Main description:

Based on Dr. Driscoll's thirty years of successful bedside teaching at the Mayo Clinic, Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology is the ideal textbook for residents in pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric and adult cardiology. This concise, well-organized, and easy-to-understand text can be read cover-to-cover during a pediatric cardiology rotation and focuses sharply on what primary care physicians need to know for initial evaluation and management of patients.

Dr. Driscoll explains the many types of congenital heart defects, focusing on the most frequent cardiac problems in infants, children, and adolescents. Emphasis is on use of new diagnostic tools in conjunction with the physical examination.

Contents:

Cardiovascular Physiology

Clinical Evaluation
History
Physical Examination

Basic Diagnostic Studies
Electrocardiography
Radiography
Echocardiography
Cardiac Catheterization

Exercise Physiology

Innocent Murmurs

Chest Pain

Syncope and Sudden Death

Principles of Inheritance and Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease

Left-to-Right Shunts
Introduction
Atrial Septal Defects
Ventricular Septal Defects
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Atrioventricular Septal Defects
Truncus Arteriosus
Aorticopulmonary Window
Arteriovenous Fistulae

Right-to-Left Shunts
Introduction
Transposition of the Great Arteries
Tetralogy of Fallot and Pulmonary Atresia with VSD
Truncus Arteriosus
Tricuspid Atresia
Univentricular Heart
The Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Ebstein Anomaly
Pulmonary Atresia and Intact Ventricular Septum
Totally Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Shock

Obstructive and Regurgitant Lesions
Aortic Stenosis and Insufficiency
Pulmonary Stenosis and Insufficiency
Coarctation of the Aorta
Mitral Stenosis and Insufficiency

Acquired Heart Disease
Rheumatic Fever and Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki Disease
Infective Endocarditis

Cardiomyopathy

Coronary Artery Anomalies