Straddling Atrioventricular Valves
The entities to be considered in this chapter differ from all those others considered in this section of our book devoted to specific lesions. This is because hearts with straddling…
Growth and Nutrition
Nutrition is fundamental for ensuring adequate energy for basal metabolism, growth, and physical activity. Infants and children possess high metabolic rates and limited reserves of endogenous substrates at baseline, and…
Communication with the Referring Teams Providing Health Care
Communication between the cardiologist and providers of primary care is an essential component of the medical care of the patient, and is of increasing importance in the current era, which…
Ethics and Consent
In his introduction to the equivalent of this chapter in the second edition of this book, G. R. Dunstan 1 pointed out the increasing role and understanding of ethical principles…
Psychological and Social Aspects of Paediatric Cardiac Disease
What are the outcomes that really matter to patients, families, and societies living with the implications of congenital and acquired paediatric cardiac disease? Survival and physiological function are certainly paramount….
Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki disease was first described in 1967, by a Japanese paediatrician, Tomisako Kawasaki. 1 He characterised the illness, then termed mucutaneous lymph node syndrome, as including high fever, non-exudative conjunctivitis,…
Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Pulmonary hypertension describes a number of different diseases involving the pulmonary vasculature, which have haemodynamic, histological, and therapeutic features in common. The hallmark of these diseases is an abnormally high…
Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Stenosis
Even though, as stated by Lev and Eckner, 1 no two cases are exactly the same, it is the characteristic anatomy that permits the instant recognition of the tetralogy of…
Cardiological Aspects of Systemic Disease
Cardiac involvement in systemic disease can be broadly divided into those conditions in which the heart is involved in the disease process itself, and those in which a structural or…
Pulmonary Venous Abnormalities
In this chapter, we consider abnormalities of the pulmonary veins, in particular their anomalous connections to the systemic venous system. The variant of partially anomalous pulmonary venous connection associated with…
