Title | Surgical Remodeling in Heart Failure [electronic resource] : Alternative to Transplantation / edited by W. Brett, A. Todorov, M. Pfisterer, Hans-Reinhard Zerkowski |
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Imprint | Heidelberg : Steinkopff : Imprint: Steinkopff, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57705-5 |
Descript | VIII, 134 p. 69 illus. online resource |
The heart failure syndrome: new insights โ from receptors -- to molecular biology -- End stage heart failure โ options for medical treatment and beyond. -- Heart transplantation for cardiomyopathy โ therapeutic gold standard? -- Cardiac assistance from skeletal muscle: achieving a variable and appropriately transformed graft -- Cardiomyoplasty in chronic heart failure: the Paris Experience -- Biomechanical hearts in aorta-descendens position โ operative procedure and volumetry in adult goats -- Geometrical considerations in (reverse) remodeling -- Mitral valve repair for surgical remodeling -- Reduction ventriculoplasty -- Artificial heart: todayโs facts and future horizons -- Apoptosis in heart failure โ reversible?