Book Description
Congenital heart disease with its worldwide incidence of 1 0s 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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With nearly 2,700 angiocardiographic images, including over 300 superb diagrams, this text provides angiocardiographic and clinical references to almost every form of congenitally malformed hearts, both common and rare, and also provides angiocardiographic images of all of the newest surgical techniques. This wealth of clinical data is logically organized, meticulously indexed, and considerably enriched by an equally comprehensive text that goes well beyond the science of angiocardiography to consider such practical issues as management and outcome.

Destined to become a classic, Congenital Heart Disease: Textbook of Angiocardiography is sure to be of considerable value to every teaching and/or practicing paediatric and adult cardiologist, as well as cardiovascular surgeons, cardiac radiologists and cardiovascular pathologists worldwide. ... 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

Customer Reviews (4)

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

Product Description
Congenital malformations of the heart are often dismissed as a form of complex heart disease, which is too difficult to understand, and is best referred to the specialists. The authors of this handbook, however, aim to dispel this myth. The advent of cross-sectional and, more recently, three-dimensional echocardiography, enables the structural malformations to be visualised virtually non-invasively. Without a thorough understanding of the arrangement of cardiac structures, interpretation of these images can be very frustrating, not to mention having to cope with difficult terminology. Contrary to popular belief, however, the reader does not require any knowledge of cardiac embryology in order to understand the morphology of a malformed heart.This book takes the reader through the subject in a straightforward fashion, beginning with recognition of the normal cardiac chambers, progressing through the process of analysing the layout of the chambers in a sequential way, and then dealing with the more common cardiac defects in turn. Each chapter deals with the anatomical arrangement illustrated with diagrams and complemented with echocardiographic images of the most important cross-sections. The text is succinct, and is accompanied by numerous diagrams and cross-sectional echocardiographic images of the highest quality. The most common defects are described chapter by chapter, emphasising the salient anatomical features. ... Read more

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"The classic reference for those who wish to understand fully the pathophysiology of congenital heart disease" (The New England Journal of Medicine, review of previous edition).Thoroughly updated and revised, the 5th Edition provides detailed, state of the art coverage of all of the clinical features of unoperated congenital heart disease--from birth through adulthood.Readers will recognize the signs, symptoms, and clinical manifestations of malpositioned, malformed, or absent cardiovascular chambers, vessels, and values.Superb new illustrations enhance such areas as phonocardiology, electrocardiology, echocardiology, and morphology. ... Read more

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Complete information for specialists
I used this book during the preparation of my thesis. For this purpose, it was sometimes too detailed and complex. I think this book will be helpfull for congenital heart specialists, since all information is included for every heart defect, very well-organized. Every chapter on a certain malformation includes the history, physical appearance, auscultation, additional investigations and a clear summary. A lot of illustrations of ECG's or x-rays and pictures clarify the text. The book is (as the title says) specifically focussed on the clinical recognition of a malformation. For other purposes, such as studying longer-term outcome, the book does not provide the information. ... Read more

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The rapidly growing population of adults surviving with congenital heart lesions along with the success of interventional cardiology in the child and adolescent has spawned an incredible interest in adapting the technology for the adult congenital patients.

Dr. Mullins, a pioneer in this area, has written an outstanding reference which covers all aspects of performing diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures on patients of all ages.

This illustrated book details the equipment and techniques for performing safe and successful procedures, with a strong emphasis on avoiding complications. It also includes the requirements of a catheterization laboratory for congenital heart patients, as well as guidance for setting up and operating such a laboratory.

Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease serves as an essential manual for pediatric and adult interventional cardiologists worldwide. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

adress changed
I didnt get this book because of my adress changed
when is it coming to my new adress?

Mehmet Kaya, MD

needed for the book
this book is an excellent book for professional personel giving the opportunity for better performance. But the book needs alot of detailed images and graphs.

Precious Details
The most important wrote book about Catheterization on Congenital Heart Disease.
Dr Mullins's live experience in details.
Indispensable. ... Read more

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Written for pediatric cardiologists who want to specialize in interventional cardiology and need a step-by-step guide to carrying out procedures, this practical text is also aimed at adult cardiologists who want to learn more than just 'shooting for the coronaries'. Addressing this need, all kinds of interventions in congenital heart disease and the new field of 'structural heart disease' are covered, including · acquired valvular heart disease · post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defects · PFO closure · closure of the left atrial appendage · paravalvular leak closure · techniques to treat diseases of the aorta · hybrid procedures The only recent text on how to perform interventional cardiology for congenital heart disease in both the pediatric and adult patient, this expertly written work will help to overcome barriers between pediatric and adult cardiologists, and pave the way for a new specialist, the cardiovascular interventionalist.

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Congenital Diseases of the Heart: Clinical-Physiological Considerations, Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition represents the accumulated experiences of the author. Dr. Abraham M. Rudolph is recognized internationally as a leading contributor in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. Since the publication of the book's first edition in 1974, remarkable achievements in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques have been attained, making possible and necessary this thorough update of the work.

A uniquely important contribution of this new edition is the discussion of the hemodynamic and clinical features and their impact at various stages of development-from fetus to neonate to infant to child and adolescent. Due to the advent of prenatal ultrasound and Doppler flow studies, concepts of the influence of congenital cardiac lesions that were once based largely on conjecture can now be measured, compared, and quantified.

The book discusses congenital cardiac disorders from the perspective of the abnormal hemodynamics of the circulation, reviewing current concepts as well as controversial issues (such as the advisability of procedures for alleviating cardiac lesions in utero). The physiology of the fetal normal circulation is presented and the effects of congenital cardiac lesions are discussed with particular reference to the interactions between the lesions and fetal cardiovascular development. A list of carefully selected references offers further guidance to relevant literature.

Pediatric cardiologists, neonatologists, and pediatric intensive care physicians, as well as clinicians treating adult patients with congenital heart diseases, will find this updated classic to be useful, informative, and enlightening. ... Read more

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Exhaustive in its scope, this book provides a comprehensive study of the natural and modified history of congenital heart disease. Focusing particularly on the discussion of fetal and post-natal outcomes, the contributors seek to place developments in historical perspective. Virtually all surgical and catheter-based strategies to enhance outcomes of all forms of congenitally malformed heart are analysed, covering the morphology and genetic basis of each particular abnormality, and issues that were germane to evolving different therapeutic strategies. Using data from the records of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, contributors highlight the complications of the various forms of therapies and identifies particular risk factors for mortality and morbidity. ... 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

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This is the first book to deal exclusively with the problem of arrhythmia in patients with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) and provide state-of-the-art information on diagnosis and management.Written mainly by a panel of pediatric cardiologists and electrophysiologists, who also take care of adults with CHD, it bridges the gap between the management of pediatric and adult arrhythmias. The book opens with a general discussion of CHD and the cardiac electrical system before moving on to cover the pathogenesis of CHD and the mechanisms that underlie individual arrhythmias. Section Two deals with commonly encountered CHD sub-populations and the arrhythmias specific to these patients. The third section of the book deals with therapy, outlining all the various options available for management of these patients. ... Read more

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Developed to integrate cardiac anatomy with surgical repair by reviewing individual heart defects within an easy-to-follow reference format, A Practical Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease is designed to allow the reader to examine a congenitally malformed heart while referring to its anatomic and surgical description on a single page spread.

Book Description
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.

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. ... Read more

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Starting a Conversation was written specifically forparents, teachers, and all school personnel working with children withcongenital heart disease (CHD), but is also useful to anyone who would liketo learn about the ailment. The book encourages people to treat children inthis situation as children, rather than children with CHD — the dream ofthose living with the illness. In order to create the best schoolenvironment possible, teachers, school personnel, and parents need to worktogether and support one another. This book provides detailed, practicalsuggestions for the development of supportive relationships, which mayguide and enrich the lives of children with congenital heart disease.Often, it is just a matter of starting a conversation — hopefully thisbook can initiate that conversation.

Color illustrations by children with CHD included throughout. ... Read more

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OPTIMIZE ADULT PATIENT CARE WITH THIS WORLD-CLASS GUIDE TO THE BROAD 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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In this book Dr Edwards shares his vast experience in a discussion of the fundamental anatomy and physiology associated with congenital heart disease. The text provides succinct descriptions of the common and uncommon abnormalities of congenital heart disease and the principles underlying their treatment, while 200 figures clearly demonstrate and guide the user to understand the essential nature of the characteristic defects and abnormalities discussed. ... Read more

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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

Book Description
Drs. Bharati and Lev share the knowledge they've accumulated through the study of the pathology of congenital heart disease as seen in this century. Their detailed studies of over 6,300 congenitally malformed hearts give them a unique and comprehensive perspective on this topic. This monograph reports the results of their analyses and includes 2,700 excellent photographs. This book will be of significant interest to those working with or studying about congenital heart disease. This book will help clinicians and surgeons to diagnose congenital heart disease. Likewise, it offers protocol for correcting the lesions, nonsurgically and surgically. Concurrently, the text offers fertile ground for selective basic science specialities: genetics, immunology and molecular biology. Epidemiologists, statisticians and computer experts will want to review this book. ... Read more

Book Description
A number of books have been written relating to congenital heart disease, but generally, they reflect individualised medical management of local practice and philosophies. Although this book assumes a prior working knowledge of congenital heart disease, it aims to provide the reader with a reference guide to be utilised at the bedside.The main aspiration of this book is to provide a comprehensive, affordable guide for paediatric, neonatal and adult nurses of young people with congenital heart disease, in this highly challenging speciality. This book is primarily written for nursing staff focusing on a multidisciplinary team approach to managing children. It is also a valuable tool for community staff, dieticians, doctors, neonatal staff, perfusionists, pharmacists, physiological measurment technicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers, theatre staff, and other personnel who come into contact with this group of children. ... Read more

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Over the past 20 years, the use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has dramatically increased as the benefits of this imaging approach have been recognized. Initially used primarily in the operating room by anesthesiologists, the technique has evolved into a diagnostic and monitoring modality frequently used by cardiologists, anesthesiologists and surgeons in patients with heart disease, both in the outpatient and inpatient setting. Accompanying this growth, a number of textbooks have been written about TEE, primarily in the adult setting, and focusing almost exclusively on "adult" forms of heart disease (i.e coronary artery, aortic and valvular heart disease, and cardiomyopathy). During the past decade, refinements in TEE probe technology have also enabled application of this technique for the evaluation of congenital and acquired heart disease in infants and childrenmainly as an intraoperative tool, and employed primarily by pediatric cardiologists and anesthesiologists. However, comparatively little educational material (in the form of textbooks or manuals) is available regarding the use of TEE in congenital heart disease (CHD).

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Cardiac catheterization has long been a central diagnostic modality in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and adults with congenital heart disease, and in children with acquired heart disease. Over the past two decades, transcatheter interventions have become equally important in the treatment of pediatric and congenital heart disease. Some transcatheter therapies have become established as the standard of care for congenital cardiovascular anomalies previously managed surgically, others serve to supplement surgery in the integrated management of complex lesions, and still others are in their infancy, as pediatric interventional cardiology continues to advance in step with the broader field of pediatric cardiovascular medicine.

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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