Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

Edited by one of the leading authorities in the field, the Second Edition gives readers the broad, multi-disciplinary, and topic-oriented perspectives they need to offer patients care of the highest quality. All chapters have been painstakingly rewritten--and all illustrations meticulously reviewed--to ensure they reflect the full range of new advances in the field.
Reviews of the First Edition:
"Contains a vast amount of useful and extremely well-written information... Will undoubtedly improve the understanding of congenital heart disease in adult patients."
--Mayo Clinic Proceedings
"Dr. Perloff, Dr. Child and their colleagues have made another sizeable contribution to the care of the adult patient with congenital heart disease."
--Annals of Internal Medicinetwo new chapters, Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiology Imaging, and Neurologic Disorders.Presents a comprehensive examination of all aspects of the field, including basic unoperated malformations, medical and surgical perspectives, postoperative residua and sequelae, and more.
Contains a separate chapter on the noncardiac disorders that make cyanotic congenital heart disease in adults a multi-system disorder.Clarifies important material with more than 530 illustrations - many brand new - that depict virtually all imaging modalities in current use, plus much more.
Offers a great deal of previously unpublished data throughout.Discusses topics not comprehensively covered in other texts, such as Psychosocial Disorders and Normal Myocardiac Growth and the Development and Regression of Increased Ventricular Mass.
Includes extensive references to make further reading easy.