Sabiston & Spencer Surgery of the Chest: 2-Volume Set

A brand-new team of editors and a multitude of new international contributors have completely revamped and updated Sabiston and Spencer's classic reference work. The result is today's only comprehensive, up-to-date collection of all essential clinical knowledge in cardiac and thoracic surgery. The contents have been reorganized into three major sections―Adult Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. And, more than 50 new chapters have been added to reflect important changes within this rapidly evolving field, including both surgical and medical therapeutic approaches. More than 1,500 illustrations, nearly all of them new to this edition, help to clarify key concepts.

• Features a new organization into three major sections―Adult Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery―that makes information
• Covers hot new topics in thoracic surgery including minimal invasive treatment of lung cancer · multimodal therapy for esophageal cancer · innovative therapies and technology in thoracic surgery · and endoscopic treatment of thoracic disease.
  
• Explores new developments in adult cardiac surgery, such as catheter-based treatment of coronary disease · advances in cardiac pacing and pacemakers · valve replacement therapy · Left Ventricular Assist Devices · and bypass grafting for coronary
• Addresses important new areas of pediatric cardiac surgery, such as cardiac catheterization and catheter-based interventions · transposition of the great arteries · congenital anomalies of the mitral valve · surgery for arrhythmias · and pacemakers in children.
  
• Offers oversight from a brand-new editorial team, and contributions from a multitude of new authors from around the world―to present fresh perspectives on every aspect of the field.
  
• Includes a new CD that contains all of the book's illustrations, easily importable into PowerPoint presentations.

Dr Frank Sellke is the Karl Karlson & Gloria Karlson Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan Hospitals. He previously served as the Johnson & Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, having been a successful clinician, educator and researcher in the cardiovascular field. Dr Sellke has published over 585 papers with 115,000 citations. Dr Sellke is the 2021 recipient of the Brown University Distinguished Research Award in Medicine or Biology, the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Association and the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and is a member of several other editorial boards.