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Pediatric Cardiology


Pediatric Cardiology

The Essential Pocket Guide
3. Aufl.

von: Walter H. Johnson, James H. Moller

62,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 03.02.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118503393
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 400

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<p>Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems.</p> <p>Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, <b>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</b> provides a unique, concise and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children.</p> <p>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 – it goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.</p> <p>New to this edition you’ll find:</p> <ul> <li>An enhanced section on imaging including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography.</li> <li>New techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations.</li> <li>Much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations.</li> <li>Expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, neonatal screening for congenital heart disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome.</li> <li>Expanded and updated congestive cardiac failure section, including the latest in genetic and metabolic causes of heart failure, and medical/surgical treatment options; discussion of bridging therapies; essentials of transplantation, including common drug treatment regimens, clinical recognition of treatment complications and rejection, outcomes, morbidity and survival.</li> </ul> <p>In addition, every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC and ESC.</p> <p><b>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</b>, 3<sup>rd</sup> edition, is quite simply a must-have guide for all members of the multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease.</p>
<p>Preface vii</p> <p>1. Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children 1</p> <p>2. Environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children 73</p> <p>3. Classification and physiology of congenital heart disease in children 86</p> <p>4. Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children 95</p> <p>5. Conditions obstructing blood flow in children 148</p> <p>6. Congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children 186</p> <p>7. Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children 233</p> <p>8. Unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants 245</p> <p>9. The cardiac conditions acquired during childhood 259</p> <p>10. Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children 291</p> <p>11. Congestive heart failure in infants and children 315</p> <p>12. A healthy lifestyle and preventing heart disease in children 329</p> <p>Additional reading 373</p> <p>Index 375</p>
<p>“This is an extremely valuable resource not only for those interested in pediatric cardiology, but also general pediatricians and adult cardiologists who manage patients with congenital heart diseases.”  (<i>Doody’</i>s, 6 February 2015)</p> <p>“Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide, 3<sup>rd</sup> edition, is quite simply a must-have guide for all members of the multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease.”  (<i>Kingbook73's Medical Ebook and Video Collection</i>, 20 August 2014)</p>
<b>Walter H. Johnson, Jr., MD</b>, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA <p><b>James H. Moller, MD,</b> Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA</p>
<p>Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems.</p> <p>Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, <i>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</i> 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 – it goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.</p> <p>New to this edition</p> <ul> <li>An enhanced section on imaging including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography.</li> <li>New techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations.</li> <li>Much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations.</li> <li>Expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, neonatal screening for congenital heart disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome.</li> <li>Expanded and updated congestive cardiac failure section, including the latest in genetic and metabolic causes of heart failure, and medical/surgical treatment options; discussion of bridging therapies; essentials of transplantation, including common drug treatment regimens, clinical recognition of treatment complications and rejection, outcomes, morbidity and survival.</li> </ul> <p>In addition, every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC and ESC.</p> <p><i>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</i>, Third Edition, is quite simply a must-have guide for all members of the multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease.</p>

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