Main description:

The treatment of end-stage heart failure with advanced surgical therapies has evolved significantly over the last several years and is a dynamic subspecialty within cardiac surgery. Surgical Treatment for Advanced Heart Failure describes the surgical management of advanced heart failure, including coronary artery revascularization, mitral valve repair, aortic valve replacement, ventricular remodeling, cardiac resynchronization, mechanical circulatory support with short-term devices for acute stabilization, long-term mechanical support as a bridge to transplant and for destination therapy, left ventricular assist devices, complete cardiac replacement with the total artificial heart, and cardiac transplantation. With contributions from a distinguished group of heart failure cardiologists and transplant surgeons, it is an authoritative resource for cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, and surgeons.

Contents:

1. Principles of Heart Failure

Benjamin Hirsh and Ulrich P. Jorde

2. Algorithm for Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure

Richard K. Cheng, Mrudula R. Allareddy, Eugene DePasquale, Farhana Latif, Khurram Shahzad, and Mario C. Deng

3. Surgical Coronary Artery Revascularization in Patients with Advanced Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Benjamin C. Sun

4. Mitral Valve Repair for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation with Advanced Cardiomyopathy

Leora B. Balsam, Eugene A. Grossi, and Aubrey Galloway

5. Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Stenosis or Aortic Insufficiency with Advanced Left Ventricular Dysfunction

S. Chris Malaisrie and Patrick M. McCarthy

6. Ventricular Remodeling for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Ventricular Asynergy Post Myocardial Infarction

John V. Conte

7. Cardiac Resynchronization in Advanced Heart Failure: Bi-ventricular Pacing

William T. Abraham and Paul Chacko

8. Triage VADs: TandemHeart, Impella, and CentriMag

Igor D. Gregoric

9. Cardiac Transplantation

Lucian Lozonschi, Carter T. Smith, and Niloo M. Edwards

10. Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Transplantation

Jeffrey A. Morgan and Yoshifumi Naka

11. Ventricular Assist Devices for Destination Therapy

Sanjeev Aggarwal and Mark S. Slaughter

12. Newer-Generation Rotary Blood Pumps

Steven M. Parnis, Mehmet Hakan Akay, and O. Howard Frazier

13. Total Artificial Heart

Hannah Copeland, Jack G. Copeland, and Richard G. Smith

14. Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation: Predictors, Management, and Device Utilization

Abeel A. Mangi

15. Ventricular Assist Devices and Transplantation for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

Jonathan M. Chen and Robert A. Sorabella