Surgical options in heart failure
By: guest editors, Stephen Westaby, Jagat Narula.
Contributors: Westaby, Stephen.; Narula, Jagat.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 84, no. 1
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Congestive heart failure -- surgery; Heart -- Surgery; Heart -- Transplantation
Notes: "February 2004."

Series title on spine: Surgical clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Management of heart failure: crossing boundary over to the surgical country / G. William Dec; title: Surgical remodeling of left ventricle / Vincent Dor; title: The potential role of ventricular compressive therapy / Robert C. Gorman, Benjamin M. Jackson, and Joseph H. Gorman III; title: Hemodynamics of chronic nonpulsatile flow: implications for LVAD development / Satoshi Saito, Tomohiro Nishinaka, and Stephen Westaby; title: Ventricular assistance to bridge to transplantation / Aftab R. Kherani and Mehmet C. Oz; title: Ventricular assist devices as destination therapy / Stephen Westaby; title: Myoblast transfer in heart failure / Philippe Menasché; title: Gene transfer in cardiac myocytes / Babar B. Chaudhri ... [et al.]; title: Myocyte growth in the failing heart / Jan Kajstura ... [et al.]; title: Coronary revascularization in ischemic cardiomyopathy / Stephen Westaby; title: Short- and long-term mechanical ventricular assistance towards myocardial recovery / John W.C. Entwistle III; title: Molecular biology of myocardial recovery / Jianyi Zhang and Jagat Narula; title: Orthotopic heart transplantation: highlights and limitations / Mario C. Deng; title: Selection of patients and techniques of heart transplantation / James K. Kirklin ... [et al.]; title: Feasibility of xeno-transplantation / Ruediger Hoerbelt and Joren C. Madsen; title: Biventricular mechanical replacement / Louis Samuels; title: Reading tarot cards / L. Henry Edmunds Jr.