Title | Cardiac Valve Replacement [electronic resource] : Current Status / edited by Jack M. Matloff |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2601-4 |
Descript | XXXV, 310 p. online resource |
I Complications of Cardiac Valve Replacements and Their Treatment -- 1. Following the patient with prosthetic heart valves -- 2. Thromboembolism after cardiac valve replacement -- 3. Nonprosthetic factors producing thromboembolism in patients with cardiac valve substitutes: their nature and the problems of assessing their role -- 4. Anticoagulant therapy and cardiac valvular surgery: Coumadinยฎ and other alternatives -- 5. Reoperation after cardiac valve surgery: elective, urgent and emergent -- Discussion -- II Cardiac Valve Substitutes: Current Status -- 6. Clinical experience with the caged-ball Starr-Edwardsยฎ prosthesis -- 7. Overview of experience with the Bjรถrk-Shileyยฎ valve -- 8. Experience with standard and supra-annular Carpentier-Edwardsยฎ porcine bioprostheses -- 9. Aortic valve replacement with the Ionescu-Shileyยฎ bovine pericardial valve: an 81-month experience -- Discussion -- III Cardiac Valve Replacement in Special Circumstances -- 10. Annuloaortic ectasia: surgical repair using a composite St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve and Dacronยฎ tube graft -- 11. Valve replacement in the geriatric patient using the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis -- 12. Tricuspid valve replacementโa comparative experience with different valve substitutes -- 13. Double valve replacement -- 14. Cardiac valve replacement in the presence of coronary atherosclerosis -- Discussion -- IV Cardiac Valve Replacement in Pediatric Practice: Experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ Valve -- 15. St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve replacement in infants and children -- 16. Pediatric use of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis -- 17. Mitral valve replacement in a child using the St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve -- 18. Thromboembolism in children with St. Jude Medicalยฎ valves maintained on aspirin and Persantineยฎ -- Discussion -- V Intermediate Follow-up of Patients with St. Jude Medicalยฎ Prostheses: 52 to 72 Months -- 19. A 52-month experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac prosthesis at the Medical University of South Carolina -- 20. A 57-month experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac prosthesis at Hahnemann University Hospital -- 21. Incidence of complication with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis: a 58-month study at Hamot Medical Center -- 22. Mitral valve replacement with St. Jude Medicalยฎ prostheses: a 60-month study of 350 cases at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire -- 23. A 60-month experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -- 24. A 60-month experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis at University Hospital, Brugmann -- 25. A 72-month clinical experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac valve prosthesis at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center -- 26. A 72-month experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac valve prosthesis at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and United Hospitals, St. Paul, Minnesota -- 27. A 72-month clinical experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis at Tucson Medical Center -- Discussion -- VI Clinical Experience with Current Cardiac Valve Substitutes: Comparative Observations -- 28. Late complications in patients with Bjรถrk-Shileyยฎ and St. Jude Medicalยฎ prostheses -- 29. Experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve and the Ionescu-Shileyยฎ bovine pericardial valve at the Texas Heart Institute -- 30. Comparative assessment of single Bjรถrk-Shileyยฎ, Hancockยฎ and St. Jude Medicalยฎ valves at 43 months after operation -- Discussion -- VII Clinical Forum -- 31. Noninvasive assessment of prosthetic heart valve function by continuous-wave doppler ultrasound -- 32. Potential for immobilization of the valve occluder in various valve prostheses -- 33. Escape of a leaflet from a St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis in the mitral position -- 34. Prophylaxis against thromboembolism using aspirin and dipyridamole in patients with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ aortic prosthesis -- Discussion -- VIII Closing Observations -- 35. Summary and concluding remarks -- 36. Summary and concluding observations