A history of cardiac surgery : an adventurous voyage from antiquity to the artificial heart / by Ugo Filippo Tesler.

  • Tesler, Ugo Felipo
Date:
2020
  • Books

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Description

"The beginning of cardiac surgery is generally considered to be the successful repair of a wound of the heard that took place on the 7th of September 1896 in Frankfurt am main. This operation put and end to widespread belief that nature had set the heart beyond the limits of surgery. The successive development of heart surgery moved together with other advances that were rapidly taking place in various fields of medicine and surgery and which, already in the first half of the 20th century, had allowed surgical pioneers to successfully correct a number of congenital and acquired heart diseases by adopting closed-heart techniques … This book narrates these fascinating and sometimes dramatic events, as well as detailing some of the greatest pioneers of cardiac surgery."--From the cover.

Publication/Creation

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Physical description

xv, 526 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Note and acknowledgements -- Forewords -- Chapter one. The bases, the beginnings, and the evolutions of cardiac Surgery -- Chapter Two. The Life of Alexis carrel -- Chapter Three. The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis -- Chapter Four. Open-heart surgery -- Chapter Five. The pacemaker -- Chapter Six. The surgical repair of the cardiac valves -- Chapter Seven. The surgical treatment of coronary artery disease -- Chapter Eight. The history of vascular surgery -- Chapter Nine. The history of heart transplantation -- Chapter Ten. The history of assisted circulation and the artificial heart --Charter Eleven. The future of cardiac surgery -- Bibliography -- Index.

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    History of Medicine
    OO.V
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ISBN

  • 9781527542488
  • 1527542483