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Starting a Conversation was written specifically for parents, teachers, and all school personnel working with children with congenital heart disease (CHD), but is also useful to anyone who would like to learn about the ailment. The book encourages people to treat children in this situation as children, rather than children with CHD — the dream of those living with the illness. In order to create the best school environment possible, teachers, school personnel, and parents need to work together and support one another. This book provides detailed, practical suggestions for the development of supportive relationships, which may guide and enrich the lives of children with congenital heart disease. Often, it is just a matter of starting a conversation — hopefully this book can initiate that conversation.

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

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Excellent book
My child is 7 and in 2nd grade already.I wish I would have bought this before he started school.I learned a lot (I thought I knew almost everything I needed to know,) about how to talk with your child's teacher and what to expect from the school.After reading the book I donated it to our school so that my son's teachers can read the book before he starts a new year and can better understand what we as a family and he as a heart child is going through. ... Read more

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(Churchill Livingstone) Univ. of Washington, Seattle. Text features a practical orientation, organization by age and presenting symptom and sign, severity evaluation as well as diagnosis, and illustration sequences from a single patient. Echocardiographic images do not have structures labeled. Abundant images and illustrations. DNLM: Heart Defects, Congenital--embryology. ... Read more

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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has gained wide acceptance as a new diagnostic technique in adult acquired heart disease because of its relatively non-invasive nature and its high image quality compared with transthoracic echocardiography. With the introduction of smaller transesophageal probes, the use of TEE to display cardiac anatomy and assess surgical repair in infants and children with complex congenital heart disease has become possible. This new book provides an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the procedure. It will be invaluable to all paediatric cardiologists and adult cardiologists who wish to use TEE in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with congenital heart disease. It will also be of interest to cardiac surgeons and anaesthetists who use TEE in the perioperative period. ... Read more

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Recent advances in non-invasive techniques have brought about rapid progress in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease. Angiocardiography provides a complete picture of the cavities and vessels of the heart, enabling congenital malformations to be easily identified, and the course of management charted. In this book, a selection of excellent angiocardiograms are used to illustrate an integrated approach to the diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease. The text is comprehensive, concise and readable and deals with both the common and rarer disorders of the heart. ... Read more

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Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Sections cover basic principles (introductory concepts, specific tachycardias, and bradycardias), catheter and device therapy, and evolving issues. For residents and practitioners. Halftone illustrations. DNLM: Arrhythmia--Adolescence. ... Read more

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Prominent researchers and clinicians describe in detail all the latest laboratory techniques currently used to define the molecular genetic basis for congenital malformations of the heart, cardiomyopathies, cardiac tumors, and arrythmias in human patients. In particular, the methods can be used to identify in clinical samples those genetic mutations responsible for such congenital abnormalities as Marfan syndrome, Williams-Beuren Syndrome, Alagille syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and Friedreich ataxia. The authors also discuss the limitations of identifying patients with congenital heart disease using these techniques during both pre- and postnatal periods. ... Read more

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Finally, a pacing book dedicated to the adult patient with CHD. Drawing on their vast experience, Drs. Mond and Karpawich join forces to show you what to do, how to do it, and what to avoid.

Building on more than 60 years of device therapy Pacing Options in the Adult Patient with Congenital Heart Disease leads you through the many congenital heart defects now seen in adults. This essential resource:

• Describes the various anatomical characteristics of repaired and non-repaired congenital heart defects and compares these with the normal anatomy, allowing you to easily identify the differences
  
• Guides you through the implant techniques, highlighting the specific problems that might be encountered and providing proven techniques to overcome technically difficult anatomical variations in patients with and without congenital heart disease

Throughout the book, schematic diagrams of the diverse anatomy of the congenital heart support the textual descriptions, and x-rays and fluoroscopic images illustrate the physiology and maximize understanding. ... Read more

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Royal Brompton Hospital, London, U.K. Concise text for cardiologists and family practitioners on the special aspects of managing congenital heart disease in adults. Takes the approach that these adults can't be treated as large children with congenital disease. ... Read more

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This book discusses past and present research on the etiology and morphogenesis of congenital heart disease, from the molecular level of genotype to the outward physical manifestation of the patient's symptoms.In eight main sections and 67 chapters, the genetics, symmetry, and molecular interaction of the early stages of heart formations are described; structural formation and external factors affecting form and function are explored, and specific syndromes are analyzed.

Fundamental principles of the earliest stages of cardiovasculogenesis are being clarified at the molecular/cellular level, while advances in precise genotypic diagnosis, combined with better phenotypic assessment, are leading to conceptual changes in the management of congenital heart disease.Although much remains to be learned about genotypic-phenotypic correlations, it is clear that the clinical implications of such understandings are bound to have deep and far-reaching benefits.

Cardiologists and pediatric cardiologists, cardiovascular researchers, human geneticists, molecular biologists, and pathologists will all find their understanding of congenital heart disease increased by this extensive, well-written examination. ... Read more