The Operated Heart at Autopsy

• Main Author: Houser, Stuart Lair. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Forensic Medicine.; Cardiology.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Forensic Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-808-9

The Operated Heart at Autopsy addresses the need of pathologists in practice and, especially, in training to achieve a new level of competence in dealing, at the time of autopsy, with the anatomic complexity of a heart that has undergone previous surgical treatment, whether that treatment occurred i...

Table of Contents:

• External Evidence of Open Heart Surgery
• Exposing the Cardiopulmonary Block
• The Post-mortem Coronary Injection
• The Cardiac Dissection
• Putting it All Together
• Footprints and Congenital Heart Disease
• A Matter of Mindset
• Glossary.