Main description:

This reference work aims to be the primary resource in the field of heart disease in children and adult congenital heart disease. It contains nearly 100 chapters covering all aspects of heart disease in three populations: fetus with acquired and congenital heart diseases, children with acquired and congenital heart diseases, and adults with congenital heart diseases.

Divided into five main sections, the book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and continuously revised overview of what is known in the field as well as resources for practical use such as normal values, medication information, and review of published guidelines. The first section of the book includes historical background on congenital heart disease and the evolution of medical, surgical, and catheter therapeutics. The fetal heart disease section comes next and covers cardiovascular embryogenesis, etiological mechanisms, diagnostic tools, presentation and management, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, perinatal management, and emergencies. The bulk of the book lies in the third section on pediatric cardiology, which examines not only basic science, assessment, and therapies but also a wide variety of specific acquired and congenital diseases such as valvular lesions, arterial diseases, cyanotic heart diseases, cardiomyopathies, cardiac tumors, and pulmonary hypertension. This is followed by the section on adult congenital heart diseases, discussing echocardiography, electrophysiology, neurodevelopment, and a variety of unique aspects of congenital heart disease in the adult years. The final section of the book focuses on pharmacology with chapters on inotropes, vasopressors, diuretics, and more.

Pediatric Cardiology: Fetal and Pediatric Heart Diseases & Adult Congenital Heart Diseases is an essential reference for physicians, residents, fellows, medical students, nurse-practitioners, and allied health professionals in cardiology, pediatrics, cardiac surgery, and imaging/radiology.

Contents:

Part I. Historical Perspective

Evolution of a Science

1. Recognizing congenital heart disease

2. History of understanding pathology and hemodynamics of congenital heart disease

3. Evolution of medical, surgical, and catheter therapeutics

Part II. Fetal Cardiology

Cardiovascular Embryogenesis

4. Embryological development of the cardiovascular system

5. Normal development of the cardiovascular system

6. Mechanisms of abnormal development of the cardiovascular system

Etiological Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease

7. Genetics

8. Environmental factors

Diagnostic Tools in Managing Fetal Heart Diseases

9. Fetal obstetrical ultrasound

10. Fetal echocardiography

11. Fetal magnetocardiography

12. Other imaging modalities

Fetal Congenital Heart Diseases: Presentation and Management

13. Shunt lesions

14. Obstructive lesions

15. Anomalies of the great vessels

16. Single ventricle and heterotaxy

17. Valvar lesions

Fetal Cardiomyopathies

18. Dilated cardiomyopathy

19. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Fetal Arrhythmia: Diagnosis and Management

20. Bradyarrhythmia

21. Tachyarrhythmia

22. Premature beats

Perinatal Management of Fetal Heart Diseases

23. Assessment of the fetus with congenital heart disease

24. Multidisciplinary approach

25. Counseling for fetal heart disease

Emergencies in Fetal Cardiology

26. Primary heart failure

27. Secondary heart failure

Part III. Pediatric Cardiology

Basic Sciences of the Cardiovascular System

28. Cardiovascular Anatomy

29. Cardiovascular Physiology

30. Electrophysiology

Assessment of the Cardiovascular System

31. History and physical examination

32. Diagnostic tools

33. Chest x-ray

34. ECG

35. Echocardiography

36. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization

37. CT scan and MRI

38. Exercise stress test

Therapeutic Tools

39. Interventional cardiac catheterization

40. Peripheral vascular intervention

41. Lymphatic intervention

Congenital Heart Diseases

Shunt Lesions

42. Atrial septal defects

43. Atrioventricular septal defects

44. Ventricular septal defects

45. Arterial shunts

Valvular Lesions

46. Tricuspid valve lesions

47. Mitral valve lesions

48. Pulmonary valve lesions

49. Aortic valve lesions

Cyanotic Heart Diseases

50. Right heart lesions

51. Left heart lesions

52. Single ventricle

53. Great vessel lesions

Arterial Diseases

54. Coarctation of aorta

55. Interrupted aortic arch

56. Vascular ring

Systemic Venous Lesions

57. Superior vena cava lesions

58. Inferior vena cava lesions

59. Coronary sinus lesions

Pulmonary Venous Lesions

60. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return

61. Total anomalous pulmonary venous return

62. Pulmonary stenosis

Coronary Artery Lesions

63. Anomalous origin of coronary arteries from opposite sinus

64. Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery

Acquired Heart Diseases

Cardiomyopathies

65. Dilated cardiomyopathy

66. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

67. Restrictive cardiomyopathy

Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases Affecting Cardiovascular Disease

68. Kawasaki Disease

69. Rheumatic fever

70. Infective endocarditis

71. Pericarditis

Adult Type Heart Diseases in the Pediatric Age

72. Ischemic Heart Disease

73. Lipid disorders

Cardiac Tumors

74. Benign tumors

75. Malignant tumors

76. Extracardiac masses

Cardiac Trauma

77. Cardiac trauma

Pulmonary Hypertension

78. Pulmonary hypertension in the neonate

79. Pulmonary hypertension secondary to heart disease

Neurodevelopment and Quality of Life in Children with Heart Diseases

Part IV. Adult Congenital Heart Disease

80. Echocardiography

81. Cardiac catheterization

82. Electrophysiology

83. Unique aspects of congenital heart disease in the adult years

84. Shunt lesions

85. Obstructive lesions

86. Valvar lesions

87. Single ventricle

88. Maternal Heart Diseases

89. Neurodevelopment and Quality of Life in adults with congenital heart diseases

Part V. Pharmacology

90. Inotropes

91. Afterload reducing agents

92. Vasopressors

93. Diuretics

94. Antiarrhythmic agents

95. Resuscitation agents