"Functionally" Single Ventricle

Auteur
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.

Texte du rabat

"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.

Contenu

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