RT Book, Section
A1 Schoen, Frederick J.
A1 Padera, Robert F.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
SR Print(0)
ID 55911230
T1 Chapter 5. Cardiovascular Pathology
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 4e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163310-9
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55911230
RD 2024/04/24
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.