Part I. Evaluation of the patient. Clinical history and physical examination -- Electrocardiography -- The role of echocardiography -- Basics of exercise testing -- Chest radiography -- Cardiac MR imaging and CT -- Laboratory studies -- Part II. Common signs and symptoms. Chest pain -- Syncope -- Palpitations and arrhythmia -- Heart murmur -- Evaluation of the neonate with congenital heart disease -- Part III. Congenital heart disease. Fetal and newborn transitional circulations -- Neonatal screening for heart disease -- Surgical procedures for congenital heart disease -- Office care of the child after cardiac surgery -- Common syndromes associated with cardiac lesions -- Adults with congenital heart disease -- Congenital heart lesions -- Aortic valve problems, including bicuspid aortic valve and subaortic membranes -- Atrial septal defects -- Atrioventricular canal defects -- Coarctation of the aorta -- "congenitally corrected" transposition of the great arteries -- Mitral valve anomalies -- Patent ductus arteriosus -- Patent foramen ovale -- Pulmonary stenosis -- Single-ventricle lesions -- Systemic and pulmonary vein anomalies -- Tetralogy of Fallot -- Transposition of the great arteries -- Tricuspid valve anomalies -- Truncus arteriosus -- Vascular rings and slings -- Ventricular septal defects -- Part IV. Cardiomyopathies and channelopathies. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- Dilated cardiomyopathy -- Restrictive cardiomyopathy -- Noncompaction cardiomyopathy -- Long QT syndrome and other channelopathies -- Part V. Acquired cardiac diseases. Kawasaki disease -- Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease -- Cardiotoxicity among survivors of childhood cancer -- Part VI. Infectious diseases. Vaccines for patients with cardiac conditions -- Lyme carditis -- Endocarditis -- Prevention of bacterial endocarditis -- Myocarditis -- Pericardial diseases -- Part VII. Preventive cardiology. Dyslipidemia -- Hypertension -- Cardiac screening prior to ADHD treatment -- Cardiac screening for athletic participation -- Autonomic dysfunction -- Part VIII. General issues in primary cardiac care. Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial outcomes in children with congenital heart disease -- Lifestyle counseling -- Cardiac pharmacology -- Transition and transfer from pediatric to adult-centered cardiac care -- Part IX. Special conditions. Cardiac transplantation -- Pulmonary hypertension.
Summary
"Learn from leading experts the latest information on cardiac issues seen most often in a pediatric office. The scope of focus includes signs and symptoms, management of patients with acquired or congenital heart disease, cardiac implications of common infectious diseases, preventive cardiology strategies, and other issues that are frequently managed or evaluated by the primary care clinician"--Publisher's description.
Note
Online resource; title from electronic title page (AAP, viewed August 22, 2018).
