John Hess

Congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults - Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine John Hess 1992 edition

Marc Notes: Includes index.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: 1. The problem an overview.- 2. Pulmonary vascular disease in congenital heart disease in adults.- 3. The adolescent and adult with complex congenital heart disease: which patients should offer surgery?.- 4. Transoesophageal echocardiography in adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease.- 5. Magnetic resonance imaging.- 6. Interventional cardiac catheterization for primary or residual congenital cardiac lesions.- 7. Pulmonary atresia.- 8. The Fontan circulation.- 9. Non-invasive assessment of the Fontan circulation.- 10. Supraventricular arrhythmias in congenital heart disease.- 11. Ventricular arrhythmias after repair of congenital heart disease: who needs treatment?.- 12. Infective endocarditis: treatment and prophylaxis.- 13. Surgery for congenital heart disease in adults.- 14. Cardiac transplantation for congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults.- 15. Congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults: obstetric-gynaecologic counseling.- 16. Psychosocial aspects of congenital heart disease in adolescents and adults. Publisher Marketing: In this book an overview is given of the many new problems facing the adult and pediatric cardiologist as well as the cardiac surgeon in this rapidly increasing subgroup of the adolescent and adult cardiac population.

Contributor Bio:  Hess, John John Hess is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.