart–Lung Transplantation
Bruno Meiser, Bruno Reichart

38. Cardiac Assist Devices and Total Artificial Heart
Reiner Koerfer, Sotirios Spiliopoulos, Gero Tenderich

39. Postoperative Sternal Complications
Christof Schmid, Shahab A. Akhter

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Surgery, Cardiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine