Cardiac Tumours
Cardiac tumours in infants and children are rare. Their atypical clinical presentation prevented timely diagnosis in the past, when cardiac tumours were often a postmortem finding. The widespread use of…
Cardiomyopathies
It has become evident that primary myocardial disease represents one of the more neglected aspects of heart disease today. It is often overlooked or misdiagnosed; in addition, it is frequently…
Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries
In this chapter, we will address the various congenital coronary arterial anomalies that may be found in the otherwise structurally normal heart. The coronary arterial circulations found specifically with major…
Rheumatic Fever
Rheumatic fever is an acute, diffuse, and non-suppurative inflammatory disease that occurs in susceptible individuals as a late complication after an untreated pharyngotonsillitis, the infection itself sometimes being asymptomatic. It…
Systemic Hypertension
Systemic hypertension is one of the commonest cardiovascular diseases in adults. Over the past decade, several advances have been made in evaluating the state of blood pressure in children. Paediatric…
Non-rheumatic Inflammatory Diseases of the Heart
In this chapter, I will discuss inflammatory diseases of the heart, excluding rheumatic fever (see Chapter 54A, Chapter 54B ), Kawasaki disease (see Chapter 52 ), and infectious endocarditis (see…
Infective Endocarditis
Infective endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endocardium. It is a serious and life-threatening disease which is uncommon in childhood. Endocardial infections were formerly known as bacterial endocarditis, but…
Anomalies of the Morphologically Mitral Valve
In this chapter, we discuss those lesions than afflict the morphologically mitral valve, the likeness to the episcopal mitre of this valve in the normal heart first being emphasised by…
Management of Congenital Heart Disease in Pregnancy
The successes of paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery have enabled a new cohort of women, born with congenitally malformed hearts, to reach adulthood. Many of these women differ both anatomically…
Pulmonary Stenosis
This chapter will discuss pulmonary stenosis, where it exists as an isolated finding. Where pulmonary stenosis exists as part of a more complex anomaly, such as tetralogy of Fallot, the…
