Advances in Cardiac and Aortic Surgery, an Issue of Surgical Clinics

Covers such topics as: Cardiac Screening Prior to Non-Cardiac Surgery; Non-Invasive Imaging of the Heart and Coronary Arteries; Cardiopulmonary Bypass/ECMO/Left Heart Bypass - Indications, Techniques and Complications; On Pump versus Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting; and, Congenital Heart Surgery in the Adult.

Proposed topics for this issue include: Cardiac Screening Prior to Non-Cardiac Surgery; Non-Invasive Imaging of the Heart and Coronary Arteries; Cardiopulmonary Bypass/ECMO/Left Heart Bypass - Indications, Techniques and Complications; On Pump versus Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting; Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation; Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery; Valve Sparing Aortic Root Operations; Great Vessel, Aortic and Cardiac Trauma; Indications for the Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms; Stent Grafts for Thoracic Aortic Pathology; Approach to the Treatment of Aortic Dissections; Indications and Treatment of Great Vessel Occlusive Disease; Surgical Therapy for the Failing Heart (DOR/VAD/Transplantation); Current Status of Percutaneous Valve Therapy; and, Congenital Heart Surgery in the Adult.