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The first edition of Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique was published 20 years ago. Its immediate success prompted it to be translated into Portuguese and Japanese. The third edition was translated into Japanese and Chinese. The book has become very popular among young surgeons in training, both at home and abroad. This gratifying response to our work has encouraged us to pursue and launch yet another edition. This new fourth edition has undergone extensive revision and has been updated to reflect the continuing changes in the practice of cardiac surgery and the impact of rapidly evolving new technologies. To accomplish this we have invited Dr. Abbas Ardehali to collaborate with us. He has written the new chapter on heart transplantation and has made numerous other contributions. Dr. Kwok Yun, who was involved with the third edition, has updated the chapters on surgery of the aorta and the aortic valve. Dr. Ramin Beygui has provided the section on endostenting of the thoracic aorta. We both have had the opportunity to perform many of the surgical procedures described in the book with Drs. Ardehali
and Beygui. The senior author has benefited from Dr. Yun's technical expertise over many years of operating together. Thus, the philosophy and the spirit of the work have been maintained by our contributors in this new edition. All chapters have undergone major scrutiny. Many new materials have been introduced. These include the surgical ventricular reconstruction for both left and right ventricular dysfunction, the management of porcelain aorta, and antegrade cerebral perfusion. The section on congenital heart defects introduces new procedures for pulmonary vein stenosis, updated approaches for Tetralogy of Fallot, the aortic translocation operation, and the Sano procedure. Several parts of the book have been completely rewritten, incorporating recent concepts and approaches into the text. Obsolete procedures have been deleted.
