FRCS Corno MD (Glasgow)

"Functionally" Single Ventricle (eBook, ePUB)

The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect covers the most recent knowledge, methodologies, and techniques for diagnosing, managing, and treating pediatric patients with the "functionally" single ventricle congenital heart defect. The book covers epidemiology, ethnicity, racial issues, socioeconomic factors, fetal diagnosis, interventions, various treatment options available to pediatric patients, currently obtainable outcomes, and rescue plans after failure of conventional managements. In addition, it offers the potential for a wide range of future studies. Clinicians and researchers alike will find this title to be an invaluable one-stop resource for improving outcomes of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect. - Summarizes all information currently available on single ventricle - Includes all age-related aspects, from the fetal diagnosis through adolescent life - Covers all factors, including genetics, ethnicity, race, gender, associated cardiac and non-cardiac malformations, diagnostic and interventional procedures, natural history, and outcomes of the available treatments available for all medical professionals caring for these children - Lays the groundwork for potential future research

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443240997
• Artikelnr.: 73486591

Autorenporträt

Antonio F. Corno, MD, FRCS (Glasgow), FETCS, FACC, is an internationally respected professor, educator, researcher, scientist, and surgeon with congenital heart disease expertise. He received his MD and Specialist Degree in Cardiac Surgery, cum laude, from the University of Pavia, Italy, a Specialist Degree in Thoracic Surgery, cum laude, from the University Siena, Italy, and Privat-Docent in Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Corno has completed over 3000 congenital heart defect surgical procedures during his career and has been instrumental in opening multiple pediatric cardiac surgical units worldwide. He has published numerous books, chapters, peer-reviewed articles & editorials/commentaries on clinical and scientific research and serves as chief editor and editorial board member/reviewer of several international medical journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Definition and terminology
2. Epidemiology
3. Genetics
4. Morphology
5. Associated cardiac and non-cardiac malformations
6. Fetal diagnosis
7. Ethical implications of fetal diagnosis
8. Fetal interventions
9. Fetal brain damages
10. Post-natal diagnosis
11. Pathophysiology
12. Neonatal care
13. Required diagnostic information for decision-making
14. Anesthesia
15. Interventional cardiology procedures
16. Surgical procedures, including neonatal palliations, hybrid procedures,
bidirectional Glenn and variations, Fontan completion, biventricular repair
17. Peri-operative management
18. Interstage monitoring
19. Required post-operative diagnostic information
20. Fontan failure, with Fontan take-down and conversion, and mechanical
circulatory support
21. Transplantation, including heart, heart and lung, heart and liver
22. Exercise
23. Pregnancy
24. Adolescents and adults without Fontan completion
25. Psychological aspects
26. Role of the families
27. Neurodevelopmental outcomes
28. Management in low-income countries
29. Comparative medicine
30. Future studies