Over 10 years after the publication of the second edition, Wileynow publishes the third edition of the popular volume Surgeryfor Congenital Heart Defects.
Completely updated and expanded, this new edition describesstep-by-step the surgical procedures for congenital heart defectsand includes detailed illustrations for each operation.
New in this edition are chapters on exercise testing, MRI, EPstudies and catheter ablation of arrhythmias, extracorporealcirculatory support and paediatric lung transplantation. A greatlyexpanded ultrasound chapter contains numerous colourDoppler's of many conditions.
Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects, ThirdEdition:
* Provides complete coverage of the current issues in paediatriccardiac surgery
* Offers tips and surgical techniques to master difficultsurgical situations
* Uniquely displays detailed illustrations for each operation,allowing surgeons to follow all operating proceduresstep-by-step
* Serves both as reference and training manual
Jaroslav F. Stark
Cardiovascular Disease Chirurgie u. chirurgische Spezialgebiete Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen Medical Science Medizin Surgery & Surgical Specialities
"A user-friendly and instructive resource that is sure to beof great value to many physicians. Even the greenest medicalstudent wades comfortably into the depths of the text and feelsempowered by the visual feast that awaits. Medical illustratorMichael Courtney provides an abundance of impeccably detaileddrawings, the quality of which is central to the text and helps setit apart from others in the field. Excellent integration of thefigures into the text, which, coupled with the appropriateweighting of outcome measures and analyses of results, makes thetext feel manageable. The editors ... expertly maintain abalance between the extremes of encyclopedic esoteric andminimalist manuals to produce a text that will prove a cherishedresource on the desk of nearly every pediatric cardiacsurgeon." (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine,December 2008)
"...an excellent update of a classic book...it iscomplete, well written, edited by outstanding authorities in thefield..." (Doody's Health Services)
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