DESCRIPTION:
The origins of cardiac surgery are dramatic. It has evolved through the efforts of visionaries who were often criticized and at times dismissed as mad, as well as the great number of desperate patients who accepted to subject themselves to new and untried procedures in the hope of cheating death. While often disregarded, the history of scientific inquiry has much to teach us, and that of cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology is no exception.
To discuss the dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures, an international team of cardiac surgeons, interventional cardiologists, anesthesiologists, perfusionists, and biomedical engineers from 22 centers and six countries have been brought together. Each chapter of this book offers a detailed overview of previous investigative efforts and an understanding of the thinking and mentality behind them. Nevertheless, chapters on the recent history of mini-invasive and sutureless valve surgery have also been included, to further assist the reader in transitioning from past to present and on into the future. The attention devoted to research aspects, the comprehensiveness of the historical overview, and the pedagogic and anecdotal nature of the contents make this text unique in the cardiac field and of utmost interest to researchers, cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, residents, medical historians, and biomedical engineers.
CONTENTS:
Part I Research on Cardiac Surgery and Right Cardiac Catheterization Before the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
1. The Discovery of Blood Circulation
2. The History of Surgical Research
3. The Ignored Birth of Cardiac Surgery: The History of the Surgical Treatment of Heart Wounds and Pericardial Effusions
4. The History of Pulmonary Embolectomy Before the Advent of CPB
5. Right Cardiac Catheterization Before the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
6. The History of Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Surgery Before the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
7. Surgery of the Aortic Valve Before the Era of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
8. The History of Myocardial Revascularization Before the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
9. The History of Experimental Heterotopic and Orthotopic Heart Transplantation Before Cardiopulmonary Bypass
10. The History of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Before the Introduction of Extracorporeal Circulation
Part II Research on the Cardiopulmonary Bypass Machine
11. On the Path to Cardiopulmonary Bypass: From Le Gallois"" Experiments to Brukhonenko""s Machine
12. Research on Cardiopulmonary Bypass in North America
13. From Research on Hibernation and Hypothermia to Recent Advances in Cardiopulmonary Bypass
14. Cardiac Anaesthesia
Part III Research on Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery After the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
15. The History of Research on Coronary Angiography and Coronary Angioplasty
16. Right Cardiac Catheterization After the Advent of CPB
17. The History of Research on Coronary Stenting
18. The History of Percutaneous Valvuloplasty
19. Percutaneous Closure of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects
20. Evolution of Homografts and Prosthetic Heart Valves
21. The History of Research on Mitral, Tricuspid, and Aortic Valve Repair After the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
22. History of Research on Myocardial Protection
23. Supra-Diaphragmatic Aortic Surgery: Evolution of Material, Techniques and Brain Protection
24. Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
25. Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
26. The History of Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators
27. The History of Surgery for Ischemic Heart Disease and Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction After the Advent of CPB
28. Progress and Milestones in the Treatment of Deep Sternal Wound Infections
29. Engineering for IABP and ECMO
30. The History of Research on Ventricular Assist Devices and Total Artificial Heart
31. The History of Research on Adult and Paediatric Heart Transplantation
32. The History of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery After the Advent of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
33. Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery
34. The History of Research on Percutaneous, Transapical, and Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement
