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Cardiac transplantation has long been the gold standard for the treatment of end-stage heart disease (1). After the first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967, the initial flurry of activity surrounding heart transplantation quickly diminished because of poor results, primarily stemming from an inability to control cardiac allograft rejection without subjecting patients to the risk of overwhelming...
Approximately 5 million Americans have congestive heart failure (CHF), and every year about 50,000 new cases are diagnosed. Advances in medical therapy, biventricular pacing, defibrillator implantation, and the ability to successfully perform surgery in high-risk patients have revolutionized the management of patients with CHF and greatly delayed CHF progression to end stage. Once patients develop...
This chapter was designed to provide the reader with a brief overview of the current surgical treatment options for heart valve disease. Major topics of discussion are: (1) development of prosthetic valve replacements; (2) current issues with valve replacement; (3) major valvular diseases that affect humans in the Western world; and (4) recent advances in therapeutic options for valvular diseases.
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