Neonatal Cardiology - 9780071635790

A full-color guide to understanding, evaluating, and treating heart disease in fetuses and newborns

Neonatal Cardiology is the go-to guide for pediatricians and neonatologists needing a direct, practical course in the evaluation and management of newborns with heart disease and other cardiac functional abnormalities. The book opens with discussions of basic aspects of embryology of the heart, and an overview of normal and abnormal muscle function and circulation. From there, the physician is led through the clinical assessment of patients with an array of cardiac abnormalities, including cyanosis, irregular blood flow, inadequate systemic perfusion, cardiomyopathies, and dysrhythmias. Management and treatment follow, beginning with a basic chapter on the principles of medical management, and followed by drug therapy and post-operative care. Neonatal Cardiology closes with a needed chapter on counseling families.

Features

• NEW chapter on affected brain development
• NEW content on catheter-based interventions in fetal patients, genetics and malformation syndromes, fetal echocardiography, patent ductus arteriosus, andcardiovascular genetics and the implications for genetic testing and counseling
• Full-color design with new radiographic images and explanatory illustrations of normal and abnormal anatomy, blood flow patterns, and the effects of various treatment options
• Suggested readings at the end of each chapter for more in-depth study

Authoritative content you won't find in any other resource:
Chapter 1. Molecular and Morphogenetic Cardiac Embryology: Implications for Congentical Heart Disease; Chapter 2. Regulation of Myocyte Contraction and Relaxation; Chapter 3. Perinatal Cardiovascular Physiology; Chapter 4. Prenatal Evaluation and Management; Chapter 5. Initial Evaluation of the Newborn with Suspected Cardiovascular Disease; Chapter 6. Approach to the Cyanotic Infant; Chapter 7. Approach to the Newborn with Excessive Pulmonary Blood Flow; Chapter 8. Approach to the Newborn with Inadequate Systemic Perfusion; Chapter 9. Cardiomyopathies; Chapter 10. Common Dysrhythmias; Chapter 11. Principles of Medical Management; Chapter 12. Cardiovascular Drug Therapy; Chapter 13. Principles of Postoperative Care; Chapter 14. Brain Development and Resulting Cardiac Outcomes; Chapter 15. Counseling Familes Based on Etiology and Epidemiology