Thoracic Key

Much has been learnt since the second edition of the book was published. It remains a fact that, as was emphasised at the start of this chapter in the second…

‘All these arrangements are marvellous, without any question. But we have to consider that it exceeds all expectations how soon the occlusion of all these openings takes place’. HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS…

In this chapter, we deal with one of the most complex, and difficult to treat surgically, of all congenital cardiac malformations. It is still frequent to find the lesion described…

The most common congenital malformations afflicting the tricuspid valve are Ebstein’s malformation and tricuspid valvar dysplasia. We will primarily consider Ebstein’s malfor mation in this chapter. Isolated dysplasia of the…

The concept of double outlet as a ventriculo-arterial connection has been well accepted for several decades. This is described elsewhere in this textbook (see Chapter 1 ). It may occur…

Holes between the atrial chambers are important congenital cardiac anomalies, both because they are relatively common, and because they are more nearly completely correctable than most other cardiac malformations, the…

In this chapter, we deal with abnormalities of position and connection of the major systemic venous channels that drain to the heart, and also with abnormal persistence of the valves…

It has long been recognised that congenital absence of the spleen, or the presence of multiple spleens, is associated with severe congenital malformations of the heart. 1–3 Some of the…

Since the late 1970s, perhaps the most important change in the practice of clinical paediatric cardiology has been the introduction of cross sectional echocardiography, with this advance then being facilitated…

Rather than being a single lesion, the entity usually described as hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a group of conditions with characteristic anatomical, physiological, and clinical properties. The earliest grouping…