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,…
Preparing the Young Adult with Complex Congenital Cardiac Disease to Transfer from Paediatric to Adult Care
Most children born with congenitally malformed hearts now survive to adult life, as a result of the spectacular achievements of paediatric cardiology and surgery over the past half-century. This has…
Abnormal Positions and Relationships of the Heart
An abnormally positioned heart is not in itself a malformation of major significance. The exceptions are the extreme examples of exteriorisation of the heart, usually described as ectopia cordis ,…
Ventricular Septal Defects
Holes between the ventricles can occur as isolated anomalies, but are also seen in association with many other defects. For example, they are found as integral parts of entities such…
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…
