Part One: Introductory. The assessment of cardiac disease; Surgical access to the heart and great vessels; Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery; Cardiopulmonary bypass and circulatory support; Myocardial protection for cardiac surgery; Postoperative care; Cardiac pacemaker implantation. Part Two: Paediatric cardiac surgery. The anatomy of congenital heart disease; Shunt procedures; Pulmonary artery banding; Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection:surgical anatomy; Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage:surgical repair; Atrial septal defect: surgical anatomy; Atrial septal defect; Atrioventricular septal defect: surgical anatomy; Atrioventricular septal defect; Double inlet ventricle; Tricuspid atresia: surgical anatomy; The Fontan operation; Ebstein's anomaly: surgical anatomy; Ebstein's anomaly: surgical treatment; Ventricular septal defect: surgical anatomy; Ventricular septal defect; Tetralogy of Fallot: surgical anatomy; Tetralogy of Fallot: surgical treatment; Pulmonary atresia: surgical anatomy; Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect; Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction with intact ventricular septum; Congenital aortic stenosis; Rashkind procedures; Complete trasposition: surgical anatomy; Mustard's operation for transposition of the great arteries; The Senning operation for trasposition of the great arteries; Transposition of the great arteries with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; Anatomical correction of transposition of the great arteries; Persistent truncus alteriosus:surgical anatomy; Persistent truncus arteriosus; Persistent ductus arteriosus: surgical anatomy; Surgery of persistent ductus arteriosus; Coarctation of the aorta: surgical anatomy; Repair of coarctation of the aorta; Congenital abnormalities of the aortic arch. Part Three: Adult cardiac surgery.Pericardiectomy and pericardiotomy; Closed mitral commissurotomy; Mitral valve reconstructive surgery; Valve prostheses; Mitral valve replacement; Hypertrophic subaortic stenosis; Surgical treatment of aortic valve disease; Aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass grafting; Internal mammary artery to coronary artery bypass grafting; Surgery for the complications of myocardial infarction; Trauma to the heart and great vessels; Surgical treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms; Surgical treatment of aortic dissections; Surgical treatment of aneurysms and dissections involving the transverse aortic arch; Cardiac tumours; Surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias; Transplantation; Reoperation; Index.
