Surgical Management of Aortic Pathology. Current Fundamentals for the Clinical Management of Aortic Disease

Introduction.- Imaging.- Principals.- Congenital diseases.- Connective tissue pathologies.- Aortic root and aortic valve surgery.- TAVI & new technologies.- Ascending aorta.- Aortic arch.- Descending aorta

This book follows the concept of perceiving the entire aorta as one functional organ assuming that all individual pathologies and local interventional procedures affect the up- and downstream segments with consequences for complications and disease progression. Thus any preventive or surgical strategy must recognize the aortic disease in its entirety.

The book intends to cover the full spectrum of aortic pathologies, mechanisms and functional interplay. The latest available diagnostic tools and options for surgical treatment are presented by the foremost experts in their field in state-of-the-art reviews. The reader is provided with the most current and comprehensive insight into all fundamental and clinical aspects of aortic disease. All chapters are carefully complemented with figures and illustrations.

Olaf Stanger, MD, PhD, MBA, FETCS
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Formerly
Department of Cardiac Surgery
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, UK

John Pepper, MD, FRCS
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Imperial College
Department of Cardiac Surgery
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, UK