Offering a unique and helpful approach to this complex field, Khonsari and Sintek’s Cardiac Surgery: Safeguards and Pitfalls in Operative Technique, Sixth Edition, edited by Drs. Abbas Ardehali and Jonathan Chen, details the most important cardiac surgery techniques with a focus on avoiding and managing surgical pitfalls and complications. From general considerations through the surgical correction of acquired and congenital heart conditions, it provides practical, hands-on guidance in a c...

Sun Wu Kong, punished by Buddha centuries before, has spent five hundred years buried under Five-Finger Mountain when he encounters San Zang, a priest headed west in search of Buddhist scriptures. On the Goddess of Mercy's instructions, Wu Kong frees himself and assists the priest on a journey to the West that will be fraught with peril. But San Zang soon learns that trouble won't come only in the form of dragons or bandits; it will come from the violent and impetuous monkey who is now his...

Liu Bei has chosen to challenge Cao Cao for the role of the most powerful man in China. But on the eve of battle, Liu Bei's ally, Yuan Shao, fails to support him, and Liu Bei must run for his life. This leaves Guan Yu alone to fend for himself against Cao Cao, who is keen to have a man of his courage and honor on his side. Can Cao Cao convince Guan Yu to change allegiance? Can Guan Yu serve two masters? What will happen when a decision is made?Guan Yu's pledge isn't that different ...

After several years of arduous travel, during which time they crossed every imaginable form of terrain and confronted innumerable obstacles and adversaries, San Zang and his disciples come to a legitimate mark of their progress for the first time in ages: they have crossed the border out of China and into India, and their journey's conclusion is drawing closer by the hour. But being in a new country doesn't mean they won't encounter the same old villains, and the four companions will have ...