New solutions for the heart:an update in advanced perioperative protection

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Podesser Bruno K.; Chambers David J.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Wien London
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-85548-5
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 287 p.): tabs., figs. (some col.)
ISBN: 9783211855485 (electronic bk.)
3211855483 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R540
CLC: R540.4
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The changing population: the surgeon's challenge -- Fundamentals of the past: cardioplegia: the first period revisited -- Sites of injury: myocyte -- Sites of injury: the endothelium -- Intraoperative protection of the myocardium: effects of age and gender -- Protection of the right heart -- Protection of the failing heart -- Protection during heart transplantation -- The endothelium as target for interventions -- Vascular effects of cardioplegic arrest and cardiopulmonary bypass -- Oxygen radical scavengers -- New approaches to cardioplegia: alternatives to hyperkalemia -- Myocardial protection via the coronary venous route -- Donor heart preservation by continuous perfusion -- Visualization of cardioplegia delivery.