Meet the editors

Dr. Firstenberg is a cardiothoracic surgeon and current Director of Research and Special Projects for the William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance. Previously, he was Chief of Cardiothoracic at the Medical Center of Aurora. He attended Case Western Reserve University Medical School, trained in General Surgery at university hospitals in Cleveland and with Cardiothoracic Fellowships at The Ohio State University and The Cleveland

Clinic. He is active in numerous medical societies and a Founding Fellow and President-elect of the American College of Academic International Medicine. He has lectured extensively worldwide and authored over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. He has edited numerous textbooks ranging from Medical Leadership, Patient Safety, and Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Dr. Imran Khan is currently working as a Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar in the Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. Prior to this, he was working as a Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton with Prof Julian Smith and his team. Before coming to Australia, he was working as an Associate Consultant in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon,

India. It is a tertiary care 1200-bed hospital. The department of Cardiac Surgery performs around 3000 cases per year. He completed his training in Cardiac Vascular & Thoracic Surgery (M.Ch.) from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical & Research (P.GI.M.E.R.), Chandigarh, India. His research project was on the "Relation of histology and ultra-structure of left atrium in Mitral valve disease with Atrial Fibrillation: Correlation with left atrium size and cardioversion". He with Dr. Naresh Trehan (Chief Cardiac Surgeon) at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon. There he was exposed to almost the entire spectrum of adult cardiac surgery. Apart from taking active participation in the operating room, he was actively involved in pre-operative and post-operative care of patients. I was also the Principal Investigator of the research project 'Study to determine the index of completeness of revascularization and incidence of stroke in off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting'. Recently, he presented papers in EACTS, AATS, and IACTS conferences. His 2 chapters on 'Current and future management strategies of type A Aortic dissection' and 'Minimally Invasive Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy Aortic Valve Replacement' have been published in cardiac surgery books in the last 2 years. His application for specialist assessment with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons has been found to be comparable, and he will be taking further training before sitting for his FRACS exam. He has been exposed to a good number of elective and emergent adult cardiac and aortic cases including redo cases back in India and in Australia. Now, he has a keen interest to widen his skill-set by working in a unit specializing in heart and lung transplant and heart failure management strategies and minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Aortic Valve Disease **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 61**

**Chapter 5 81**

Fontan Therapies **103**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 127**

Physiopathological Approach of the Fontan Patient for Noncardiac Surgery

Current and Future Management Strategies of Type A Aortic Dissection *by Imran Khan, Prashant Joshi, Adrian W. Pick and Julian A. Smith*

Introductory Chapter: The Evolution of Complex Valve

Clinical Applications of Strain Imaging in Aortic Valve Disease

Transcatheter Treatment of Aortic Stenosis and Regurgitation

*by Yamile Muñoz, María José Sáenz and Renzo Cifuentes*

Fontan Operation: A Comprehensive Review

Pathology - The Surgeon's Perspective *by Michael S. Firstenberg and Jennifer Hanna*

Aortic Valve Disease: State of the Art

*by Ernesto E. Salcedo and Edward A. Gill*

*by Zhang Haibo and Meng Xu*

for the Anesthesiologist

*by P. Syamasundar Rao*

**Section 2**

*by Adam El Gamel*
