Heart Failure in Congenital Heart Disease:, 2011 From Fetus to Adult

This book will provide both an evidence base and practical recommendations for the treatment of patients with congenital heart disease. It will be a resource to all health care providers, including pediatric cardiologists, pediatric intensivists, pediatric heart surgeons, fetal specialists, maternal fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, nurses, advanced practice nurses, in addition to trainees in the field.

It will summarize world knowledge on the topic of heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease. It will provide an in depth analysis of the current methods of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. Now that surgical results are at record success rates, more patients with congenital heart disease are surviving, and thus at risk for sequelae from their disease, including heart failure.

It will provide evidence based and practical recommendations to the practitioner for the management of heart failure signs and symptoms.

State-of-the-art, in depth analysis of the current methods of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease

Includes in-depth information on sequelae following surgery including heart failure

Sections written by leaders in the field

Each aspect of heart failure in the patient with congenital heart disease presented broken down by age and disease status

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras