Main description:

There is an evident practice gap in education of general adult cardiologists on long-term management of congenital heart disease (CHD). The goal of this book is to help general cardiologists, but also pediatricians and related care providers in the management and diagnosis of adult CHD.

Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Clinical Practice provides clear, practical advice on adult CHD for the busy fellow, resident and practicing clinician. It includes training and revision material to assist learning and is formatted in such a way as to provide short, concise content designed for easy recall of salient facts.

Contents:

General Introductory Principles.- Terminology: Cardiac position, chamber morphology and Van Prague nomenclature.- Dextrocardias.- Shunt Lesions.- General Principles of shunt lesions.- Atrial Septal.- Defects and Sinus Venosus Defects.- Ventricular Septal Defects.- Atrioventricular Canal Type Defects.- Patent Ductus Arteriosus.- Miscellaneous Lesions.- Pulmonary Hypertension and Eisenmenger Physiology.- Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava.- Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.- Left Heart Obstructive Lesions.- Cor Triatriatum.- Congenital Mitral Stenosis.- Subaortic Stenosis.- Congenital Aortic Stenosis.- Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis.- Coarctation of the Aorta and Shone's Complex.- Right Heart Obstructive Lesions.- Valvular Pulmonary Stenosis.- Supravalvular Pulmonary Stenosis.- Subvalvular Pulmonary Stenosis.- Double Chamber Right Ventricle.- Conotruncal Abnormalities.- Double Outlet Right Ventricle.- Tetralogy of Fallot.- Truncus Arteriosus.- D Looped Transposition of the Great Arteries.- L Looped or Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries.- Other Complex Lesions.- Ebstein's Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve.- Univentricular Heart and Fontan Palliation.- Left Ventricular Non-Compaction.- Genetic Thoracic Aortic Syndromes.- Coronary Abnormalities.- Congenital Coronary Artery Anomalies.- Kawasaki's Disease.- Principles in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.- Advanced Cardiac Imaging in ACHD.- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in ACHD.- Obesity and Exercise Restriction in ACHD.- Endocarditis Prophylaxis in ACHD.- Pregnancy in ACHD.- Heart Failure in ACHD.- Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in ACHD.