TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 5. Cardiovascular Pathology A1 - Schoen, Frederick J. A1 - Padera, Robert F. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. PY - 2012 T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e AB - In the past several decades, cardiovascular pathology has been launched into the forefront of high-quality patient care as a direct result of the virtual explosion in the number and scope of cardiovascular surgical and interventional diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and devices. Cardiovascular pathology informs the practice of cardiovascular surgery and medicine through defining the pathologic anatomy in individual patients and patient cohorts, and in developing and testing procedures and prosthetic devices that facilitate evidence-based choices among surgical or catheter-based interventional options and optimize short- and long-term patient management. Importantly, beyond implicit clinical benefit for individual patients, the discipline of cardiovascular pathology is a cornerstone of modern cardiovascular research and the preclinical development and clinical implementation of innovative drugs, devices, and other therapeutic options. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55911230 ER -