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This book is a detailed practical guide to the use of ventricular assist devices and total artificial hearts to provide mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in patients with end-stage heart failure. It explains why MCS may be indicated, which patients require MCS, when and how to implant ventricular assist devices or a total artificial heart, and how to avoid potential complications of MCS. Management throughout the period of care is described, from preimplantation to follow-up, and both typical and atypical cases are discussed. The text features numerous helpful tips and tricks relating to surgical and nonsurgical management and is supported by a wealth of high-quality illustrations that document the preoperative evaluation and implantation techniques. Heart transplantation remains the gold standard for the treatment of patients suffering from end-stage heart failure, but the shortage of donors has led to an increase in the use of MCS. This book will assist all physicians, and especially cardiologists and anesthesiologists, who are involved in the care of these patients.

Medicine. --- Anesthesiology. --- Critical care medicine. --- Cardiology. --- Cardiac surgery. --- Thoracic surgery. --- Surgical transplantation. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Cardiac Surgery. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Transplant Surgery. --- Thoracic Surgery. --- Heart --- Transplantation of organs, tissu. --- Surgery. --- Thoracic surgery --- Thoracic surgeons --- Internal medicine --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Anaesthesiology --- Surgery --- Cardiac surgery --- Open-heart surgery --- Diseases --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Tissues --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery --- Transplants, Organ --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Transplantation --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Intensive Care Medicine. --- Transplantation. --- Surgery, Primitive