This handy, pocket-sized guide provides the practical knowledge needed to diagnose and manage children with congenital and acquired heart disease. Extensively revised and updated to reflect the rapid changes in the field, it emphasizes new medical management and surgical techniques, as well as the results of surgery for a number of cardiac conditions.
CHAPTER I. ROUTINE CARDIAC EVALUATION IN CHILDREN I. History Taking II. Physical Examination III. Electrocardiography. IV .Chest Roentgenography V. Flow Diagram
CHAPTER II. SPECIAL TOOLS IN CARDIAC EVALUATION I. Echocardiography II. Exercise Test III. Ambulatory Electrocardiography IV.Cardiac catheterization and Angiocardiography
CHAPTER III. CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS I. Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions II. Obstructive Lesions. III. Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects IV Miscellaneous Congenital Anomalies
CHAPTER IV .ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE I. Primary Myocardial Disease II. Cardiovascular Infections III. Kawasalo Disease IV .Acute Rheumatic Fever V. Valvular Heart Disease VI. Cardiac Tumors
CHAPTER V. ARRHYTHMICA AND ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUTION DISTURBANCES I. Basic Arrhythmias II. Disturbances of Atrioventricular
CHAPTER VI. NEONATAL CARDIAC PROBLEMS. I. Initial Evaluation of the Newborn II. Problem-Based
CHAPTER VII. SPECIAL PROBLEMS I. Congestive Heart Failure II. Chest Pain III. Syncope IV. Long QT Syndrome V. Systemic Hypertension VI. Pulmonary Hypertension VII. Hyperlipidemia in Childhood
CHAPTER VIII. MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC SURGICAL PATIENTS