Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Congenital Heart Disease

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.

Spis treści:
List of Contributors.
Foreword.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I Overview.
1 Pediatric Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease as it Relates to Ventricular Function and Blood Flow.
2 Ventricular Function—The Basics of the Discipline.
3 Blood Flow—The Basics of the Discipline.
4 History and Physical Examination.
5 Plain Radiographic Examination of the Heart and Chest.
6 Cardiac Catheterization.
Part II Techniques in Assessing Ventricular Function.
7 Echocardiography and Doppler Ultrasound.
8 Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
9 Cardiology and Positron Emission Tomography.
10 Exercise Testing.
Part III Ventricular Function in Specific Categories.
11 Ventricular Function in Pressure Overload Lesions.
12 Ventricular Function in Volume Overload Lesions.
13 The Right Ventricle in a Dual Chambered Circulation.
14 The Left Ventricle i n a Dual Chambered Circulation.
15 Blood Flow in the Normal and Diseased Aorta.
16 Blood Flow in Normal and Diseased Pulmonary Arteries.
17 Considerations in the Single Ventricle.
18 Exercise Performance in Fontan Patients.
19 Considerations in Intensive Care.
Part IV Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Specific Categories.
20 Considerations in Catheter Interventions.
21 Pharmacology and Ventricular Performance.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
Dr. Mark A. Fogel, MD, FACC, FAAP. Assistant Professor of Cardiology and Radiology, Director of Cardiac MRI Research, The Children′s Hospital of Philadelphia

Okładka tylna:
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.