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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019737003321

Titolo

Cardiac surgery in chronic renal failure / / edited by Mark S. Slaughter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Futura, 2007

ISBN

9786611320416

9781281320414

1281320412

9780470762585

0470762586

9780470994931

0470994932

9780470994924

0470994924

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SlaughterMark S

Disciplina

617.4/12

Soggetti

Heart - Surgery - Complications

Heart - Diseases - Complications

Chronic renal failure - Complications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dialysis and the chronic renal failure patient / Ejikeme O. Obasi ... [et al.] -- Percutaneous coronary revascularization in patients with end-stage renal disease / Charles A. Herzog, Khalid Ashai -- Cardiopulmonary bypass in patients with chronic renal failure: techniques and management / Michael A. Sobieski II, Mark S. Slaughter -- Coronary artery bypass grafting in dialysis-dependent renal failure patients / Matthew Forrester, William Cohn -- Surgical treatment of valvular heart disease in end-stage renal failure / Mark S. Slaughter -- Surgical evaluation and treatment of uremic pericarditis / Rosemary F. Kelly, Sara Shumway.

Sommario/riassunto

"The work focuses on a phenomenon that is occurring with increasing frequency in the practice of cardiac surgery, namely the need to address cardiac surgical issues in patients with end-stage renal disease



(ESRD). . . . this book will serve to stimulate trials of competing and complementary therapies so that the outcomes for these unfortunate patients can be improved."-- from the Foreword by R. Morton Boltman, III, MDProfessor of Surgery, Harvard Medical SchoolChief, Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Cardiovascular disease remains the most co