Fig. 11.1 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation . This is a portable bedside cardiopulmonary bypass circuit, consisting of a pump head and oxygenator, with standard pressure and bubble monitoring alarms. The system…
Keyword Number of patent applications 2015 2008 2004 Cardiac 93,942 46,946 18,920 Cardiac surgery 5,404 2331 1015 Cardiology 14,798 3961 1480 Cardiac electrophysiology 869 213 79 Cardiovascular stents 313 137…
Fig. 43.1 Timeline of medical device development ©2013 Heart Valves: From Design to Clinical Implantation, Clinical trial requirements for cardiac valves, Iaizzo JC, Lovas ATF. With kind permission of Springer…
Fig. 2.1 Illustration showing the anatomic position. Regardless of the position of the body or organ upon examination, the anatomy of an organ or the whole should be described as…
Fig. 9.1 Posterior view of the pericardial sac, with the anterior surface and heart cut away. One can see that the great vessels of the heart penetrate through the pericardium,…
3. Thomson JA, Itskovitz-Eldor J, Shapiro SS et al (1998) Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science 282:1145–1147 4. Nussbaum J, Minami E, Laflamme MA et al (2007)…
Fig. 3.1 The four major contributors to heart development illustrated in the chick model system: first heart field, second heart field, cardiac neural crest, and the proepicardial organ. (A) Day…
, Zivile Valuckiene and Petros Nihoyannopoulos (1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Introduction Echocardiography is a widely used non-invasive imaging modality which provides…
and K. M. John Chan (1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Introduction In Western developed countries, mitral valve surgery usually involves degenerative or Barlow’s…
and K. M. John Chan (1) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Introduction Surgery on the tricuspid valve generally involves functional tricuspid regurgitation secondary to…
