"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect - Softcover

Corno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443240981 ISBN 13: 9780443240980

Publisher: Academic Press, 2025

Synopsis

"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect covers the most recent knowledge, methodologies, and techniques for diagnosing, managing, and treating pediatric patients with the "functionally" single ventricle congenital heart defect. The book covers epidemiology, ethnicity, racial issues, socioeconomic factors, fetal diagnosis, interventions, various treatment options available to pediatric patients, currently obtainable outcomes, and rescue plans after failure of conventional managements. In addition, it offers the potential for a wide range of future studies. Clinicians and researchers alike will find this title to be an invaluable one-stop resource for improving outcomes of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect.

• Summarizes all information currently available on single ventricle
• Includes all age-related aspects, from the fetal diagnosis through adolescent life
• Covers all factors, including genetics, ethnicity, race, gender, associated cardiac and non-cardiac malformations, diagnostic and interventional procedures, natural history, and outcomes of the available treatments available for all medical professionals caring for these children
• Lays the groundwork for potential future research

About this title

About the Author

Antonio F. Corno, MD, FRCS (Glasgow), FETCS, FACC, is an internationally respected professor, educator, researcher, scientist, and surgeon with congenital heart disease expertise. He received his MD and Specialist Degree in Cardiac Surgery, cum laude, from the University of Pavia, Italy, a Specialist Degree in Thoracic Surgery, cum laude, from the University Siena, Italy, and Privat-Docent in Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Corno has completed over 3000 congenital heart defect surgical procedures during his career and has been instrumental in opening multiple pediatric cardiac surgical units worldwide. He has published numerous books, chapters, peer-reviewed articles & editorials/commentaries on clinical and scientific research and serves as chief editor and editorial board member/reviewer of several international medical journals.

From the Back Cover

"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect brings together the most recent knowledge, methodologies, and techniques related to diagnosing, managing, and treating pediatric patients with the "functionally" single ventricle congenital heart defect. It will cover all aspects from epidemiology, ethnicity and racial issues, socio-economic factors, fetal diagnosis and interventions, various treatment options available to pediatric patients, currently obtainable outcomes, as well as rescue plans after failure of conventional managements. Further it will offer the potential for a wide range of future studies. Clinicians and researchers alike will find this title to be an invaluable one-stop resource for improving outcomes of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443240981
• ISBN 13: 9780443240980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 510