Title: Fundamentals of pediatric cardiology /
Authors: Driscoll, David J.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Pediatric cardiology.; Heart Diseases; Child; Infant
Abstract: This concise text can be read cover-to-cover during a pediatric cardiology residency rotation and focuses sharply on what primary care physicians need to know for initial evaluation and management of infants, children, and adolescents with heart disease.
Contents: Cardiovascular physiology -- Clinical evaluation -- Basic diagnostic studies -- Pediatric exercise testing -- Innocent murmurs -- Chest pain -- Syncope and sudden death -- Principals of inheritance and genetics of congenital heart disease -- Left-to-right shunts -- Right-to-left shunts -- Obstructive and regurgitant lesions -- Acquired heart diseases -- Cardiomyopathy -- Coronary artery anomalies.