Full Description
As pediatric cardiology becomes more and more neonatal cardiology and even fetal cardiology, Neonatal Heart Disease by Robert M. Freedom, MO, Leland N. Benson, MD, and Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, MB is extraordinarily timely. Neonatal Heart Disease consists of 50 chapters by 25 distinguished contributors and is a worthy successor to The Neonate With Congenital Heart Disease by Richard D. Rowe, MD and his colleagues (1968 and 1981). The first ‾dition of this book in 1968 established Richard D. Rowe, MD as the father of neonatal cardiology. As most pediatric cardiologists now know, Dick Rowe died on January 18, 1988 after a brief illness. It will therefore come as no surprise that the present volume is dedicated to this great and gentle man. Nor will it come as a surprise that I have been asked to devote this Foreword to Richard D. Rowe, MD, pioneering neonatal cardiologist and incomparable personal friend. What can one say about Dick Rowe? Well, there are at least two very different tales. There is Dick Rowe the public man -the factual account of Dick Rowe's achievements as a physician, educator, and research man - the Dick Rowe that virtually "everyone" knows. And then there is Dick Rowe the private man -the extraordinary human being who only his personal friends were privileged to know. I shall try to tell something of both stories. First, the public man - the factual account - is really quite amazing.
Contents
1 General Considerations.- 1 Etiology of Congenital Heart Disease.- 2 Cardiovascular Malformations: Prevalence at Livebirth.- 3 Trends in Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease: The Toronto Experience.- 4 Developmental Biology of Mammalian Myocardium.- 5 Developmental Biology of the Pulmonary Vascular Bed.- 6 Developmental Biology of Specialized Conduction Tissue.- 7 Physical Examination of the Cardiovascular System of the Neonate.- 8 The Electrocardiogram of the Neonate.- 9 Imaging of the Neonate with Congenital Heart Disease.- 10 The Segmental Approach to Congenital Heart Disease.- 11 Echocardiography and the Neonate with Real or Suspected Heart Disease.- 12 The Transitional Circulation.- 13 The Clinical Diagnostic Approach in Congenital Heart Disease.- 2 Specific Conditions.- 14 Transposition of the Great Arteries.- 15 Tetralogy of Fallot.- 16 Pulmonary Atresia and Ventricular Septal Defect.- 17 Tetralogy of Fallot with "Absent" Pulmonary Valve.- 18 Tricuspid Atresia.- 19 Pulmonary Atresia and Intact Ventricular Septum.- 20 Anomalies of Pulmonary Venous Connections Including Cor Triatriatum and Stenosis of Individual Pulmonary Veins.- 21 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.- 22 Aortic Stenosis.- 23 Coarctation of the Aorta.- 24 Interruption of the Aortic Arch.- 25 Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries.- 26 Anomalies of Aortopulmonary Septation: Persistent Truncus Arteriosus, Aortopulmonary Septal Defect, and Hemitruncus Arteriosus.- 27 Double-Outlet Right Ventricle.- 28 Ebstein's Malformation of the Tricuspid Valve.- 29 Anomalies of Systemic Venous Connections, Persistence of the Right Venous Valve and Silent Cardiovascular Causes of Cyanosis.- 30 Hearts with a Univentricular Atrioventricular Connection.- 31 Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.- 32 Syndromes of Right or Left Atrial Isomerism.- 33 Double-Outlet Left Ventricle; Isolated Atrioventricular Discordance; Anatomically Corrected Malposition of the Great Arteries; and Syndrome of Juxtaposition of the Atrial Appendages.- 34 Ventricular Septal Defect.- 35 Patent Ductus Arteriosus.- 36 Atrioventricular Septal Defect.- 37 Atrial Septal Defect.- 38 Pulmonary Valve Stenosis, Pulmonary Arterial Stenosis, and Isolated Right Ventricular Hypoplasia.- 39 Supero-Inferior Ventricles, Criss-Cross Atrioventricular Connections and the Straddling Atrioventricular Valve.- 40 Congenital Valvular Regurgitation.- 41 Myocardial Disorders.- 42 Cardiac Neoplasms.- 43 Rings, Slings, and Other Things: Vascular Structures Contributing to a Neonatal "Noose".- 44 Cardiac Malpositions Including Ectopia Cordis and Congenital Pericardial Defect.- 45 Arteriovenous Fistulae: a Consideration of Extracardiac Causes of Congestive Heart Failure.- 46 Conjoined Thoracopagus Twins.- 47 Disorders of Heart Rate and Rhythm.- 48 Fetal Echocardiography.- 49 Interventional Cardiac Catheterization in Neonates.- 50 Glossary of Congenital Cardiac Operations.
