HEART AND CORONARY ARTERIES : an anatomical atlas for clinical diagnosis, radiological ... investigation, and surgical treatment

The magnificent anatomic presentation in this book "The Heart and Cor­ onary Arteries" has a unique importance for surgeons. It is a fundamental contribution to the anatomy of the heart and great arteries as well, because of the analytical, detailed, and imaginative anatomic approach of the author. While surgery from time to time is influenced by the development of new physiologic principles and techniques, methods of intra- and post-operative support, and new diagnostic methodology, the excellence of its results con­ tinues to be related primarily to the precision and perfection of the opera­ tive procedure itself. The operative procedure can be precise and perfect only if it is based upon the surgeon's profound knowledge of normal anatomy, his understanding of the alterations in this normal anatomy by the pathol­ ogy with which he is dealing, and his ability to use this anatomic informa­ tion in organizing and effecting his surgical procedure. The cardiac sur­ geon, therefore, will find great rewards from intense study of this anatomic atlas. The cardiologist, the pediatric cardiologist, the anatomist, the pathol­ ogist, and students interested in cardiac disease will benefit to almost the same degree from a careful study of this work. May 1975 JOHN W. KIRKLIN, M. D. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Technique....Pages 1-8 An Introduction to the Aorto—Ventricular Unit....Pages 9-26 The Left Ventricle—General Considerations....Pages 27-38 The Mitral Valve....Pages 39-56 The Left Atrium....Pages 57-64 The Right Ventricle....Pages 65-86 The Right Atrium....Pages 87-100 An Attitudinal Review of the Heart—An Introduction to Spatial Clinical Investigations....Pages 101-122 The Great Vessels and the Pericardium....Pages 123-132 The Origin of the Coronary Arteries....Pages 133-150 The Arteries to the Atria and to the A. V Node....Pages 151-162 The Branches of the Coronary Arteries....Pages 163-178 The Course and Relations of the Branches of the Coronary Arteries....Pages 179-196 The Five Modes of Termination of the Posterior Division of the Left Coronary Artery....Pages 197-209 Back Matter....Pages 211-224