Modern Cardiac Surgery : Based on the Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Course on Cardiac Surgery, Organised by the British Postgraduate Medical Federation

Modern Cardiac Surgery is based on, but does not consist completely of, papers submitted at the annual course of cardiac surgery run by the combined Institutes and Post-Graduate Hospitals involved in cardiac surgery in London (1977). The subjects which have been chosen and included fulfil one of two criteria; either they are subjects which were not included in the previous book, The Current Status of Cardiac Surgery, or they cover subjects which needed to be updated. Because this is a teaching course and not a symposium, the emphasis has been on being informative rather than on presenting masses of results. The book has been prepared partly from manuscripts submitted by the authors and partly from annotated tapes of the proceedings of the meeting. Through­ out the editing and production of this book careful consideration has been given to the requirements of the readership. The book is aimed at all students of cardiac surgery and cardiology at all levels, and as much information as possible has been packed into it. Neverthe­ less, the editor wishes to thank the authors for the efforts they have made to be concise and clear in their presentation and for their tremendous co-opera­ tion in alterations which have been incorporated to make it a more readable treatise. This means that this is a book which is of value to nurses interested in cardiology in intensive care, to physiotherapists and students wishing to look up particular topics before their final examinations. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The National Heart Hospital Surgical Lecture Transplantation of the heart....Pages 3-18 The Hammersmith Cardiac Lecture Aortic valve replacement with autologous fascia lata....Pages 19-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Echocardiography....Pages 27-36 Mitral valve disease: the case for cardiac catheterization....Pages 37-43 Closed mitral valvotomy....Pages 45-47 Open mitral valvotomy....Pages 49-52 Reconstruction of the mitral valve....Pages 53-57 Fluid dynamics of prosthetic heart valves....Pages 59-65 Aortic homograft valves for mitral valve replacement....Pages 67-74 Echocardiographic studies after mitral valve replacement....Pages 75-82 Haemolysis associated with prosthetic valves: cardiac haemolytic anaemia, red cell fragmentation syndrome....Pages 83-85 Thromboembolism and valve failure: a multi-centre valve study....Pages 87-91 Mitral valve replacement....Pages 93-101 Antimicrobial treatment of allograft valves....Pages 103-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Anatomy of the common atrioventricular canal....Pages 109-118 Conducting tissue in complete atrioventricular canal malformations....Pages 119-124 Atrioventricular canal: surgical anatomy and repair....Pages 125-130 Correction of complete atrioventricular canal in infancy....Pages 131-133 The results of repair of complete atrioventricular canal (A British multi-centre study)....Pages 135-139 Anatomy and conducting tissue in partial atrioventricular canal defects....Pages 141-147 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Surgery for ostium primum atrial septal defect....Pages 149-154 Endocardial cushion: partial A-V canal—long-term results....Pages 155-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Results of patent ductus arteriosus ligation in infants and children....Pages 163-166 Vascular rings....Pages 167-170 Surgical relief of coarctation of the aorta in infancy using the left subclavian arterial flap technique....Pages 171-178 Patent ductus arteriosus: indications, operative techniques, and postoperative care in infants....Pages 179-183 Recoarctation of the aorta....Pages 185-187 Coarctation of the aorta in the adult....Pages 189-192 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 The development of the pulmonary circulation in pulmonary atresia....Pages 195-197 Surgical management of pulmonary atresia with confluent pulmonary arteries....Pages 199-200 Pulmonary atresia with non-confluent pulmonary arteries....Pages 201-203 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 The development of palliative operations for the tetralogy of Fallot....Pages 207-209 Tetralogy of Fallot: haemodynamic and angiocardiographic considerations....Pages 211-218 Late results of aortopulmonary shunts....Pages 219-221 Palliative surgery for cyanotic heart disease in infancy....Pages 223-224 Open infundibulectomy in Fallot’s tetralogy and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries....Pages 225-231 Anatomical correction of complete transposition of the great arteries in infancy....Pages 233-242 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 Non-invasive study of left ventricular function....Pages 245-254 Factors affecting left ventricular performance....Pages 255-270 Elective cardiac arrest: historical perspective....Pages 271-275 Front Matter....Pages 243-243 The role of electrolyte and temperature changes in myocardial protection....Pages 277-284 Cold cardioplegia versus continuous coronary perfusion: clinical and cytochemical assessment....Pages 285-298 Low sodium-induced arrest in patients....Pages 299-307 Myocardial preservation during extended periods of ischaemia....Pages 309-318 Intraoperative protection of the heart: topical myocardial hypothermia....Pages 319-323 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 The Mustard operation....Pages 327-331 A current technique for the Mustard operation....Pages 333-338 Long-term results of the Mustard operation....Pages 339-339 Reoperation for complications of the Mustard operation: technical considerations....Pages 341-344 Management of transposition of the great arteries with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction....Pages 345-348 Rastelli operation....Pages 349-350 Atrial inversion for transposition of the great arteries using an intra-atrial dacron baffle: surgical technique and results....Pages 351-358 Transposition of the great arteries....Pages 359-360 Diagnosis of double outlet right ventricle (DORV) by M-mode echocardiography....Pages 361-364 Arrythmias after the Mustard operation: a study of 24-h tape monitoring....Pages 365-367 Front Matter....Pages 369-369 Complicated atrioseptal defects....Pages 371-388 Back Matter....Pages 389-393