Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Michael A. Gatzoulis; Gary D. Webb

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ISBN-13: 9780443071034
ISBN-10: 0443071039
Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Pub Date: 10/2003
Edition Number: 1

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This practical resource provides essential guidance on the anatomic issues, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and clinical management of adults with congenital heart disease. Each consistently structured, disease-oriented chapter discusses incidence, genetics, morphology, presentation, investigation and imaging, treatment, and intervention. A wealth of illustrations�including line drawings, EKGs, X-rays, and echocardiograms�clearly depict the clinical manifestations of congenital defects.

Key Features

* Includes information on all treatment and management options�both surgical and nonsurgical.
* Covers the full range of common and uncommon congenital problems.
* Features a chapter on morphology from the Royal Brompton Hospital as well as a chapter on clinical assessment written by renowned expert Joseph Perloff, MD.
* Discusses hot topics such as Eisenmenger's Syndrome and diseases of the tricuspid valve.
* Uses a wealth of illustrations to aid in the diagnosis and recognition of a full range of disorders.
* Covers long-term outcomes, including the management of the pregnant patient and the patient undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
* Summarizes the benefits and risks of surgical procedures, catheter interventions, and drug therapy.

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Section 1 ? General Principles
1 Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: A Growing
Population
Michael A. Gatzoulis and Gary D. Webb
2 Cardiac Morphology and Nomenclature
Siew Yen Ho
3 Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: A Genetic
Perspective
Glenn L. Renforth and David I. Wilson
4 Clinical Assessment
Joseph K. Perloff
5 Echocardiography
Judith Therrien
6 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Philip J. Kilner
7 Catheter Interventions in Adult Patients with
Congenital Heart Disease
Chetan Varma, Peter R. McLaughlin and Lee Benson
8 Late Repair and Reoperations in Adults with
Congenital Heart Disease
Darryl F. Shore
9 Venous Shunts and the Fontan Circulation in
Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Constantine Mavroudis, Carl L. Backer and
Barbara J. Deal
10 Late Complications Following The Fontan
Procedure
Robert M. Freedom, Jia Li and Shi-Joon Yoo
11 Heart and Lung Transplantation in Adults with
Congenital Heart Disease
Steven A. Webber and Frank A. Pigula
12 Non-Cardiac Surgery in Adults with Congenital Heart
Disease
Jack M. Colman
13 Arrhythmia in Adults with Congenital Heart
Disease
Louise Harris and Seshadri Balaji
14 Invasive Electrophysiology and Pacing
Thomas Paul, Andrew D. Blaufox and J. Philip Saul
15 Infective Endocarditis
Wei Li
16 Pregnancy and Contraception
Heidi M. Connolly and Carole A. Warnes
17 Exercise and Training
Erik Thaulow and Per Morten Fredriksen
18 Insurability of Adults with Congenital
Heart Disease
Gordon Cumming

Section 2 ? Septal Defects
19 Atrial Septal Defect
Michael L. Rigby
20 Ventricular Septal Defect
Sanjay Prasad
21 Atrioventricular Septal Defect: Complete and Partial
(Ostium Primum Atrial Septal Defect)
Elliot A. Shinebourne and Siew Yen Ho

Section 3 ? Diseases of the Mitral Valve
22 Cor Triatiratum and Mitral Stenosis
Daniel Murphy
23 Mitral Valve Prolapse, Mitral Regurgitation
W Budts and Marc Gewillig
24 Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous
Connection and the Scimitar Syndrome
Michael Vogel

Section 4 ? Diseases of the Left Ventricular Outflow
Tract
25 Valvar Aortic Stenosis
M. Elizabeth Brickner
26 Sub-Valvar and Supra Valvar Aortic Stenosis
Fiona Walker
27 Aortic Regurgitation
Michael Mullen
28 Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysms
Lorna Swan

Section 5 ? Diseases of the Aorta
29 Patent Arterial Duct and Aortopulmonary
Window
Stella V. Brili and Pavlos Toutouzas
30 Aortic Coarctation and Interrupted Aortic
Arch
Harald Kaemmerer
31 Common Arterial Trunk
Michael Connelly
32 Tracheoesophageal compression in Congenital
Heart Disease: Vascular Rings, Pulmonary Slings
and Other Vascular Abnormalities
Dominic Abrams, Leon Gerlis and Piers Daubeney

Section 6 ? Diseases of the Tricuspid Valve
33 Ebstein?s Anomaly
Lars Sondergaard and Seamus Cullen
34 Tricuspid Stenosis and Regurgitation
Naser M. Ammash

Section 7 ? Diseases of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract
35 Pulmonary Stenosis
Annie Dore
36 Double Chambered Right Ventricle
Doff B. McElhinney and Elizabeth Goldmuntz

Section 8 ? Cyanotic conditions
37 Tetralogy of Fallot
Michael A. Gatzoulis
38 Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect
Isabelle Vonder Muhll and Babulal Sethial
39 The Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
Robert M. Freedom and Jennifer Russell
40 Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum
Piers Daubeney

41 Transposition of the Great Arteries
Tim Hornung
42 Eisenmenger?s Syndrome
Erwin Oechslin
43 Congenitally Corrected Transposition
Thomas P. Graham Jr
44 Double-outlet Right Ventricle
Glen S. van Arsdell

Section 9 ? Univentricular Hearts
45 Double-inlet Ventricle
Nancy C. Poirier and Michael A. Gatzoulis
46 Atrioventricular Valve Atresia
Sara Thorne
47 Isomerism (Heterotaxia)
Gunnar Norgard and Ansgar Berg

Section 10 ? Coronary artery abnormalities
48 Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries
Richard Liberthson
49 Kawasaki?s Disease
Koichiro Niwa and Shigeru Tateno

Section 11 ? Other Lesion s
50 Mycarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Rajiv Chatuverdi
51 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Paul Sorajja and Rick A. Nishimura
52 Constrictive pericarditis and Restrictive
Cardiomyopathy
Folkert J. Meijboom
53 Rheumatic Fever
Dennis V. Cokkinos
54 Cardiac Tumours
Periklis A. Davlouros and Ageliki A. Karatza
55 Marfan Syndrome: A Cardiovascular Perspective
Gary D. Webb and Tirone E. David
56 Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
Ghada W. Mikhail and Magdi H. Yacoub

Glossary
Jack M. Colman, Erwin Oechslin and Dylan Taylor

Index