edited by
Robert E. Shaddy
and Gil Wernovsky
Pediatric Heart Failure:
- studies the latest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, and acquired inflammatory heart disease in children
- compares the fundamental differences between heart failure in patients with single ventricle lesions and in children and young adults with other types of heart disease
- contains unique perspectives on alterations in cardiac function that occur after heart transplantation in children
- offers a comprehensive review of the causes and treatment of heart failure in the fetus
- presents a state-of-the-art diagnostic and management strategy for the care of a postoperative child with low cardiac output syndrome
- offers a detailed review of cancer-related cardiotoxicities in children
- provides a unique framework for understanding the developmental, cellular, neurohormonal, and immunologic mechanisms of pediatric heart failure, as well as recent findings on the genetic aspects of heart failure
Pediatric Heart Failure describes current diagnostic and treatment strategies for acute and chronic heart failure in the fetus, neonate, child, and young adult-encompassing every aspect of pediatric heart failure including historical perspectives, the latest technologies in mechanical circulatory support, and recent information on the psychosocial aspects of heart failure in children.
Contents:
- Heart failure - a historical perspective
- Developmental aspects of cardiac performance
- Cellular and molecular aspects of myocardial dysfunction
- Neurohormonal and immunologic aspects of pediatric heart failure
- Genetics of pediatric heart failure
- Heart failure in the fetus
- Heart failure in the neonate
- Metabolic causes of pediatric heart failure
- Cardiomyopathy and myocarditis
- Inflammatory causes of pediatric heart failure : rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, and Kawasaki disease
- Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in pediatric heart failure
- Single ventricle lesions
- Right-sided heart failure
- Chronic heart failure in congenital heart disease
- Medical management of chronic systolic left ventricular dysfunction in children
- Nutritional aspects of pediatric heart failure
- Heart failure postpediatric heart transplantation
- Cancer treatment-related cardiotoxicities
- Coronary artery abnormalities
- Heart failure in the postoperative patient
- Ventricular assist devices
- Psychosocial aspects of acute and chronic heart failure in children
- Heart failure in the adult with congenital heart disease (ACHD)
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