Mitral valve diseases. Function, diagnosis, treatment

The book is devoted to one of the most complex and high-tech problems of cardiac surgery - the Surgery of the Mitral Valve. The issues of the functional and surgical anatomy of the mitral valve, the diagnosis of mitral vice and its complications are described in detail. Special attention is paid to the reconstructive surgery and prosthetics of the mitral valve, as well as the choice of a prosthesis. Separate heads of books represent the experience of American cardiac surgery are devoted to heart transplantation with this pathology, traumatic damage and endocarditis of the mitral valve.
Of the serious and significant additions to the second edition, it should be noted the inclusion of the chapter on modern drug therapy in mitral heart defects, new data on such a rapidly developing direction, as the study of the role of genetic factors in the formation of the pathology of the mitral valve, as well as the principal and necessary surgeons analysis Functions and roles of atria in ensuring the effective pumping function of the heart. These additions indicate the development of the problem and the continued profound scientific analysis of the pathology of the mitral valve.
The publication is intended for surgeons, cardiologists, students of medical universities, graduate students, listeners of the postgraduate education system.
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