Pediatric Heart Disease: A Practical Guide

A companion book to Adult Congenital Heart Disease that will concentrate on the practical management of children with heart conditions. This is aimed at general paediatricians and physicians who are responsible for ongoing management, rather than specialists concerned with acute or rare presentations. The book will be illustrated with relevant radiology scans, demonstrating which investigations are appropriate and will provide the relevant information for the generalist on patient management for different lesions. A section on emergency management is also included. Authorship is international, with contributions from both sides of the Atlantic and from Japan.

Περιεχόμενα:

Section I: General cardiology / 1 Epidemiology and genetics / 2 Basic cardiac physiology / 3 Cardiac morphology and nomenclature

Section II: Clinical evaluation and investigation / 4 History and clinical examination / 5 Basic non-invasive investigations / 6 Echocardiography and Doppler / 7 Diagnostic cardiac catheterization and angiography / 8 Advanced cardiac imaging

Section III: Specific congenital heart lesions / 9 Left-to-right shunts / 10 Right-sided malformations / 11 Abnormalities of left ventricular infl ow and outflow / 12 Aortic malformations, rings and slings / 13 Coronary artery lesions / Cyanotic lesions : 14 Transposition and transposition complexes / 15 Abnormalities of right ventricular outflow / 16 Common mixing situations / Other lesions : 17 Heterotaxy, scimitar and arteriovenous malformations

Section IV: Diseases of the peri-, endo- and myocardium / 18 Pericardial disease and infectious endocarditis / 19 Cardiomyopathies and acute myocarditis / 20 Cardiac tumors

Section V: Pulmonary hypertension / 21 Primary pulmonary arterial hypertension in children                  22 Pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease

Section VI: Rhythm disorders / 23 Bradyarrhythmias / 24 Tachyarrhythmias

Section VII: Systemic disease with cardiovascular involvement / 25 Rheumatic fever / 26 Marfan syndrome and connective tissue disorders / 27 Kawasaki disease and Takayasu arteritis                            28 Hyperlipidemia / 29 Systemic hypertension

Section VIII: Congenital heart disease at the extremes of life / 30 Fetal cardiology / 31 Adult congenital heart disease

Section IX: Management strategies / 32 Principles of medical management / 33 Catheter intervention  34 Principles of surgical management / 35 Heart, lung and heart–lung transplantation

Section X: Common clinical problems in the office / 36 Murmurs in asymptomatic patients / 37 Syncope and presyncope / 38 Chest pain / 39 Palpitations / 40 Stridor / 41 Cyanosis and cyanotic spells / 42 Activity restriction / Appendices : Appendix A Resuscitation algorithms, Appendix B Glossary of terms commonly used in pediatric cardiac disease, Appendix C Pediatric cardiac drugs and dosages, Appendix D Endocarditis prophylaxis, Appendix E Anticoagulation guidelines