| Summary: | Scholarly, comprehensive book focuses on the practice of cardiac surgery in the adult patient featuring over 1000 illustration depicting winning surgical technique. In addition, indications, pathophysiology, surgical decision making, complications, and results of surgical treatment are examined in depth. The descriptions of operative techniques are clear and concise and are accompanied by useful diagrams. Alternative techniques are also fully described, as in the chapters on aneurysms of the aortic arch and repair of the mitral valve.
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