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Author:   Srilakshmi Adhyapak ,  Srilakshmi M. Adhyapak
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   2012
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9781447128601

ISBN 10:   1447128605
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   07 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.Foreword.- 2.Preface.-3.Architecture of the normal heart.- 4.The normal mechanisms of cardiac contraction and relaxation.- 5.Alterations in cardiac geometry with heart failure.- 6.Perturbations in contraction and relaxation with heart failure.- 7.Hemodynamics in ischemic cardiomyopathy.- 8.History of surgical ventricular restoration.- 9.Evolution of surgical ventricular restoration to endoventricular linear patch plasty(EVLPP).- 10.Validation of near physiological restoration of left ventricular geometry by EVLPP.- 11.Physiological considerations in the relationships of left ventricular volumes.- 12.Evidence of an extension of Frank Starling mechanism in the failing heart.- 13.Concomitant procedures with surgical ventricular restoration: Indications and techniques.

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V. Rao Parachuri FRCS (CTh) has trained at Hammersmith and Harefield Hospitals, UK and worked as fellow at St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. His field of interest is in the surgical management of heart failure with special interest in surgical ventricular restoration. He has developed the linear endoventricular patch plasty procedure which is a modification of the endoventricular patch plasty techniques described by others. He has performed over 800 surgical ventricular restoration procedures. His other interests include mitral and aortic valve repairs and surgical pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation. He is Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. Srilakshmi M. Adhyapak DNB is a fellow in Cardiology from Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences, and is presently Assistant Professor of Cardiology at St. John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India. Her interests are in the pathophysiology of heart failure.

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