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Front Lines of Thoracic Surgery Edited by Stefano Nazari

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Stefano Nazari
Stefano Nazari

Fondazione Alexis Carrel

Published03 February 2012

Doi10.5772/2401

ISBN978-953-307-915-8

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6761-7

Copyright year2012

Number of pages414

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Mitral Valve Subvalvular Apparatus Repair with Artificial Neochords Application

By Sergey Y. Boldyrev, Kirill O. Barbukhatty, Olga A. Rossokha and Vladimir A. Porhanov

9,681
2. Post Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect

By Michael S. Firstenberg and Jason Rousseau

5,651
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3. Current Trend of Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

By Hitoshi Hirose

2,931
4. Psychiatric Factors Which Impact Coronary Heart Disease and Influence Outcomes Post-Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

By James J. Mahoney, III, Emily A. Voelkel, Jenny A. Bannister, Raja R. Gopaldas and Tam K. Dao

2,310
5. Surgical Ventricular Restoration for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy with Functional Mitral Regurgitation

By Masanori Hirota, Shintaro Katahira, Joji Hoshino, Yasuhisa Fukada, Taichi Kondo, Takayuki Gyoten, Yuichi Notomi and Tadashi Isomura

2,861
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6. Morphological Predictors and Molecular Markers of Progressing Postoperative Remodeling of Left Ventricle in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

By Vladimir Shipulin, Vitaly Kazakov, Alexander Lezhnev, Boris Kozlov, Vadim Babokin, Sergey Gutor and Irina Suhodolo

2,419
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7. Miniaturized Extracorporeal Circulation

By Francesco Formica and Giovanni Paolini

3,932
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8. Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest to Remove Right Atrial Thrombi Due to Abdominal Malignancies

By Pier Luigi Stefano, Stefano Romagnoli, Donata Villari and Giacomo Batignani

2,733
9. Restoration of Transposed Great Arteries With or Without Subpulmonary Obstruction to Nature

By Ing-Sh Chiu and Chi-Ren Hung

3,942
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10. Gene Expression Profiling - A New Approach in the Study of Congenital Heart Disease

By Mohamed T. Ghorbel, Gianni D. Angelini and Massimo Caputo

2,590
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11. B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in Neonates, Infants and Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

By Peter E. Oishi, Aida Field-Ridley, Sanjeev A. Datar and Jeffrey R. Fineman

5,550
12. Cerbral Protection Strategies for

By Bradley G. Leshnower and Edward P. Chen

2,832
13. Recent Advances in the Management of Acute Aortic Syndrome

By Laszlo Göbölös, Maik Foltan, Peter Ugocsai, Andrea Thrum, Alois Philipp, Steven A. Livesey, Geoffrey M. Tsang and Sunil K. Ohri

2,923
14. Neurologic Injury Following Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest

By Elizabeth O. Johnson, Antonia Charchanti, Maria Piagkou, Theodore Xanthos and Theodore Troupis

3,435
15. New Approaches for Treatment and Prevention of Aortic Aneurysms

By Stefano Nazari

2,510
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16. Lung Transplantation

By Wickii T. Vigneswaran

2,587
17. Systematic Review of the Literature: Comparison of Open and Minimal Access Surgery (Thoracoscopic Repair) of Esophageal Atresia with Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula (EA-TEF)

By M. W. N. Oomen

2,291
18. Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury: Mechanisms and Future Therapeutic Interventions

By Maria A. Hegeman, Marcus J. Schultz, Adrianus J. van Vught and Cobi J. Heijnen

2,802
19. Optimizing Perioperative Ventilation Support with Adequate Settings of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure

By Zhanqi Zhao, Claudius Stahl, Ullrich Müller-Lisse, Inéz Frerichs and Knut Möller

2,839
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20. Perioperative Pulmonary Functional Assessment

By Felipe Villar Álvarez, Germán Peces-Barba Romero and Miguel Ángel Palomero Rodríguez

3,199
21. Post Thoracotomy Pain Syndrome

By F. Della Corte, C. Mendola, A. Messina and G. Cammarota

5,262
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