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The Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital Heart Disease and Repair was created to provide a pocket-sized visual resource for pediatric cardiologists to assist their discussions with staff, students, patients, and their families. It features hundreds of clear color illustrations, showing defect anatomy, surgical and interventional procedures, conduction anomalies, fundamentals of echocardiography, and much, much more. It has become the best-selling book about pediatric cardiology and has changed the way that congenital heart disease is taught.The Field Guide includes a handy reference to common cardiac pharmaceuticals as well as an overview of cardiac ICU topics. It is designed to serve a broad audience of medical students, residents, and nurses - as well as anesthesiologists, general pediatricians, and adult cardiologists who only occasionally see patients with congenital heart disease.The revised version of the Second Edition Revised has been expanded to over 400 pages in length, with over 40 new pictures and an updated text. Available both in pocket-sized and large format editions. ... Read more

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Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, by Drs. Gatzoulis, Webb, and Daubeney, is a practical, one-stop resource designed to help you manage the unique challenges of treating long-term adult survivors of congenital heart disease. Authored by internationally known leaders in the field, this edition is the first that truly integrates anatomy and imaging technology into clinical practice, and includes new chapters on cardiac CT for ACHD assessment, critical and perioperative care, anesthesia for ACHD surgery, cardiac resynchronization therapy, and transition of care. Congenital defects are presented with high-quality illustrations and appropriate imaging modalities. Easy access to the complete contents and image library can be found at expertconsult.com.

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Outstanding resource with beautiful images
This is an invaluable resource for congenital cardiology fellows and cardiologists.The chapters are very well written and the images are outstanding.The text is succinct enough to not be overwhelming and there are tons of images in each chapter for easy reference.Definitely the best book on the market focusing on congenital echocardiography. ... Read more

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Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood.

CHD is one of the most important topics in cardiology today, yet this book is the only clinically-orientated monograph devoted exclusively to ventricular function and blood flow as it relates to CHD. It is essential that not only pediatricians, pediatric cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and cardiac anesthesiologists familiarize themselves with all the nuances of this branch of pediatrics, but that family practitioners, internists, adult cardiologists and intensivists do so as well.

Written by a distinguished panel of cardiologists, bioengineers, physiologists, and clinical investigators, Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Congenital Heart Disease is an extensive and comprehensive presentation of the key aspects of this branch of CHD.

This textbook can be used as both a learning tool and reference, or as a springboard to further study in the field. ... Read more

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Congenital heart disease with its worldwide incidence of 1% is the most common inborn defect. Increasingly, patients are living into adulthood, with ongoing congenital heart and other medical needs. Sadly, only a small minority have specialist follow-up. However, all patients see their family doctor and may also seek advice from other health professionals.

This practical guide with its straightforward a,b,c approach is written for those professionals.

Special features of this book:

• Introduces the principles of congenital heart disease and tells you whom and when to refer for specialist care
• Discusses common congenital heart lesions in a practical, easy-to-follow way, with an emphasis on diagnosis and management issues
• Includes an extensive chapter on 'Pregnancy and Contraception' (by Philip J. Steer), essential both for family planning and for managing safely the pregnant woman with congenital heart disease
• Includes chapters on non-cardiac surgery and lifestyle issues such as work, insurability, travel and driving
• Provides invaluable information on dealing with common emergencies; what to do and what not to do

With a wealth of illustrations (including diagrams, EKGs, CXRs, Echos and cardiac MRIs) and with key point tables, this is an essential guide for all health care professionals managing patients with adult congenital heart disease. ... Read more

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Finally, a resource that takes full advantage of modern technology. In a major advance for pediatric cardiology, this text/DVD set covers ultrasound physics; laboratory set-up; a protocol for a standard pediatric echocardiogram; quantitative methods of echocardiographic evaluation, including assessment of diastolic function; in-depth coverage of congenital cardiovascular malformations; acquired pediatric heart disease; and topics of special interest, such as 3D echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and fetal echocardiography.

Amazon-Exclusive Q&A with Author Wyman Lai

Tell us a little bit about your book, who is it aimed at and how will it help them?
This book is a comprehensive textbook of pediatric echocardiography. It covers the latest advances in ultrasound imaging of the heart in children, and also deals with congenital heart disease in fetuses and adults. The textbook is aimed at those who practice and teach pediatric and congenital echocardiography. It provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to pediatric cardiac ultrasound and includes information about the anatomy, pathophysiology, and goals of the echocardiographic examination for each lesion before, during, and after treatment.

What inspired you to write the book?
We, the editors, saw a great need for an updated reference textbook for our trainees and for our colleagues and their trainees. It has been over a decade since the release of the last comprehensive textbook on this topic.

What do you hope readers will get out of it?
The chapters are written by experts throughout North American and Europe. Despite the wide geographic distribution of the authors, a consistent and thorough approach to pediatric echocardiography is provided. The readers will also have a DVD with hundreds of examples of key anatomic and functional issues mentioned in the text

What is different about your book from others in the field?
Its main attraction is that it is recently released and incorporates the latest technologies. It provides a perspective from authors drawn from most of the major pediatric cardiology centers on two continents. It is also the first comprehensive textbook to provide illustrative video clips, which greatly improve the readers’ ability to understand the information in the text and still figures.

What is your day job?
I run a non-invasive pediatric cardiology imaging laboratory at an academic medical center.

How did you get into this line of work?
I like taking care of children, and I enjoy the challenge of diagnosing and treating congenital heart disease. I have had great role models who were devoted to their patients but who also loved to teach.

What would you be if you were not a doctor?
I’d do something else that requires puzzle solving. Perhaps I’d be an engineer or an architect.

And finally, did you enjoy writing this book, and are you planning any others?
It was fun to work with my co-editors and all the authors. Everyone was willing to squeeze in this work despite being already incredibly busy. We’d like to update the textbook periodically in order to keep it relevant and on the cutting edge. Future editions should be more electronically based and accessible to readers over the internet.

Customer Reviews (1)

A must have for the pediatric echocardiographer
This is a truly exelent book, a lot of precise information in a relatively small space. The format of each section is the same through-out, and makes it fairly easy to find the relevant information. The first chapters, on equipment, standards and the ewxamination is also of a high standard. While I don't agree on every statement everywhere the chapters are well referenced and the pertinent points clearly made so this book should be a good fundament for further discussions in the echo labs.

If you are going to by just one book on this subject, this should be it. ... Read more

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Cases in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, by Michael Gatzoulis et al., is a new, one-of-a-kind cardiology reference designed to help you effectively manage challenging congenital conditions in adults through comprehensive visual guidance. Leading experts present 85 cases-ranging from the simple to the complex, supplemented by abundant images-which enable you to diagnose these cases from a real-life, clinical perspective. A companion website at expertconsult.com featuring full text and images and supplemented by a library of dynamic imaging clips allows you to access this unique resource in another convenient way.

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The cases grabbed me like a mystery novel

I am a fan of Drs. Webb and Gatzoulis.I had the pleasure to shadow Dr. Webb in his clinic and his case conference when he was in Toronto and it was one of the most memorable clinical experience.Reading his new book remind a me of the great time I had with him during my training years.

The cases are very interesting and they are presented in a very engaging manner.There are some simple cases, but many of the cases are difficult and involve complex clinical decision making.The cases read like a detective novel.The case number 10 by Dr Broberg, straddling of the tricuspid valve, was particularly memorable because the case was complex, decision was even more complex (involving all subspecialties of cardiology), the outcome was gut wrenching, but after finishing the case I gained a lot of cardiology pearls.I admire the writers for their courage in presenting cases with suboptimal outcome, which are very informative for the readers.

Beginners in congenital heart disease will learn a lot from the focused discussion points: so no need to worry if you are a true beginner, but it would be optimal to read Dr. webb's chapter in Braunwald Heart textbook first. Even for people with casual interest in congenital heart disease (e.g. Adult general cardiology fellows) the discussions of ekg and physical exam findings in each case will make you a better cardiac clinician.But for clinicians who deal with congenital heart disease on a daily basis, this is an important "not-to-be-missed" landmark publication.

The echo, Cath and CT/MRI images are clear and informative.

I thank the authors for this very engaging book. ... Read more

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This manual provides a comprehensive overview of how the cardiac catheterization laboratory in a pediatric cardiology division works. Chapters are organized in the order in which a case progresses. Specific types of cases are discussed in detail and hemodynamics is covered in depth. Information tables and line illustrations are used throughout the text to further emphasize important concepts and information.

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This timely revision reflects the rapid advances in surgery and anesthesia for congenital heart disease that have occurred in recent years, including neonatal cardiac surgery and anesthesia, treatment of single ventricle patients, new diagnostic modalities, and developments in the catheterization laboratory. New chapters address mechanical support of the circulation, embryology, and quality/outcomes management. ... Read more

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Reviewing specific diseases in terms of the cardiac MR approach and procedures, this essential reference focuses fully on cardiac MR as it relates to congenital heart disease. Equipped with an atlas of images and their interpretation, this book will prove indispensable to any cardiac imaging lab. ... Read more

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OPTIMIZE ADULT PATIENT CAREWITH THIS WORLD-CLASS GUIDE TO THEBROAD SPECTRUM OF CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS

"…[the authors} have carefully summarized their 20 to 40 years of clinical experience to provide the reader with the most essential and practical information about patients with congenital heart disease."-- Review in JAMA

Includes 50 full-color echocardiograms and angiograms
Depicts each important congenital heart disease lesion as acyanotic or cyanotic
Describes the surgical approach that corrects or palliates the lesion…the secondary consequences and natural history of each lesion…and the problems and consequences related to types of surgical interventions
Discusses end-stage medical and surgical management
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"…medical housestaff who have this monograph available will breathe easier when they encounter and must present or discuss the next patient with adult congenital heart disease, an unusual cardiac examination, or a difficult-to-interpret electrocardiogram." [From the Foreword by Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD, Bard Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Chairman, Department of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital]

Featuring outstanding four-color echocardiograms and angiograms as well as original schematic drawings, this unique reference fills a need long felt by internists and cardiologists who assume the care of adult patients with congenital cardiac abnormalities.

Each chapter of Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult focuses on a specific lesion –- characterized as acyanotic or cyanotic –- reviewing:
Anatomy
Physiology
Clinical presentation
Surgical repair
Potential long-term problems encountered in adulthood

Chapter summary sections review the most important information about the congenital heart lesion, allowing a patient's status to be better categorized when the patient is first referred to an internist/cardiologist for evaluation

"…an easily accessible resource for the general internist (in training or practice) or the cardiologist without extensive training in congenital heart disease."

-- Review in the New England Journal of Medicine

Emphasizes optimal evaluation and follow-up care

Gives special scrutiny to physical and laboratory findings; indications for invasive assessment; and management planning
Offers valuable special sections devoted to pregnancy and the genetics of congenital heart disease
Identifies critical issues in shortened form, with an included algorithm illustrating a clinical practice plan for management of each defect and its variations, based on the patient's current status
Provides guidelines outlining the frequency of visits, appropriate testing, and criteria for intervention ... Read more

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comprehensive and valuable tool
This is a great book for physicians and laymen alike.A must read for anyone who has an interest in adult congenital heart! ... Read more

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Dr. Perloff, the founding father of the field of adult congenital heart disease, presents a decade’s worth of research and clinical data in the completely redefined 3rd edition to bring you the most current information. With advances in diagnosis and treatment in children, more and more of those with CHD survive well into adulthood. Expert contributors in various fields offer a multi-disciplinary, multi-system approach to treatment so you get comprehensive coverage on all aspects of the subspecialty, including basic unoperated malformations, medical and surgical perspectives, postoperative residue, and sequelae. As someone who treats these patients, you need to be ready to provide the continual care they require.

• Conveys a multidisciplinary, multi-system approach to the lifelong care of adult CHD patients to put treatment in a broader context.
  
• Presents information in a consistent, logical style so the information you need is easy to find and apply.
  
• Supplements the text with 600 clear conceptual illustrations to clarify difficult concepts.

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Congenital Heart Disease Book
The book arrived before the estimated delivery date and it was in excellent condition. I would use this book store again.

Review of the book - Congenital heart disease in adults by Perloff
It is an excellent book, very well written.I enjoy reading it.Section II and section III are very informative.

Excellent Review of CHD in Adults
Perloff and Child's book Congenital Heart Disease in Adults provides excellent clinical information on the special needs and concerns faced in caring for adults with CHD. I found the section on cyanotic CHDparticularly useful and referred my primary care physician to it. ... Read more

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This important revision presents the accumulated knowledge of its highly-regarded author, Dr. Abraham Rudolph, who is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading pioneers in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. Fully revised and updated, the book includes sections considering the changes in pathophysiology with growth into adulthood and the effects of various treatment approaches. The author explains the physiology of normal fetal circulation and the effects of congenital cardiac lesions, with particular reference to the interactions between the lesions and fetal cardiovascular development. ... Read more

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This book is the first single authored textbook covering the complete spectrum of surgical management of congenital heart disease. The author, Dr. Richard Jonas, is the Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston and the fourth William E Ladd Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Management of congenital heart disease today requires a collaborative effort by a large healthcare team including congenital cardiac surgeons but also pediatric cardiologists, pediatric cardiac intensivists, pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists, perfusion and respiratory technicians and pediatric nurses. All of these individuals need to have a clear understanding of the surgical manipulations that take place in the operating room. This textbook provides beautifully illustrations that clearly depict even the most complex procedures. But this book is much more than an operative atlas. It presents evidence-based medicine that provides numerous scientific citations which explain not only how an operation should be done but in addition when and why it should be done and the outcomes of these interventions. ... Read more

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comprehensive surgical management of congenital heart disease
The book has great pictures to demonstrates the surgical anatomy of complex congintal heart disease! Great book and very helpful

Great Reference!!!!!
I have truly enjoyed the Jonas book.I work in cardiac Pedi surgery and have needed a detailed reference geared toward Perfusionists and the Jonas book truly hit the mark.

Boston Souvenir
I found this book very intuitive, illustrations are wonderful, the author insights are exceptional. Although, I'm not a surgeon, this is still very good book for the anesthesiologist to understand the surgical perspective.
When I miss people and everything at Children Hospital-Boston. I get it all back again reading a chapter ,any chapter. It's so sentimental.

Congenital heart surgery
This is a well done book. Useful to get basic knowledge from young surgeons. I liked it and it satisfate my expectaions. ... Read more

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• Evaluates the natural history of congenital heart lesions as a background to finding out if and how much treatment has improved outcomes
  
• Introduces and defines lesions, providing general information about its frequency, familial or syndromic associations, and associated congenital heart lesions
  
• Provides sections on pathological anatomy and physiology – important in determining outcomes
  
• Includes results of surgery, both in terms of survival and also in terms of event-free survival, that is, survival free of reoperation, cardiac failure, arrhythmias, and other late complications that are often seen
  
• Helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons understand what is likely to happen to patients with or without treatment, and which forms of treatment currently in use provide the best outcomes to date

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The field of cardiac catheterization for congenital heartdisease is nearing the end of a period of rapid expansion, change, anddiversification. Now is a good time to identify and assess many ofthese changes. This retrospective view serves more purposes thanself-congratulation: it allows a clearer prediction of where the fieldis likely to go, and how it gets there. The first and most obviouschange is the continued rapid growth of Catheter-directedinterventional procedures. A less dramatic but equally pervasive change has been the improvementin non-invasive diagnosis, primarily by ultrasound but increasinglyvia magnetic resonance imaging. A highly revolutionary change has beenthe consolidation and shrinkage of cardiologists who performinterventional procedures. Where will the next decade take the catheterizer and his or hercolleagues? Perhaps into catheter delivery of gene therapy to treatinherited myopathies or vasculopathies. Even likelier is the use ofcatheters to implant pulmonary valves made from a patient's owntissue. Likelier still will be the demise of film and the continuedemergence of the multimedia laboratory. Underlying the success of any and all of these changes will be acommitment to rigorous self-criticism and self-analysis. A renewedcommitment to these values is especially important at this time forthe field of diagnostic and interventional catheterization incongenital heart disease. ... Read more

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how wto do it yourself
this is a manual!!!!
if you are doing ped cath lab you MUST have it.
if you are learning...you can do anything without it ... Read more

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This book provides cardiologists with access to the wealth of imaging from the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London to enable them to improve on their own skills and refine their imaging technique. The authors correlate this echocardiography experience with the pathological and surgical aspects of congenital heart defects. They include a review of the pathologic, physiologic and surgical observations of different congenital diseases to assist in understanding the various echocardiographic presentations. The book contains large numbers of echocardiographic images.

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THIS BOOK PROVIDESA COMPREHENSIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE NATURAL AND MODIFIED HISTORY OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, FROM THE FETUS TO THE ADULT. This work is devoted to the discussion of outcomes, placed into a historical perspective.It reviews virtually all surgical and catheter-based strategies to enhance outcomes of all forms of congenitally malformed hearts.It analyses these outcomes by era, discussing those issues that were germane to evolving different therapeutic strategies.It discusses those complications of the various forms of therapies and identifies particular risk factors for mortality and morbidity.Much of the data is based on the cardiacrecords of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.These results are discussed in comparison to similar studies published from all the major institutions devoted to the care of neonates, infants and children with congenital heart disease.This work focuses on the morphology of the particular congenital cardiac abnormality as it influences outcomes; the genetics and mode of transmission, and most importantly fetal and post-natal outcome.

1.Focuses on morphology, genetics, and outcomes of congenital heart disease, both natural and modified, from the fetus to the adult

2.Discusses outcomes by era, reviewing in detail, evolving strategies to enhance outcomes and provides Kaplan-Meier curves for survival and freedom from re-intervention for most forms of congenital heart disease.Discusses in depth risk factors for adverse outcomes

3.Exhaustive in scope of topics covered and bibliography. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

One of the MUST READ books in pediatric cardiology!!!
This book gives a nice historical perspective of each of the common lesions a pediatric cardiologist faces in daily practice. It will take you through the morphology of each lesion, the diagnostic tools used, the available treatment options, the short-term and long-term outcomes, and survival curves.

Upon reading each chapter, you have a comprehensive understanding of why we manage certain diseases the way we do today. I think it's important to know what had been tried previously and what failed so that the field can continue to advance. If you want a book citing multicenter clinical trials and to tell you the advantages of an ACE-I over ARB in heart failure, this is not the book for you. However, if you want a read that will strengthen your true understanding of the cardiac conditions we treat and how we arrived to where we are today, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK. ***IF YOU ARE A PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY FELLOW, THIS IS A MUST READ***

Better than I thought at first... but still not good
The information contained in the book is somewhat interesting, and exhaustive in scope.It is best used as a "history book" without clinical applications.This is not how I interpreted the title and was hoping for more information about the natural course of CHD and how our approaches and diagnostic abilities have modified that.That being said, even with the "history book" approach, I think this is still a fair book (at best).There too many things to consider when putting together a book with such lofty goals of the title, and, perhaps it is impossible to actually achieve those goals.This book tries to be so comprehensive that it becomes incomprehensible.It is EXTREMELY confusing in the way it is presented.This detracts significantly from what you can actually get out of the book.Dr. Freedom clearly knows what he is talking about, but he could have found a much better way to convey it.
And last, but not least, with all due respect to Dr. Freedom, the editing in this book is AWFUL!!!Too many mistakes to count in EACH chapter, wrong diagrams/labels.This book would barely be passable if written by an individual who did not speak English as a primary language. ... Read more