MULTIMEDIA MANUAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY - Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief: Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland

Section Editors Jean E. Bachet, Paris, France (Thoracic vascular disease) Stefano Benussi, Milan, Italy (Rhythm disturbances) Gunther Laufer, Innsbruck, Austria (Heart transplantation and assisted circulation) Antoon E.M.R. Lerut, Leuven, Belgium (Esophageal disease) Ralph Schmid, Bern, Switzerland (Chest and lung disease) Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland (Acquired cardiac disease) Pascal R. Vouhé, Paris, France (Congenital heart disease) Chapter Editors Acquired cardiac disease Ottavio R. Alfieri, Milan, Italy (Mitral valve repair) Gianni D. Angelini, Bristol, UK (Mechanical complications of ischemic heart disease) Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Freiburg, Germany (Myocardial protection) Antonio Maria Calafiore, Turin, Italy (Revascularization of ischemic myocardium) Tirone E. David, Toronto, ON, Canada (Aortic valve repair) Volkmar Falk, Leipzig, Germany (Innovation - Cardiac) Francesco Maisano, Milan, Italy (Innovation - Valvular) Patrick M. McCarthy, Chicago, IL, USA (Tricuspid valve) Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland (Incisions) Ludwig K. von Segesser, Lausanne, Switzerland (Cardiopulmonary bypass and Cannulation) David J. Wheatley, Glasgow, UK (Mitral valve replacement)

Chest and lung disease Federico Rea, Padua, Italy (Robotic thoracic surgery) Ralph Schmid, Bern, Switzerland (Surgery of the mediastinum, Surgery for infectious lung disease, Surgery of the chest wall) Federico Venuta, Rome, Italy (Innovation - Pulmonary) Thoracic vascular disease Hani Shennib, Montreal, QUE, Canada (Innovation - Thoracic aorta) Heart transplantation and assist device Pascal Vouhé, Paris, France (Orthotopic heart transplantation for congenital anomalies) Georg Maximillian Wieselthaler, Vienna, Austria (Mechanical circulatory support by paracorporeal pulsatile LVAD/BVAD) Specialist Editors Robert Anderson, London, UK (Anatomy) Gaetano Thiene, Padua, Italy (Pathology) Managing Editor: Ian R. Beecroft, Martigny, Switzerland Editorial Manager: Judy Gaillard, Martigny, Switzerland

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