Full Description
"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect covers the most recent knowledge, methodologies, and techniques for diagnosing, managing, and treating pediatric patients with the "functionally" single ventricle congenital heart defect. The book covers epidemiology, ethnicity, racial issues, socioeconomic factors, fetal diagnosis, interventions, various treatment options available to pediatric patients, currently obtainable outcomes, and rescue plans after failure of conventional managements. In addition, it offers the potential for a wide range of future studies. Clinicians and researchers alike will find this title to be an invaluable one-stop resource for improving outcomes of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect.
Contents
1. Definition and terminology
2. Epidemiology
3. Genetics
4. Morphology
5. Associated cardiac and non-cardiac malformations
6. Fetal diagnosis
7. Ethical implications of fetal diagnosis
8. Fetal interventions
9. Fetal brain damages
10. Post-natal diagnosis
11. Pathophysiology
12. Neonatal care
13. Required diagnostic information for decision-making
14. Anesthesia
15. Interventional cardiology procedures
16. Surgical procedures, including neonatal palliations, hybrid procedures, bidirectional Glenn and variations, Fontan completion, biventricular repair
17. Peri-operative management
18. Interstage monitoring
19. Required post-operative diagnostic information
20. Fontan failure, with Fontan take-down and conversion, and mechanical circulatory support
21. Transplantation, including heart, heart and lung, heart and liver
22. Exercise
23. Pregnancy
24. Adolescents and adults without Fontan completion
25. Psychological aspects
26. Role of the families
27. Neurodevelopmental outcomes
28. Management in low-income countries
29. Comparative medicine
30. Future studies
