Surgical Management of Congestive Heart Failure

James C. Fang, MD, and Gregory S. Couper, MD, have assembled a panel of prominent surgeons and cardiologists to review the latest clinical, scientific, and investigational surgical and mechanical approaches to heart failure in hopes of improving the lives of this challenging group of patients. Topics range from such traditional strategies as high-risk surgical revascularization in advanced coronary artery disease, to more novel approaches such as ventricular reconstruction and mechanical assist devices. Many chapters are contributed by the original pioneers of specific surgical techniques, which provide s invaluable perspective from personal experience.

Michael A. Acker, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Francisco A. Arabia, MD, Department of Surgery, Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ Vinay Badhwar, MD, Section of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Steven F. Bolling, MD, Section of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor John G. Byrne, MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Blase A. Carabello, MD, FACE, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX Jack G. Copeland, MD, Section of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson Gregory A. Couper, MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Teresa De Marco, MD, Division of Cardiology, University of California at San Francisco Paul L. DiGiorgi, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Vincent Dor, MD, Cardio Thoracic Center of Monaco, Monaco James C. Fang, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA James P. Greelish, MD, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Ruediger Hoerbelt, MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Katherine J. Hoercher, RN, George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Cleveland Clinic, OH John Adams Jarcho, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medicine School, Boston; and UpToDate Inc., Wellesley, MA Uday N. Kumar, MD, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Richard Lee, MD, MBA, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO Patrick M. McCarthy, MD, Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL Joren C. Madsen, MD, DPHIL, Division of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation Biology Research Center, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PHD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Mehmet C. Oz, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Bradley J. Phillips, MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Mohammed A. Quader, MD, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Nebraska Heart Institute, Lincoln Harry Rakowski, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Anthony C. Ralph-Edwards, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Leslie A. Saxon, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Leonard Schwartz, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Richard G. Smith, MSEE, CEE, Marshall Foundation Artificial Heart Program, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson Lynne W. Stevenson, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Jeffrey J. Teuteberg, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA E. Douglas Wigle, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada William G. Williams, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada