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The Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Edited by David D. Yuh, Luca A. Vricella, and William A. Baumgartner, 1400 pp, $165.
New York, NY, McGraw Hill Professional, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-07-141652-8.
JAMA. 2007;298(18):2200-2201.
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Modern cardiac surgery was developed at Johns Hopkins University. Drs Blalock and Taussig of Hopkins developed the blue baby operation that shook the world. In the foreword to this book, Dr Gott states that during the year 1927, 256 patients underwent shunt procedures at Johns Hopkins, which ultimately led to a total of more than 2000 patients receiving this procedure at this institution. This book is a summation and the end result of that early history. While it began as a board review reference guide, it now comprises a complete textbook of cardiothoracic surgery.
In part 1, a large section on general thoracic surgery, the authors have done a complete job of reviewing this extraordinarily difficult topic. Even topics as arcane as thoracic infections are thoroughly reviewed. The section includes a wonderful chapter on congenital chest wall anomalies. Although such anomalies are often not the bailiwick of the thoracic surgeon, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Irving L. Kron, MD, Reviewer
Department of Surgery
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville
ikron@virginia.edu
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