Pediatric Cardiology

<p>Caring for children with heart disease is extremely complex, requiring a different and often tailor-made approach compared with adults with similar cardiac problems.</p> <p>Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team, <b>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</b> provides a unique, concise and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children.</p> <p>From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-ray – the basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concern – it goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.</p> <p>New to this edition you’ll find:</p> <ul> <li>An enhanced section on imaging including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography.</li> <li>New techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations.</li> <li>Much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations.</li> <li>Expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, neonatal screening for congenital heart disease, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome.</li> <li>Expanded and updated congestive cardiac failure section, including the latest in genetic and metabolic causes of heart failure, and medical/surgical treatment options; discussion of bridging therapies; essentials of transplantation, including common drug treatment regimens, clinical recognition of treatment complications and rejection, outcomes, morbidity and survival.</li> </ul> <p>In addition, every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC and ESC.</p> <p><b>Pediatric Cardiology: The Essential Pocket Guide</b>, 3^rd edition, is quite simply a must-have guide for all members of the multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease.</p>