Highly useful guide for all members of a multidisciplinary team managing children suffering from heart disease

Built on the success of previous editions and brought to you by a stellar author team,Mollers Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Editionprovides a unique, concise, and extremely practical overview of heart disease in children. From history-taking, physical examination, ECG, and chest X-raythe basics that enable clinicians to uncover possible problems and eliminate areas of false concernthis work goes on to examine the range of more complex topics in the diagnosis and treatment/management of childhood cardiovascular disease.

Every chapter is fully updated with the very latest clinical guidelines and management options from the AHA, ACC, and ESC. Recent updates also include an enhanced section on imaging, including recent advances in cardiac MRI and fetal echocardiography, new techniques in genetic testing for heart disease in special populations, and much more emphasis on the importance of echocardiography in understanding the pathophysiology of congenital cardiac malformations. This work also includes an expanded section on cardiac conditions in the neonate, specifically on prenatal diagnosis and management, and neonatal screening for congenital heart disease.

Mollers Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Editionalso provides: Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children and environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children, conditions obstructing blood flow in children, and congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children, unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants, and the cardiac conditions acquired during childhood Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children and congestive heart failure in infants and children

Mollers Essentials of Pediatric Cardiology, 4th Editionis a succinct and accessible yet highly detailed and informative resource for treating children suffering from heart disease. It is an invaluable reference for anyone working on a multidisciplinary team treating patients with these attributes.

Walter H. Johnson, Jr., MD is Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Alabama Congenital Heart Disease Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Camden L. Hebson, MD is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Alabama Congenital Heart Disease Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Preface vii

1. Tools to diagnose cardiac conditions in children 1

2. Environmental and genetic conditions associated with heart disease in children 70

3. Classification and physiology of congenital heart disease in children 83

4. Anomalies with a left-to-right shunt in children 93

5. Conditions obstructing blood flow in children 146

6. Congenital heart disease with a right-to-left shunt in children 182

7. Unusual forms of congenital heart disease in children 230

8. Unique cardiac conditions in newborn infants 242

9. The cardiac conditions acquired during childhood 256

10. Abnormalities of heart rate and conduction in children 288

11. Congestive heart failure in infants and children 311

12. A healthy lifestyle and preventing heart disease in children 325

Additional reading 370

Index 371