Table of Contents: Preface
Chapter I. Ventricular-Vascular Pathophysiology in Children with Cardiovascular Disease; pp. 1-37
(Hideaki Senzaki, Dept. of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Univ., Saitama, Japan)
Chapter II. Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing in Children with Congenital Heart Disease; pp. 39-60
(A. Christian Blank, Tim Takken, Dept. of Pediatric Cardiology and Dept. of Pediatric Physical Therapy and Exercise Physiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Chapter III. Why the Diagnostic Algorithm in Children with CHD Should Include the Kidney?; pp. 61-78
(Ewa Krol, Piotr Czarniak, Boleshaw Rutkowski, Institute of Paediatrics AM in Gdansk)
Chapter IV. Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Fetal Heart Disease; pp. 79-95
(Shinro Matsuo and Nasima Akhter, Dept. of Biotracer Medicine, Kanazawa Univ. Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan)
Chapter V. Usefulness of Ultrasound Examination of Abdomen and Cranial in Neonates and Infants with New Recognized Congenital Heart Disease; pp. 97-111
(Piotr Czarniak and Wojciech Kosiak, Boleshaw Rutkowski, Institute of Paediatrics AM in Gdansk)
Chapter VI. Coincidence of Congenital and Acquired Anomalies of Kidney and Upper Urinary Tract in Neonates and Infants with Congenital Heart Disease; pp. 113-121
(Piotr Czarniak, Institute of Paediatrics AM in Gdansk)
Chapter VII. Genetics of Congenital Heart Diseases: Where Are We Now?; pp. 123-173
(Giuseppe Limongelli, Paolo Calabro, Valeria Maddaloni, Raffaella D'Alessandro, Giuseppe Pacileo, Raffaele Calabro, Monaldi Hospital, Second Univ. of Naples, Naples, Italy)
Chapter VIII. Sensitivity and Specificity of Three Different Methods for Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Diseases; pp. 175-188
(Martha A. Hernández-González*, Sergio Solorio*, Nilda Espínola-Zavaleta**, Víctor M. Jarquín-Pérez*, Blanca Murillo-Ortíz*, Leonel Daza-Benítez*, Luz Verónica Diaz de León*, Leticia Rodríguez-Mariscal *, Silvia Siu**, Aloha Meave-González** and Erick Alexanderson-Rosas**, *Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad No.1. Bajío, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), León, Guanajuato, México
**Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México City, México)
Chapter IX. Single Ventricle Anatomy, Physiology, Repair and Outcome; pp. 189-207
(Galina Leyvi, Clinical Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, John D. Wasnick, Clinical Anesthesiology, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center)
Chapter X. Multidector-Row Computed Tomography Evaluation in Congenital Heart Disease Patients - Additional Information to Echocardiology and Conventional Cardiac Characterization; pp. 209-229
(Yasunobi Hayabuchi, Miki Inoue, Miho Sakata, and Shoji Kagami, Dept. of Pediatrics, Univ. of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan)
Chapter XI. Three Dimensional Echocardiographic Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease: Initial Experience and Current Status with Real-Time Imaging; 231-251
(Mohamed Seliem, Anysia Fedec, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA)
Chapter XII. Absence of Atrioventricular Connexion; pp.253-276
(Luis Munoz Castellanos, Institute Nacional de Cardiologia, Ignacio Chavez, Magdalena Kuri Nivon, Dept. of Morphology, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Nilda Espinola Zavaleta, Echocardiography in out patients clinic, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Ignacio Chavez)
Chapter XIII. Aneurysmal formation in adults after correction of aortic coarctation; pp. 277-304
(Yskert von Kodolitsch, Alexander M. J. Bernhardt, Muhammed A. Aydin, Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Cardiology and Angiology at the University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg; Germany)
Chapter XIV. Surgical Palliative Options for Patients with Hypoplastic Left Heart; pp. 305-318
(Clifford L. Cua, Heart Center, Columbus Children's Hospital, Christopher L. Cua, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Faulkner Hospital, Lillian S. Lai, Section of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario)
Chapter XV. Cardiac Tumors - A Review; pp. 319-325
(Kalgi Modi, Prasanna Venkatesh, Division of Cardiology, Louisiana State Univ. Health Science Center, Shreveport, Louisiana)
Chapter XVI. Pulmonary Hypertension in the Down Syndrome Population; pp. 327-334
(Clifford L Cua, Louis G Chicoine, Leif D Nelin, Mary Mullen, Heart Center, Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston)
Chapter XVII. Atrioventricular Block During and After Trans-Catheter Closure of Ventricular Septal Defects: Mechanisms, Prevention and Treatment; pp. 335-341
(Zhi-Yuan Song, Lei Zhang, Dept. of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical Univ., Chongqing, P.R. China)
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