Surgical remodeling in heart failure : alternative to transplantation /
Despite all efforts and success in medical treatment, the incidence of (end-stage) chronic heart failure is increasing. Cardiac transplantation remains the only definite option; however, due to the shortage of donor organs, very few people benefit. Therefore, surgery of end-stage heart failure using...
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| Language: | English |
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Darmstadt :
Steinkopff,
[2000]
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| Series: | Basel Heart Workshop series.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The heart failure syndrome: new insights
- from receptors to molecular biology
- Ch. 2. End stage heart failure
- options for medical treatment and beyond
- Ch. 3. Heart transplantation for cardiomyopathy
- therapeutic gold standard?
- Ch. 4. Cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle: achieving a variable and appropriately transformed graft
- Ch. 5. Cardiomyoplasty in chronic heart failure: the Paris experience
- Ch. 6. Biomechanical hearts in aorta-descendens position
- operative procedure and volumetry in adult goats
- Ch. 7. Geometrical considerations in (reverse) remodeling
- Ch. 8. Mitral valve repair for surgical remodeling
- Ch. 9. Reduction ventriculoplasty
- Ch. 10. Artificial heart: today's facts and future horizons
- Ch. 11. Apoptosis in heart failure
- reversible?