Pediatric Cardiology Updates, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997

Recent advances have revolutionized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in pediatric cardiology. Powerful new diagnostic techniques include color Doppler echocardiography, computerized tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. Catheter-directed treatment of cardiac lesions with balloons and stents has become the treatment of choice, and cardiac arrhythmias in infancy and childhood are treated with radio-frequency ablation. To provide an update on these and other recent developments, the First Asian-Pacific Symposium on Pediatric Cardiology was held in Taipei in November 1994, attended by pediatricians, cardiologists, and surgeons, many of them of world renown. This book, a collection of the papers presented at the symposium, will contribute to improved recognition, understanding, and treatment of many important congenital and acquired heart problems in children. It will be of special interest to pathologists, pediatricians, cardiologists, and surgeons whose work involves care of infants and children with heart disease.

The Diagnostic Approach to Single Ventricle.- The Diagnostic Approach to Double-Outlet Right Ventricle.- Diagnostic Approach to Hypoplastic Right Heart and Pulmonary Atresia: Invasive and Noninvasive.- The Diagnostic Approach to Truncus Arteriosus: Medical Aspects.- Transposition of the Great Arteries: Coronary Artery Anatomy.- Balloon Angioplasty of Pulmonary Artery Following Arterial Switch Operation for Complete Transposition of the Great Arteries.- Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum: Right Ventricular and Coronary Artery Anatomy.- The Anatomy of the Ventricles and of the Atrioventricular Valves in Single Ventricle.- Ventricular Septation and Fontan Procedures for the Univentricular Heart.- The Future of Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus: Long-Term Study of 368 Procedures.- Intravascular Stents in Congenital Heart Lesions.- Cardiovascular Problems in Kawasaki Disease.- Surgical Treatment of Coronary Artery Lesions in Kawasaki Disease.- Ventricular Arrhythmias After Corrective Surgery of Tetralogy of Fallot.- Arrhythmias in Left Isomerism.- Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias in Children.- Lessons from the Recent Outbreaks of Rheumatic Fever in the United States.- Should the Gold Standard of Monthly Benzathine Penicillin Prophylaxis for Rheumatic Fever Be Modified?.- Surgery of Valvular Heart Disease: An Update.- Prevention of Infective Endocarditis: Reconsidering the Facts in the 1990s.- Surgery of Pediatric Infective Endocarditis: An Update.