Nadas' Pediatric Cardiology (3^rd Ed.)

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the foundational and practical aspects of care for complex heart problems in children, covering both therapy and surgery from basic information through complex, team-based clinical applications.

• Includes new chapters on cardiomyopathies, structural heart disease, interventional procedures, genetics, electrophysiology, and imaging.

• Discusses the latest information on diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease, including in the fetus and young adult.

• Covers current drugs used in pediatric heart conditions and surgical therapy.

• Shares the knowledge and expertise of editors and authors at Boston Children’s Hospital, one of the world’s largest and most highly rated pediatric cardiology and congenital heart surgery institutions, using a team-based approach.

• Covers the full spectrum of care, including anesthesia, the ICU, and nursing considerations.

• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

Section I. DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY, DYSMORPHOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY

1. Embryology

2. Morphologic Anatomy

3. Segmental Approach to Diagnosis

4. Dysmorphology and Genetics

5. Fetal and Transitional Circulation

Section II. PROBLEMS CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE

6. Congestive Heart Failure

7. Hypoxemia

8. Central Nervous System Sequelae of Congenital Heart Disease

9. Pulmonary Hypertension

Section III. DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES

10. History, Growth, Nutrition, Physical Examination and Routine Laboratory Tests

11. Electrocardiography and Introduction to Electrophysiologic Techniques

12. Imaging Modalities

13. Cardiac Catheterization

14. Assessment of Ventricular and Myocardial Performance

15. Exercise Testing

Section IV. ALLIED DISCIPLINES

16. Anesthesia and Sedation for Pediatric Cardiac Procedures

17. Intensive Care Unit

18. Pediatric Cardiovascular Nursing

Section V. ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE

19. Common Outpatient Problems: Innocent Murmur, Chest Pain, Syncope

20. Preventive Heart Disease: Hypertension and Dyslipidemia in Childhood and Adolescence

21. Rheumatic Fever

22. Kawasaki Syndrome

23. Cardiomyopathies

24. Pericardial Diseases

25. Infective Endocarditis

26. Cardiac Arrhythmias

27. Cardiac Excitability and Heritable Arrhythmias

Section VI. CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

28. Ventricular Septal Defects

29. Pulmonary Stenosis

30. Tetralogy of Fallot

31. Aortic Outflow Abnormalities

32. Atrial Septal Defects

33. Patent Ductus Arteriosus

34. Coarctation of the Aorta

35. Transposition of the Great Arteries

36. Endocardial Cushion Defects

37. Cardiac Malpositions and the Heterotaxy Syndromes

38. Mitral Valve and Left Atrial Lesions

39. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Mitral Atresia and Aortic Atresia

40. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum

41. Double-Outlet Right Ventricle

42. Single Ventricle

43. Tricuspid Atresia

44. Tricuspid Valve Problems

45. Truncus Arteriosus

46. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return

47. Aortopulmonary Window

48. Origin of a Pulmonary Artery from the Aorta (Hemitruncus)

49. "Corrected" Transposition of the Great Arteries

50. Vascular Fistulae

51. Coronary Artery Anomalies

52. Vascular Rings and Slings

53. Cardiac Tumors

54. Adult Congenital Heart Disease

55. Infant Cardiac Surgery

56. Management of the Univentricular Heart

57. Video/Robotic-Assisted Thoracic surgery: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation

58. Current and Future Cardiovascular Organ and Tissue Replacement Therapies