**Meet the editor**

Stefano Nazari was born in Venice on Jan 2, 1949. His Classic Education was in Como (Liceo A. Volta 1968) and his Medical Education at Pavia University (MD 1974, residency in Surgery 1980) and at Turin University (residency in General Thoracic Surgery 1983). His clinical activity was nearly entirely dedicated to Thoracic Surgery at the Department of Surgery of IRCCS San

Matteo Pavia Hospital until 2005 and in private structures thereafter. He was also deeply involved in experimental surgery research at the research unit lab of the Deptartment of Surgery at Pavia University, focused in particular on: nutritional status evaluation, one lung anesthesia (new endobronchial tube), lung transplant (funded by Italian Ministry of Health: bronchial art. revascularization, extracorporeal lung preservation, vascular stapler for pulmonary artery anastomosis), lung cancer surgery (SVCava and Pancoast t. resections, bronchoplastic procedures), and aortic surgery (endovascular "net" prosthesis, expandable anastomotic devices). He had stages at the Division of Organ Transplantation Univ. of Cincinnati (1973), Cardiothoracic Division of Hannover University (1987), Thoracic Surgery Div. Toronto GH (1988) and Cardiovascular Surgery at H. Broussais, Paris (1996/7). In 1997 he founded the Fondazione Alexis Carrel (not for profit, act 1532/906, Pavia) for thoracic and cardiovascular research.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Adult Cardiac Surgery 1** 

**Neochords Application 3** 

Chapter 1 **Mitral Valve Subvalvular Apparatus Repair with Artificial** 

Chapter 2 **Post Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect 29**  Michael S. Firstenberg and Jason Rousseau

Chapter 4 **Psychiatric Factors Which Impact Coronary Heart Disease and Influence Outcomes Post-Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery 61** 

> Masanori Hirota, Shintaro Katahira, Joji Hoshino, Yasuhisa Fukada, Taichi Kondo, Takayuki Gyoten,

**Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy 107**  Vladimir Shipulin, Vitaly Kazakov, Alexander Lezhnev,

Chapter 6 **Morphological Predictors and Molecular Markers of** 

James J. Mahoney, III, Emily A. Voelkel, Jenny A. Bannister,

**Cardiomyopathy with Functional Mitral Regurgitation 83** 

**Progressing Postoperative Remodeling of Left Ventricle in** 

Boris Kozlov, Vadim Babokin, Sergey Gutor and Irina Suhodolo

Sergey Y. Boldyrev, Kirill O. Barbukhatty, Olga A. Rossokha and Vladimir A. Porhanov

Chapter 3 **Current Trend of Off-Pump Coronary Artery** 

Raja R. Gopaldas and Tam K. Dao

Chapter 5 **Surgical Ventricular Restoration for Ischemic** 

Yuichi Notomi and Tadashi Isomura

Chapter 7 **Miniaturized Extracorporeal Circulation 135**  Francesco Formica and Giovanni Paolini

**Bypass Grafting 47** 

Hitoshi Hirose
