Wilcox's Surgical Anatomy of the Heart

Robert H. Anderson is Visiting Professorial Fellow at Newcastle University in the Biosciences Division. He is an internationally renowned cardiac anatomist and Emeritus Founding Editor of the Press journal 'Cardiology in the Young'. Andrew C. Cook is Professor of Research and Education in Fetal Cardiac Development and Surgical and Interventional Cardiac Anatomy at University College London. Diane Spicer is a Pathologists' Assistant and Cardiac Morphologist in the Heart Institute at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. Anthony M. Hlavacek is a Pediatric Cardiologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Carl L. Backer is Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Kentucky Children's Hospital and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Justin T. Tretter is a Pediatric Cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Surgical approaches to the heart; 2. Development of the heart; 3. Anatomy of the cardiac chambers; 4. Surgical anatomy of the valves of the heart; 5. Surgical anatomy of the coronary circulation; 6. Surgical anatomy of cardiac conduction; 7. Analytic description of congenitally malformed hearts; 8. Lesions with normal segmental connections; 8.1 Septal defects; 8.2 Atrioventricular septal defects; 8.3 Ventricular septal defects; 8.4 Malformations of the valves of the heart; 8.5 Tetralogy of Fallot and Pulmonary Atresia with an Intact Ventricular Septum; 8.6 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome; 9. Lesions in hearts with abnormal segmental connections; 9.1 Functionally Univentricular Heart; 9.2 Discordant ventriculo-arterial connections; 9.3 Double outlet ventricle; 9.4 Common arterial trunk; 9.5 Concordant ventriculo-arterial connections with parallel arterial trunks; 10. Abnormalities of the great vessels; 10.1 Anomalous systemic venous connections; 10.2 Anomalous pulmonary venous connections; 10.3 Obstructive abnormalities of the extrapericardial systemic pathways; 10.4 Vascular rings; 10.5 Pulmonary arterial and ductal anomalies; 10.6 Anomalies of the coronary arteries and aortoventricular tunnels; 11. Positional anomalies of the heart; Index.