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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery /
This book is a history of cardiac surgery in the words of the first generation of surgeons. Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramati...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Significant Events in Cardiac Surgery; A Short History of Cardiac Surgery; Stab Wounds of the Heart; Alexis Carrel and Charles Guthrie; Trendelenburg and Pulmonary Embolectomy; Mitral Stenosis in the 1920s; Patent Ductus Arteriosus; Coarctation of the Aorta; Tetralogy of Fallot and the Blue Baby Operation; World War II; Post-World War II Developments; Development of the Heart-Lung Machine; Lillehei and Cross-Circulation; DeWall and a Practical Heart-Lung Machine; The Starr-Edwards Valve; Coronary Artery Surgery; Cardiac Transplantation.
- Total Artificial HeartThe Early Years; William P. Longmire, MD; Viking O. Bjork, MD; C. Walton Lillehei, MD, PhD; Richard A. DeWall, MD; William H. Muller, MD; Harris B. Shumacker Jr., MD; Geoffrey Wooler, FRCS; Michael E. DeBakey, MD; C. Rollins Hanlon, MD; Frank C. Spencer, MD; Henry T. Bahnson, MD; Congenital Heart Surgery; Judson G. Randolph, MD; Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD; Paul A. Ebert, MD; Harvey W. Bender, MD; Denton A. Cooley, MD; J. Alex Haller Jr., MD; Valvular Heart Surgery; Albert Starr, MD; Donald N. Ross, FRCS; George J. Magovern, MD; Robert B. Wallace, MD.
- Francis Robicsek, MD, PhDAlain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD; Vincent L. Gott, MD; Alden H. Harken, MD; Coronary Artery Surgery; Rene G. Favaloro, MD; George E. Green, MD; W. Dudley Johnson, MD; John L. Ochsner, MD; Floyd D. Loop, MD; Thomas J. Fogarty, MD; Transplant-Artificial Heart; Norman E. Shumway,MD, PhD; Christiaan Barnard, MD, PhD; James D. Hardy, MD; Sir Terence English, FRCS; William C. DeVries, MD; Arrhythmia Surgery; William C. Sealy, MD; James R. Jude, MD; Index; Illustration Credits.