Moller’s Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology

Description:

Highly useful guide for all members of a multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease

Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, Moller’s Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition provides a unique, concise, and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children. From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-ray—the basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concern—this work goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.

Every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC, and ESC. Recent updates also include an enhanced section on imaging, including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography, new techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations, and much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations. This work also includes an expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, and neonatal screening for congenital heart disease.

Moller’s Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition also provides:

Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children and environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children

Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children, conditions obstructing blood flow in children, and congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children

Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children, unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants, and the cardiac conditions acquired during childhood

Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children and congestive heart failure in infants and children

Moller’s Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Edition is a succinct and accessible yet highly detailed and informative resource for treating children suffering from heart disease. It is an invaluable reference for anyone working on a multidisciplinary team treating patients with these attributes.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children

HISTORY

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

LABORATORY EXAMINATION

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 2: Environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children

SYNDROMES ASSOCIATED WITH MATERNAL CONDITIONS

MEDICATIONS AND OTHER AGENTS

SYNDROMES WITH GROSS CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES

SYNDROMES WITH CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES DETECTABLE BY SPECIAL CYTOGENETIC TECHNIQUES

OTHER SYNDROMES WITH FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE

CLINICAL GENETIC EVALUATION

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 3: Classification and physiology of congenital heart disease in children

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

CLINICAL CORRELATION

Chapter 4: Anomalies with a left‐to‐right shunt in children

SHUNTS AT VENTRICULAR OR GREAT VESSEL LEVEL

VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT

PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS

ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT

ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT

Chapter 5: Conditions obstructing blood flow in children

COARCTATION OF THE AORTA

AORTIC STENOSIS

PULMONARY STENOSIS

Chapter 6: Congenital heart disease with a right‐to‐left shunt in children

ADMIXTURE LESIONS

CYANOSIS AND DIMINISHED PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW

Chapter 7: Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children

CONGENITALLY CORRECTED TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT VESSELS/ARTERIES

MALPOSITION OF THE HEART

HETEROTAXY SYNDROMES

VASCULAR RING

VASCULAR (PULMONARY ARTERY) SLING

Chapter 8: Unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants

NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY

CARDIAC DISEASE IN NEONATES

Chapter 9: The cardiac conditions acquired during childhood

KAWASAKI DISEASE

RHEUMATIC FEVER

MYOCARDIAL DISEASES

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

MARFAN SYNDROME

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE

PERICARDITIS

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 10: Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children

ALTERATIONS IN CARDIAC RATE

CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TACHYARRHYTHMIA DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 11: Congestive heart failure in infants and children

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT

DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

ADDITIONAL READING

Chapter 12: A healthy lifestyle and preventing heart disease in children

PREVENTION FOR CHILDREN WITH A NORMAL HEART

ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH HEART DISEASE

ADDITIONAL READING AND REFERENCES

Additional reading

Index

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