Color Atlas of Congenital Heart Surgery [Paperback]

This thorough revision of Color Atlas of Congenital Heart Surgery features 700 vividly reproduced intraoperative images taken with a special side-mounted flash. They convey exquisite perception of depth in the operative field in full color. The atlas presents surgical techniques for the full spectrum of cardiac congenital anomalies. This includes revised and updated text on many topics such as repair of straddling tricuspid valve associated with the posterior ventricular septal defect. Throughout the text, the carefully labeled photographs provide vivid representation of three-dimensional spatial relations of congenital anomalies and surgical anatomy.

This thorough revision of Color Atlas of Congenital Heart Surgery features 700 vividly reproduced full-color, intraoperative images. The atlas provides a comprehensive compendium of complex cardiothoracic surgical anatomy, the pathology of congenital.

The last three decades have witnessed enormous progress in the care of patients with congenital heart disease. Treatment of congenital heart disease is highly dependent on technology and much of the progress we have witnessed is attrib? utable to technological advances we take almost for granted today. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact of these advances; noteworthy examples include the development of 2-D Doppler echocardiography resulting in increased diagnostic accuracy, improvements in preoperative management including the use of prostaglandins for maintaining ductal patency, better intraoperative support such as the development of cardiopulmonary bypass circuits specifically designed for neonates and infants and improvements in postoperative care too numerous to delineate. As the spectrum of congenital heart disease we can treat successfully has broadened and the results have improved much of the focus has shifted, properly, to long-term issues such as neurodevelopmental outcome and quality of life. Despite the currentl�