Advances in diagnosing and treating congenital heart disease, through cardiac medicine as well as surgery, have allowed many children, who formerly would have died, to survive through childhood and in many cases into adulthood. As a result, cardiologists are spending an increasing amount of time treating such patients, both children and adults, and consequently there is a real need for up-to-date and comprehensive information on this rapidly evolving area.

The extensively revised and fully-updated new edition of this classic text continues to provide unparalleled guidance on all of the clinical features of unoperated congenital heart disease, from birth through to adulthood. Written by a world-renowned authority on congenital heart disease, it offers complete coverage of the signs, symptoms and clinical manifestations of malpositioned, malformed or absent cardiovascular chambers, vessels and valves - using traditional as well as state-of-the-art technology .

What's New

New chapter on Congenital Abnormalities of the Pericardium
Expanded material on genetics and developmental biology
Discussion of hot topics such as Ebstein's Anomoly of the Tricuspid Valve
Over 1,200 illustrations - all either new or reworked - enabling clear visualization and recognition of malformations.-

Contents

1. Introduction: Formulation of the Problem
2. Normal or Innocent Murmurs
3. The Cardiac Malpositions
4. Isolated Congenital Complete Heart Block
5. Congenital Abnormalities of the Pericardium
6. Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
7. Congenital Aortic Stenosis: Congenital Aortic Regurgitation
8. Coarctation of the Aorta
9. Congenital Obstruction to Left Atrial Flow Mitral Stenosis, Cor Triatriatum, Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
10. Endocardial Fibroelastosis
11. Congenital Pulmonary Stenosis
12. Congenital Pulmonary Valve Regurgitation
13. Ebstein's Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve
14. Primary Pulmonary Hypertensions
15. Atrial Septal Defect: Simple and Complex
16. Pulmonary Stenosis with Interatrial Communication
17. Ventricular Septal Defect
18. Ventricular Septal Defect with Pulmonary Stenosis
19. Double Outlet Ventricle
20. Patent Ductus Arteriosus
21. Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Trunk
22. Congenital Coronary Arterial Fistula
23. Congenital Aneurysms of the Sinuses of Valsalva
24. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum
25. Tricuspid Atresia
26. The Univetricular Heart
27. Complete Transposition of the Great Arteries
28. Truncus Arteriousus
29. Congenital Anomalies of the Vena Caval Connection
30. Congenital Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula
31. Hypoplastic Left Heart
32. Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Circulation.