Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 4th Edition

Pediatric cardiac surgery is a dynamic, fast-moving field. Busy practitioners, like you, need clear and comprehensive guidance you can rely on to ensure optimal patient care. For over 25 years Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 4th Edition has been the gold-standard reference for pediatric and adult congenital heart surgeons, pediatric and congenital cardiologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, residents, and nurses.

Now, in this thoroughly revised fourth edition, you again get trusted, complete coverage of the field with timely new features and expert reviews of critical topics including heart transplantation, emerging modalities for diagnosing congenital heart and tracheal defects, the surgical technique of Fontan conversion with arrhythmia surgery, the medical challenges of managing adult CHD patients, and more.

THIS NEW EDITION INCLUDES:

• Contributions from over 65 world-renowned experts

• More beautiful illustrations, which have brought acclaim to previous editions owing to renowned
medical illustrator Rachid F. Idriss

• Reviews of embryology, physical findings, diagnostic criteria, and therapeutic choices for
each disease entity and the latest surgical techniques in each chapter

• All new chapters that guide readers through new treatment options and other key
developments since the publication of the third edition highlighting recent advances in
congenital heart surgery

• All new chapters that review advances in right ventricular to pulmonary artery conduits, arrhythmia surgery, double outlet ventricles, and adult congenital heart disease, among other key topics.

ALSO OF INTEREST:

Moller: Pediatric Cardiovascular Medicine, 2e;
ISBN: 978-1444-3358-97

Hoffman: The Natural and Unnatural History of
Congenital Heart Disease; ISBN 978-1-4051-7927-0

Lai: Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart
Disease; ISBN: 978-1-4051-7401-5

EDITED BY
CONSTANTINE MAVROUDIS, MD
Director, Congenital Heart Institute, Florida Hospital for Children
Site Director, Johns Hopkins Children’s Heart Surgery, Florida Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA

CARL L. BACKER, MD
Division Head, Cardiovascular-Thoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA