This book provides a detailed review of the key topics in cardiothoracic surgery in a case-based, question and answer format. The review covers the spectrum of preoperative evaluation, decision-making, operative steps, management of complications, and follow up. Each case-discussion is supplemented with "must-know" information, published guidelines, staging charts and descriptive images. The user-friendly, case-based, question and answer format serves as an ideal medium to facilitate group study.