Congenital Heart Defects Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume
Expressly created to assist with decision making for surgical treatment of congenital heart defects, this new reference covers all relevant aspects. The Congenital Heart Defects are presented with each chapter devoted to a single malformation, with incide
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I Congenital Heart Defects Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume 2
Less Common Defects
Dedicated to my loved children Federica, Laura and Jonathan
A N T O N I O F. C O R N O
Congenital Heart Defects Decision Making for Cardiac Surgery Volume 2
Less Common Defects
Foreword by P E D R O J. D E L N I D O
With 145 Figures in 340 Separate Illustrations
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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) 46, rue du Bugnon CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Foreword
Nearly four decades have passed since attempts at correcting intracardiac defects in children first began to succeed. In that time great advances have occurred in our field, including improved diagnostic techniques as well as our ability to manage even the most complex heart defects with relatively low risk and an expected outcome that was unimaginable just twenty years ago. New non-invasive techniques for imaging the heart have largely supplanted more invasive methods such as angiography for the diagnosis of most heart d
