Practical Pediatric Cardiology


Book Description

Heart disease in children has a number of diagnostic traps for the unwary, and all of us involved in the specialty have been caught at one time or another. For example, it is sometimes very difficult to differentiate between respiratory and cardiac disease in infants and between neurological and cardiac conditions in older children, and the consequences of taking the wrong path can be significant. This book is a collection of cases highlighting situations which can ensnare even the best cardiologist. Although they illustrate the importance of taking a good history and performing a thorough examination, the most important lesson is learning to keep an open mind and develop the ability to think laterally. As clinicians we need to have the confidence to make a decision for our patients but also the humility to be able to acknowledge that we don’t always get it right first time, and it is imperative that we learn from the experience. We hope the reader will find these short chapters interesting and while they are not evidence-based medicine in the true sense, they do represent a wide range of clinical experience from which we can all learn. ​




Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners


Book Description

Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners is the essential medical reference book for the ever-changing field of pediatric cardiology. Comprehensive in its content, it provides the practical guidance you need to diagnose and manage children with congenital and acquired heart disease. From history and physical examination through preventative treatment and the management of special problems, the fully revised 6th edition incorporates all of the latest concepts in cardiology, distilled in a way that is understandable to pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs alike. "...a concise reference book; Students and clinician; practicing Pediatric cardiology will continue to find Park's Pediatric Cardiology book to be easy to read and refer for the precise information readily." Reviewed by: BACCH Newsletter, March 2015 Apply the latest knowledge and methods with coverage of surgical techniques in pediatric cardiology, the application of interventional non-surgical techniques, blood pressure standards, and cardiac arrhythmia treatments. Easily grasp the latest techniques with helpful line drawings throughout. Select the best approaches for your patients with extensive coverage of special problems, including congestive heart failure and syncope. Take advantage of the most recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances in pediatric cardiology. Every topic and chapter has been revised and updated to reflect the latest medical and surgical treatments for all congenital and acquired heart diseases. New surgical approaches, including hybrid procedures, have been updated. A special focus has been placed on noninvasive imaging techniques, normative blood pressure standards, suggested approaches to pediatric hypertension, detection and management of lipid abnormalities as recommended by the Expert Panel, pediatric arrhythmias (including long QT syndrome), and much more. Access the full text online at Expert Consult.




A Practical Handbook on Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Therapy


Book Description

This book combines valid physiology and treatment strategies with the institutional experience of one of the leading German pediatric heart centers. It is intended as a pragmatic guide, focusing on daily practice and bedside medicine: straightforward, easy to implement, and results-oriented. It offers readers a profound understanding of intensive care, with a specific focus on organ systems, their interactions, and the effect of life support technologies, pursuing a comprehensive approach to congenital heart defects and therapies, including pitfalls and solutions. The target group is extended towards pediatric cardiologists and anesthesiologists by integrating chapters on the systematic analysis of hemodynamics and anatomy, diagnostics and treatment of congenital heart defects, plus a chapter on modern anesthesiology during heart operations with a focus on early extubation that minimizes on-pump and medication trauma. As such, the book offers a pragmatic and clinically oriented guide for physicians with advanced experience and expertise in (cardiac) intensive and intermediate care, as well as beginners and junior physicians.




Essential Pediatric Cardiology


Book Description

A practical and concise guide for assessing suspected cardiac disorders in the neonate, child, and adolescent. Written for the non-specialist, this text takes an evidence-based approach to common cardiac problems the generalist will likely encounter.




Anderson's Pediatric Cardiology E-Book


Book Description

As a leading reference on pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease, Anderson's Pediatric Cardiology provides exhaustive coverage of potential pediatric cardiovascular anomalies, potential sequelae related to these anomalies, comorbidities and neurodevelopmental problems, and current methods for management and treatment. The fully revised 4th Edition addresses significant and ongoing changes in practice, including recent developments in fetal, neonatal, and adult congenital heart conditions as well as expanded content on intensive care, nursing issues, and societal implications. The outstanding illustration program provides superb visual guidance, and is now supplemented with a remarkable collection of more than 200 professionally curated, author-narrated videos. - Offers authoritative, long-term coverage of a broad spectrum of cardiology conditions, including congenital heart disease, adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), acquired heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and rhythm disturbances. - Features exquisite specimen images by Dr. Robert Anderson and Diane Spicer dissected in easily recognizable analogous imaging planes. These are included in the over 850 anatomic, photographic, imaging, and algorithmic figures, and incorporate new images using virtual dissections of 3D datasets obtained in living patients. - An extensive new section describing the non-cardiac consequences of congenital cardiac disease and other related issues Outside the Heart, including new chapters on quality improvement in congenital cardiac disease, models of care delivery, neurocognitive assessment and outcomes, psychosocial issues for patients and families, ethics, nursing implications, acute and chronic renal complications, and telemedicine. - Three entirely new, expanded sections on the Functionally Univentricular Heart, Fetal Congenital Cardiac Disease, and Heart Failure and Transplantation. - Provides a new focus on patient and family-centered care with expert advice on how to communicate difficult diagnoses to patients and families. - Features new integration of nursing content into all disease-specific chapters, as well as updated content on genetics, congenital heart disease and follow-up, and new imaging modalities. - Contains chapters on new and emerging topics such as MRI and Quantifying the Fetal Circulation in Congenital Cardiac Disease; Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries; and The Global Burden of Pediatric Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiac Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Shares the experience and knowledge of an international team of multidisciplinary experts in medicine and advanced practice nursing. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, tables and figures from the book on a variety of devices.




Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology


Book Description

Based on Dr. Driscoll's thirty years of successful bedside teaching at the Mayo Clinic, Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology is the ideal textbook for residents in pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric and adult cardiology. This concise, well-organized, and easy-to-understand text can be read cover-to-cover during a pediatric cardiology rotation and focuses sharply on what primary care physicians need to know for initial evaluation and management of patients. Dr. Driscoll explains the many types of congenital heart defects, focusing on the most frequent cardiac problems in infants, children, and adolescents. Emphasis is on use of new diagnostic tools in conjunction with the physical examination.




Pediatric Cardiology Board Review


Book Description

Pediatric Cardiology Board Review is an academic dividend of the popular Pediatric Cardiology Review biannual course that was started by Dr. Chang and Dr. Eidem. The book contains over 875 questions & answers and is geared toward pediatric cardiologists taking the boards or maintenance of certification, pediatricians, and cardiologists interested in freshening their skills. It provides hundreds of questions relating to the diagnosis and treatment of the fetus, infant, child, and adult with congenital heart diseases. The answers provide full explanations to the questions so you know where to best focus your area of study. Plus, with this edition you have access to an online companion website that has the fully searchable text and over 875 questions online so you can test your knowledge anytime, anywhere.




Nadas' Pediatric Cardiology


Book Description

Section I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE --1a.The Nadas Years at Children's Hospital /Jane W. Newburger, Donald C. Fyler --1b.Cardiology at Children's Hospital Boston: Today and Into the Future /James E. Lock --Section II: DEVELOPMENTAL ANATOMY --2.Embryology /Richard Van Praagh --3.Morphologic Anatomy /Richard Van Praagh, Stella Van Praagh --4.Segmental Approach to Diagnosis /Richard Van Praagh, M.D. --Section III: DYSMORPHOLOGY --5.Dysmorphology and Genetics /Ronald V. Lacro, M.D. --Section IV: NORMAL CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY --6.Fetal and Transitional Circulation /Michael D. Freed --Section V: PROBLEMS CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE --7.Congestive Heart Failure /Elizabeth D. Blume, Michael D. Freed, Steven D. Colan --8.Hypoxemia /Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --9.Central Nervous System Sequelae of Congenital Heart Disease /Jane W. Newburger, M.D., M.P.H --10.Pulmonary Hypertension /Mary P. Mullen, M.D. --Section VI: TOOLS OF DIAGNOSIS --11.History, Growth, Nutrition, Physical Examination and Routine Laboratory Tests /Robert L. Geggel, M.D., Donald Fyler, M.D. --12.Electrocardiography and Introduction to Electrophysiologic Techniques /Edward P. Walsh, M.D., Mark E. Alexander, M.D., Frank Cecchin, M.D. --13.Imaging Techniques; Echocardiography: MRI, CT /Mary E. van der Velde and Tal Geva --14.Cardiac Catheterization /James E. Lock, M.D. --15.Assessment of Ventricular and Myocardial Performance /Steven D. Colan, M.D. --16.Exercise Testing /Jonathan Rhodes --Section VII: ALLIED DISCIPLINES --17.Sedation, Anesthesia in Cardiac Procedures /Peter C. Laussen --18.Intensive Care Unit /David L. Wessel, Peter C. Laussen --19.Methodological Issues for Data Base Development: Trends /John K. Triedman, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --20.Methodological Issues in Clinical Research /Kathy J. Jenkins, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Steven D. Colan --21.Pediatric Cardiovascular Nursing /Patricia O'Brien, Martha A.Q. Curley, Patricia A. Hickey --Section VIII: ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE --22.Common Outpatient Problems: Innocent Murmur, Chest Pain, Syncope /Jane W. Newburger, M.D., M.P.H., David R. Fulton, M.D., Mark E. Alexander, M.D. --23.Preventive Heart Disease: Hypertension (systemic) and Dyslipidemia in Childhood and Adolescence /Jane W. Newburger, M.D., M.P.H. --24.Rheumatic Fever /Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --25.Kawasaki Syndrome /David R. Fulton, M.D., Jane W. Newburger, M.D. --26.Cardiomyopathies /Steven D. Colan, M.D. --27.Pericardial Diseases /Roger E. Breitbart --28.Infective Endocarditis /Gerald R. Marx, M.D., Jane W. Newburger, M.D. --29.Cardiac Arrhythmias /Edward P Walsh, M.D., John K. Triedman, M.D., Charles I. Berul, M.D. --Section IX: CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE --30.Ventricular Septal Defect /John F. Keane, Donald C. Fyler --31.Pulmonary Stenosis /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --32.Tetralogy of Fallot /Roger E. Breitbart, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --33.Aortic Outflow Abnormalities /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --34.Atrial Septal Defect /John F. Keane, Tal Geva, Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --35.Patent Ductus Arteriosus /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --36.Coarctation of the Aorta /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --37.D-Transposition of the Great Arteries /David R. Fulton, Donald C. Fyler --38.Endocardial Cushion Defects /Gerald R. Marx, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --39.Cardiac Malpositions and the Heterotaxy Syndromes /Stella Van Praagh --40.Mitral Valve and Left Atrial lesions /Robert L. Geggel, Donald C. Fyler --41.Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Mitral Atresia and Aortic Atresia /Peter Lang, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --42.Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum /John F. Keane, Donald C. Fyler --43.Double-Outlet Right Ventricle /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler --44.Single Ventricle /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --45.Tricuspid Atresia /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --46.Tricuspid Valve Problems /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --47.Truncus Arteriosus /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --48.Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --49.Aortopulmonary Window /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --50.Origin of a Pulmonary Artery from the Aorta (Hemitruncus) /John F. Keane, Donald Fyler --51.'Corrected' Transposition of the Great Arteries /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --52.Vascular Fistulae /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --53.Coronary Artery Anomalies /John F. Keane, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --54.Vascular Rings and Slings /Andrew J. Powell, M.D., Valerie S. Mandell, M.D. --55.Cardiac Tumors /Gerald Marx, M.D., Donald C. Fyler, M.D. --56.Adult Congenital Heart Disease /Michael J. Landzberg, M.D. --Section X: SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS --57.Infant Cardiac Surgery /Bassem Mora, M.D., Pedro del Nido, M.D. --58.Management of the Univentricular Heart /John E. Mayer, Jr. M.D. --59.Video/Robotic-Assisted Thoracic surgery: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation /Pedro del Nido, M.D. --60.Current and Future Cardiovascular Organ and Tissue Replacement Therapies /John E. Mayer, M.D., Elizabeth D. Blume, M.D. --Section XI: THE FUTURE --61.Cardiac Excitability and Heritable Arrhythmias /David E. Clapham, Mark T. Keating --APPENDIX --Principal Drugs Used in Pediatric Cardiology /Jane W. Newburger --INDEX.




Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease


Book Description

The rapidly growing population of adults surviving with congenital heart lesions along with the success of interventional cardiology in the child and adolescent has spawned an incredible interest in adapting the technology for the adult congenital patients. Dr. Mullins, a pioneer in this area, has written an outstanding reference which covers all aspects of performing diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures on patients of all ages. This illustrated book details the equipment and techniques for performing safe and successful procedures, with a strong emphasis on avoiding complications. It also includes the requirements of a catheterization laboratory for congenital heart patients, as well as guidance for setting up and operating such a laboratory. Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease serves as an essential manual for pediatric and adult interventional cardiologists worldwide.




Principles and Practice of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease


Book Description

CMR is a powerful tool in the armamentarium of pediatric cardiology and health care workers caring for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), but a successful study still presents major technical and clinical challenges. This text was created to give trainees, practitioners, allied professionals, and researchers a repository of dependable information and images to base their use of CMR on. Because CHD presents an intricate web of connections and associations that need to be deciphered, the imager performing CMR needs to understand not only anatomy, physiology, function, and surgery for CHD, but also the technical aspects of imaging. Written by experts from the world’s leading institutions, many of whom pioneered the techniques and strategies described, the text is organized in a logical way to provide a complete understanding of the issues involved. It is divided into three main parts: The Basics of CMR - familiarizes the reader with the minimum tools needed to understand the basics, such as evaluating morphology, ventricular function, and utilizing contrast agents CMR of Congenital and Acquired Pediatric Heart Disease - discusses broad categories of CHD and the use of CMR in specific disease states Special Topics in Pediatric Cardiac MR - covers other important areas such as the complementary role of CT scanning, interventional CMR, the role of the technologist in performing a CMR exam, and more With the ever increasing sophistication of technology, more can be done with CMR in a high quality manner in a shorter period of time than had been imagined as recently as just a few years ago. Principles and Practice of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease: Form, Function, and Flow makes a major contribution to applying these techniques to improved patient care. An ideal introduction for the novice or just the curious, this reference will be equally useful to the seasoned practitioner who wants to keep pace with developments in the field and would like a repository of information and images readily availalble.