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…
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,…
