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A history of cardiac surgery : an adventurous voyage from antiquity to the artificial heart / Ugo Filippo Tesler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tesler, Ugo Filippo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heart--Surgery--History.
- Heart.
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures--history.
- Heart--Surgery.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures--history.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 526 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The bases, the beginnings and the evolution of Cardiac Surgery p. 1
- Chapter 2 The life of Alexis Carrel p. 40
- Chapter 3 The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis p. 59
- Chapter 4 Open-heart surgery p. 91
- Chapter 5 The pacemaker p. 149
- Chapter 6 The surgical repair of the cardiac valves p. 158
- Chapter 7 The surgical treatment of coronary artery disease p. 221
- Chapter 8 The history of vascular surgery p. 264
- Chapter 9 The history of heart transplantation p. 345
- Chapter 10 The history of assisted circulation and of the artificial heart p. 404
- Chapter 11 The future of cardiac surgery p. 457.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781527542488
- 1527542483
- OCLC:
- 1125992156
- Publisher Number:
- 99983730909
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