- Structured using simple practical features for all readers to build their understanding of the topic
- Includes chapter-based MCQs to test the reader into a number of challenging clinical cases to test them
- Considers each congenital heart defect and disease within the focus of genetics, medicine and surgery
This text and guide discusses the surgical and medical management of congenital heart diseases in both adult and children.
It describes the disease, pathology, treatment, complications and follow-up with extensive use of didactic material to educate the reader to the practicalities of the subject. It details the novel research via an extensive literature review, while covering all aspects of the surgical and medical treatment of congenital heart disease. It includes review of the laparoscopic techniques and epidemiology of each disease involved and their prevalence to provide the reader with the full clinical picture.
Clinical and Surgical Aspects of Congenital Heart Diseases: Text and Study Guide provides a thorough practical reference for the discipline with the use of illustrations and charts to facilitate understanding. It is essential reading for all trainee and practicing cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and internists, and all interested healthcare professionals.
Table of Contents- Genetic Basis of Congenital Heart Disease
- Epidemiology of Congenital Heart Diseases
- Diagnosis of CHD During Perinatal Life
- Ventricular Septal Defect
- Atrial Septal Defect
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- The Coarctation of Aorta
- Truncus Arteriosus
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Teratology of Fallot (TOF)
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
- Multiple Malformations
- Ectopia Cordis
- Aortic Stenosis (AS)
- Atrioventricular Septal Defect
- Bicuspid Aortic Valve
- Cardiomyopathies
- Complete Heart Block (CHB)
- Dextrocardia
- Double Inlet Left Ventricle
- Double Outlet Right Ventricle
- Ebstein’s Anomaly
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome
- Mitral Stenosis
- Rhabdomyoma
- Transposition of the Great Artery
- Wolff–Parkinson–White Syndrome
- Laparoscopic Surgery of Congenital Heart
- Perfusion in Congenital Heart Surgery
