Advanced Therapy in Cardiac Surgery

1. Use of Heparin-Bonded Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuits with Alternatives to Standard Anticoagulants 2. Blood Conservation for Open Heart Surgery 3. Cardiac Surgery in Patients with HIV Disease 4. Cardiac Surgery during Pregnancy 5. Myocardial Protection with Integrated Blood Cardioplegia 6. Prevention of Neurologic Injury during Open Heart Surgery 7. Alternative Arterial Conduits for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft 8. Complete Arterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Disease 9. Coronary Reoperations 10. Surgery for Complications of Myocardial Infarction 11. Lateral Thoracotomy Incision in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 12. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting withoutCardiopulmonary Bypass 13. Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 14. Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization 15. Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Port-Access Method 16. Minimally Invasive Cardiac Valve Surgery 17. Videoscopy for Cardiac Valve Surgery 18. Aortic Valve Repair and Reconstruction 19. Aortic Valve Replacement with the Cryopreserved Aortic Valve Homograft 20. Pulmonary Autograft 21. Mitral Valve Homograft for Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Replacement 22. Update on Mechanical and Tissue Valves 23. Stentless Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Replacement 24. Mitral Valve Repair: Current Techniques and Indications 25. Mitral Valve Replacement 26. Optimal Treatment of Native and Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis 27. Maze Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation 28. Principles of Cerebral Protection during Operations on the Thoracic Aorta 29. Surgical Management of Aortic and Cardiac Manifestations of Marfan Syndrome 30. Valve-Sparing Operations for Aortic Annuloectasia 31. One-Stage Resection of the Thoracic Aorta 32. Aortic Dissections 33. New Methods of Spinal Cord Protection during Operations on the Thoracic Aorta 3