Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care.

For over 25 years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult congenital heart surgeons, pediatric and congenital cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents and nurses.

Now, in this thoroughly revised fourth edition, you again get trusted, complete coverage of the field with timely new features and expert reviews of critical topics including heart transplantation, emerging modalities for diagnosing congenital heart and tracheal defects, the surgical technique of Fontan conversion with arrhythmia surgery, the medical challenges of managing adult CHD patients, and more.

This new edition includes:

Contributions from over 65 world-renowned experts
More beautiful illustrations, by renowned medical illustrator Rachid Idriss, which have brought acclaim to previous editions
Reviews of the embryology, physical findings, diagnostic criteria, and therapeutic choices for each disease entity and describes the latest in surgical techniques in each chapter
All-new chapters that guide readers through new treatment options and other key developments since the publication of the third edition highlighting recent advances in congenital heart surgery.
All-new new chapters that review advances in right ventricular to pulmonary artery conduits, arrhythmia surgery, double outlet ventricles, and adult congenital heart disease, among other key topics.

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Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
CHAPTER 1: Development of the Heart and Great Vessels
CHAPTER 2: Nomenclature and Classification of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
CHAPTER 3: Physiology of the Fetal and Neonatal Circulations and Fetal Cardiac Surgery
CHAPTER 4: Preoperative Diagnostic Evaluation
CHAPTER 5: Hybrid Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease
CHAPTER 6: Anesthesia for the Patient with Congenital Heart Disease
CHAPTER 7: Perioperative Care
CHAPTER 8: The Nurse Practitioner’s Role in Patient Management
CHAPTER 9: Palliative Operations
CHAPTER 10: Management of Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass
CHAPTER 11: Intraoperative Myocardial Protection
CHAPTER 12: Patent Ductus Arteriosus
CHAPTER 13: Vascular Rings and Pulmonary Artery Sling
CHAPTER 14: Coarctation of the Aorta
CHAPTER 15: Interrupted Aortic Arch
CHAPTER 16: Atrial Septal Defect, Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection, and Scimitar Syndrome
CHAPTER 17: Ventricular Septal Defect
CHAPTER 18: Atrioventricular Canal Defects
CHAPTER 19: Truncus Arteriosus
CHAPTER 20: Aortopulmonary Window and Aortic Origin of a Pulmonary Artery
CHAPTER 21: Isolated Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
CHAPTER 22: Tetralogy of Fallot
CHAPTER 23: Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect
CHAPTER 24: Ventricular to Pulmonary Artery Conduits
CHAPTER 25: Double-Outlet Ventricles
CHAPTER 26: Transposition of the Great Arteries
CHAPTER 27: Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
CHAPTER 28: The Functionally Univentricular Heart and Fontan’s Operation
CHAPTER 29: Ebstein Anomaly
CHAPTER 30: Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
CHAPTER 31: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
CHAPTER 32: Aortico-Left Ventricular Tunnel
CHAPTER 33: Congenital Anomalies of the Mitral Valve
CHAPTER 34: Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection
CHAPTER 35: Cor Triatriatum Sinister, Pulmonary Vein Stenosis, Atresia of the Common Pulmonary Vein, and Cor Triatriatum Dexter
CHAPTER 36: Anomalous Systemic Venous Connections
CHAPTER 37: Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm
CHAPTER 38: Coronary Artery Anomalies
CHAPTER 39: Cardiac Tumors
CHAPTER 40: Diseases of the Pericardium
CHAPTER 41: Surgical Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias
CHAPTER 42: Heart Transplantation
CHAPTER 43: Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation
CHAPTER 44: Infective Endocarditis
CHAPTER 45: Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support
CHAPTER 46: Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Index
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