John W. Kirklin

Preface This book, A Textbook of Cardioplegia for Difficult Clinical Problems, is jointly edited by Richard M. Engelman and Sidney Levitsky, both well-known cardiac surgeons with a long experience in clinical as well as experimental studies of myocardial protection. Some of the topics now...

Foreword This monograph on Advances in Cardiovascular Surgery (1973) is the result of my being invited by Drs. Willis Hurst and Dean Mason to produce such a work. Being generally unenthusiastic about books with multiple authors, I considered writing this myself. Quickly it became apparent that...