Heart Valve Surgery An Illustrated Guide
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the surgical treatment of heart valve disease. The aim is to provide the reader with precise information on treatment modalities, indications, and specific situations that may be encountered. After introductory
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Heart Valve Surgery An Illustrated Guide
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Heart Valve Surgery
Jan Dominik • Pavel Zacek
Heart Valve Surgery An Illustrated Guide
Dr. Jan Dominik Dr. Pavel Zacek Department of Cardiac Surgery Charles University in Prague Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove University Hospital Hradec Kralove 500 05 Hradec Kralove Czech Republic [email protected]
Originally published in 2008 by Grada Publishing, a.s. Czech Republic with the following title: “Chirurgie srdeÿních chlopní (...nejen pro kardiochirurgy)”. ISBN 978-3-642-12205-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12206-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12206-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928389
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Preface The four heart valves reside in the center of the heart. This indicates their crucial role in cardiac performance. Faultless function of the valves is a prerequisite for unidirectional forward movement of the blood, and such function is necessary to support the efforts of the cardiac atria and ventricles. Healthy heart valves function gracefully and offer mechanical durability. Bioengineers have to marvel at the biomechanical evolution of these perfectly placed valves. Heart valves can be involved in pathological processes, however, and only then do we realize just how indispensable they really are. At one time, serious valve disorders used to be a matter of life and death for patients. Only in recent decades have surgeons been able to reverse the ominous course of heart valve disease and offer patients a quality of
life and life span comparable to that of healthy persons. The story of this effort began approximately 100 years ago, and today heart valve surgery is a substantial subspecialty of cardiac surgery, with accumulated experience in indications, procedures, risks, and outco
