Preface to the third edition | |
Preface to the first edition | |
General cardiology | |
Incidence, aetiology and recurrence of congenital heart disease | p. 3 |
The fetal circulation and the changes at birth in relation to congenital heart disease | p. 10 |
Normal haemodynamics: the generation of heart sounds and murmurs | p. 15 |
Cardiac investigations | p. 22 |
Cardiac surgery | p. 57 |
Congenital cardiac defects | |
Acyanotic lesions with left-to-right shunts | p. 71 |
Acyanotic lesions with left heart obstruction | p. 108 |
Acyanotic lesions with right heart abnormalities | p. 136 |
Cyanotic lesions with diminished pulmonary blood flow | p. 148 |
Cyanotic lesions with increased pulmonary blood flow | p. 170 |
Cardiac lesions with common mixing | p. 186 |
Complex lesions, malposition and malconnection | p. 210 |
Miscellaneous congenital abnormalities | p. 221 |
Special problems | |
Heart disease in the newborn infant | p. 231 |
Heart failure in infancy and childhood | p. 249 |
Pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonate and the Eisenmenger syndrome | p. 254 |
Complications of congenital heart disease | p. 262 |
Disorders of cardiac rhythm | p. 275 |
Rheumatic fever and chorea | p. 293 |
Myocardial and pericardial disease | p. 299 |
Cardiac abnormalities associated with systemic diseases or syndromes | p. 319 |
Psychosocial and primary care problems of congenital heart disease | p. 335 |
Preventive cardiology | p. 345 |
Index | p. 355 |
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