RECOMMENDED READING

HISTORY OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

1. The History of Thoracic Surgery
   Meade RH (source book for early phase cardiac surgery), 1961, CH.C Thomas, Springfield, USA 
2. The History of Cardiothoracic Surgery
   Hurt R (more devoted to thoracic surgery), 1996, Parthenon Publishing Group, New York, London
3. The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery
   Shumaker HB (all-encompassing text),1992, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indianapolis
4. Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery
   Westaby S (exemplary chapters), 1997, ISIS Medical Media, Oxford

CARDIAC LITERATURE

1. Cardiovascular and Vascular Diseases of the Aorta
   Lars G Svensson, ES Crawford, 1997, W.B Saunders Co.
2. Surgical Treatment of Aortic Dissection
   Hans G Borst, MK Heinemann, ChD Stone,1996, Churchill Livingstone Inc. 
3. Cardiac surgery
   Kirklin W.W, Barrat Boyes B.B., Churchill and Livingstone, New York, 1986 
4. Cardiac Surgery of the Neonate and Infant
   Castaneda:W B Saunders Co (A division of Harcourt Brace & Co), 1994
5. Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects
   Stark J, de Leval M: Second edition, Philadelphia: Saunders, 1993 
6. Complications in Cardiothoracic surgery
   Waldhausen J A, Oringer M B. Mosby Year Book, St Louis, 1991
7. Reoperations in Cardiac surgery
   Stark J, Pacifico AD. Springer-Verlag, London,1989
8. Cardiac Surgery in the Adult
   Lawrence H., MD. Cohn, L. Henry, Jr., Md. Edmunds, Lawrence, MD Cohn. McGraw-Hill Professional; 2nd edition (May 12, 2003) 
9. Cardiac Surgery
   Nicholas Kouchoukos, Eugene Blackstone, Donald Doty, Frank Hanley, Robert Karp. W B Saunders; 3rd edition (July 31, 2003) 
10. Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique
    Siavosh Khonsari.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers; 2nd edition (September 2003) 
11. Essentials of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
    K. Moghissi, JAC Thorpe and F. Ciulli, Elsevier, 2003

THORACIC LITERATURE

1. General Thoracic Surgery
   Thomas W. Shields, Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 5th edition
   ISBN: 0-683-30619-7
2. Thoracic Surgery
   F. Griffith Pearson et al, Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2nd edition
   ISBN: 0443075956
3. Esophageal Surgery
   F. Griffith Pearson et al,Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 2nd edition
   ISBN: 0443076057 
4. Glenn’s Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
   Arthur E. Baue et al, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 6th edition
   ISBN: 0838531342
5. Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery
   Jonathan L. Benumof, Publisher: WB Saunders; 2nd edition
   ISBN: 0721644678
   OR
   Thoracic Anesthesia
   Joel. A. Kaplan, Peter Silinger
   Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, ISBN: 0443066191
6. Essentials of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
   K. Moghissi, JAC Thorpe and F. Ciulli, Elsevier, 2003