Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care.
For over 25 years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult congenital heart surgeons, pediatric and congenital cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents and nurses.
Now, in this thoroughly revised fourth edition, you again get trusted, complete coverage of the field with timely new features and expert reviews of critical topics including heart transplantation, emerging modalities for diagnosing congenital heart and tracheal defects, the surgical technique of Fontan conversion with arrhythmia surgery, the medical challenges of managing adult CHD patients, and more.
This new edition includes:
Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care.
For over 25 years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult congenital heart surgeons, pediatric and congenital cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents and nurses.
Now, in this thoroughly revised fourth edition, you again get trusted, complete coverage of the field with timely new features and expert reviews of critical topics including heart transplantation, emerging modalities for diagnosing congenital heart and tracheal defects, the surgical technique of Fontan conversion with arrhythmia surgery, the medical challenges of managing adult CHD patients, and more.
This new edition includes:
List of Contributors vii
Preface xiii
Chapter 1 Development of the Heart and Great Vessels 1
Peter J. Gruber Andy Wessels and Steven W. Kubalak
Chapter 2 Nomenclature and Classification of Pediatric and
Congenital Heart Disease 27
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Chapter 3 Physiology of the Fetal and Neonatal Circulations and
Fetal Cardiac Surgery 52
Ashok Muralidaran Vadiyala Mohan Reddy and Frank L. Hanley
Chapter 4 Preoperative Diagnostic Evaluation 60
Lourdes R. Prieto Marcy L. Schwartz Richard Sterba Janine Arruda
and Tamar J. Preminger
Chapter 5 Hybrid Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease 84
Mark Galantowicz John P. Cheatham Alistair Phillips Ralf J. Holzer
Sharon L. Hill and Vincent F. Olshove
Chapter 6 Anesthesia for the Patient with Congenital Heart
Disease 103
H. Jay Przybylo
Chapter 7 Perioperative Care 113
Carl L. Backer John M. Costello Jason M. Kane and Constantine
Mavroudis
Chapter 8 The Nurse Practitioner’s Role in Patient Management
143
Nancy Benson Denise Davis Fejeania Hunter Kim Teknipp and Jamie
Thomas
Chapter 9 Palliative Operations 155
Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 10 Management of Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass
169
Darryl H. Berkowitz and J. William Gaynor
Chapter 11 Intraoperative Myocardial Protection 214
Paul J. Chai
Chapter 12 Patent Ductus Arteriosus 225
Muhammad Ali Mumtaz Athar Qureshi Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L.
Backer
Chapter 13 Vascular Rings and Pulmonary Artery Sling 234
Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 14 Coarctation of the Aorta 256
Carl L. Backer Sunjay Kaushal and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 15 Interrupted Aortic Arch 283
Richard A. Jonas
Chapter 16 Atrial Septal Defect Partial Anomalous Pulmonary
Venous Connection and Scimitar Syndrome 295
Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 17 Ventricular Septal Defect 311
Constantine Mavroudis Carl L. Backer Jeffrey P. Jacobs and Robert
H. Anderson
Chapter 18 Atrioventricular Canal Defects 342
Carl L. Backer and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 19 Truncus Arteriosus 361
Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L. Backer
Chapter 20 Aortopulmonary Window and Aortic Origin of a
Pulmonary Artery 376
Stephanie Fuller and J. William Gaynor
Chapter 21 Isolated Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
385
John M. Karamichalis Jeffrey R. Darst Max B. Mitchell and David R.
Clarke
Chapter 22 Tetralogy of Fallot 410
Robert D. Stewart Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L. Backer
Chapter 23 Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Atresia with
Ventricular Septal Defect 428
Vadiyala Mohan Reddy and Frank L. Hanley
Chapter 24 Ventricular to Pulmonary Artery Conduits 443
John W. Brown Osama M. Eltayeb Mark Ruzmetov Mark D. Rodefeld and
Mark W. Turrentine
Chapter 25 Double-Outlet Ventricles 457
Henry L. Walters III and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 26 Transposition of the Great Arteries 492
Constantine Mavroudis and Carl L. Backer
Chapter 27 Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great
Arteries 530
Eric J. Devaney and Edward L. Bove
Chapter 28 The Functionally Univentricular Heart and Fontan’s
Operation 542
Marshall L. Jacobs
Chapter 29 Ebstein Anomaly 571
Morgan L. Brown and Joseph A. Dearani
Chapter 30 Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction 588
Christo I. Tchervenkov Pierre-Luc Bernier Danny Del Duca Samantha
Hill Noritaka Ota and Constantine Mavroudis
Chapter 31 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 619
Jennifer C. Hirsch Eric J. Devaney Richard G. Ohye and Edward L.
Bove
Chapter 32 Aortico-Left Ventricular Tunnel 636
Stephanie Fuller and Thomas L. Spray
Chapter 33 Congenital Anomalies of the Mitral Valve 640
Richard D. Mainwaring and John J. Lamberti
Chapter 34 Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection 659
Nicola Viola and Christopher A. Caldarone
Chapter 35 Cor Triatriatum Sinister Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
Atresia of the Common Pulmonary Vein and Cor Triatriatum Dexter
674
Ralph E. Delius and Henry L. Walters iii
Chapter 36 Anomalous Systemic Venous Connections 685
Henry L. Walters III and Ralph E. Delius
Chapter 37 Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm 704
W. Steves Ring
Chapter 38 Coronary Artery Anomalies 715
Constantine Mavroudis Ali Dodge-Khatami Carl L. Backer and Richard
Lorber
Chapter 39 Cardiac Tumors 744
Rüdiger Lange and Thomas Günther
Chapter 40 Diseases of the Pericardium 758
Victor O. Morell and Ergin Kocyildirim
Chapter 41 Surgical Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias 769
Constantine Mavroudis Barbara J. Deal and Carl L. Backer
Chapter 42 Heart Transplantation 813
Joseph W. Rossano David L.S. Morales and Charles D. Fraser Jr
Chapter 43 Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation 827
Dewei Ren George B. Mallory Jr David L.S. Morales and Jeffrey S.
Heinle
Chapter 44 Infective Endocarditis 845
Muhammad Ali Mumtaz Lara Danziger- Isakov Constantine Mavroudis and
Carl L. Backer
Chapter 45 Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support 856
Brian W. Duncan
Chapter 46 Adult Congenital Heart Disease 867
Stamatia Prapa Konstantinos Dimopoulos Darryl F. Shore Mario Petrou
and Michael A. Gatzoulis
Index 910
EDITED BY
CONSTANTINE MAVROUDIS, MD
Director, Congenital Heart Institute, Florida Hospital for
Children
Site Director, Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Surgery, Florida
Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA
CARL L. BACKER, MD
Division Head, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H.
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
“Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care.” (Kingbook73's Medical Ebook and Video Collection, 27 August 2014) “Overall, this is a reasonable update that brings this book current with the best examples of others in this area. It is large, complete, well illustrated, and readable, covering a very complex set of congenital anomalies.” (Doody’s, 10 January 2013)
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