4th Edition
by Robert H. Anderson (Editor), Kumar Krishna (Editor), Kathleen A. Mussato (Editor), Andrew Redington (Editor), James S. Tweddell (Editor), Justin Tretter (Editor)
As a leading reference on pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease, Anderson's Pediatric Cardiology provides
exhaustive coverage of potential pediatric cardiovascular anomalies,
potential sequelae related to these anomalies, comorbidities and
neurodevelopmental problems, and current methods for management and
treatment. The fully revised 4th Edition addresses significant and ongoing changes in practice,
including recent developments in fetal, neonatal, and adult congenital
heart conditions as well as expanded content on intensive care, nursing
issues, and societal implications. The outstanding illustration program provides superb visual guidance and is now supplemented with a remarkable collection of more than 350 professionally curated imaging and intra-operative surgical videos.
- Offers authoritative, long-term coverage of a broad spectrum of cardiology conditions,
including congenital heart disease, adult congenital heart disease
(ACHD), acquired heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and rhythm
disturbances.
- Features exquisite specimen images by Dr.
Robert Anderson and Diane Spicer dissected in easily recognizable
analogous imaging planes. These are included in the over 850 anatomic,
photographic, imaging, and algorithmic figures, and incorporate new images using virtual dissections of 3D datasets obtained in living patients.
- An extensive new section describing the non-cardiac consequences of congenital cardiac disease and other related issues Outside the Heart, including
new chapters on quality improvement in congenital cardiac disease,
models of care delivery, neurocognitive assessment and outcomes,
psychosocial issues for patients and families, ethics, nursing
implications, acute and chronic renal complications, and telemedicine.
- Three entirely new, expanded sections on the Functionally Univentricular Heart, Fetal Congenital Cardiac Disease, and Heart Failure and Transplantation.
- Provides a new focus on patient and family-centered care with expert advice on how to communicate difficult diagnoses to patients and families.
- Features new integration of nursing content
into all disease-specific chapters, as well as updated content on
genetics, congenital heart disease and follow-up, and new imaging
modalities.
- Contains chapters on new and emerging topics
such as MRI and Quantifying the Fetal Circulation in Congenital Cardiac
Disease; Congenital Anomalies of the Coronary Arteries; and The Global
Burden of Pediatric Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiac Care in Low- and
Middle-Income Countries
- Shares the experience and knowledge of an international team of multidisciplinary experts in medicine and advanced practice nursing.
