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"Functionally" Single Ventricle

The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect

  • 1st Edition - February 26, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Antonio F. Corno
  • Language: English

"Functionally" Single Ventricle: The Most Complex Congenital Heart Defect covers the most recent knowledge, methodologies, and techniques for diagnosing, managing, and treat… Read more

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Description

"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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Clinicians involved in the care of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect and researchers of complex congenital heart defects, Nurses and technicians involved in the care of pediatric patients with this complex congenital heart defect and other professionals interested in complex congenital heart defects.

Table of contents

1. Definition and terminology

2. Epidemiology

3. Genetics

4. Morphology

5. Associated cardiac and non-cardiac malformations

6. Fetal diagnosis

7. Ethical implications of fetal diagnosis

8. Fetal interventions

9. Fetal brain damages

10. Post-natal diagnosis

11. Pathophysiology

12. Neonatal care

13. Required diagnostic information for decision-making

14. Anesthesia

15. Interventional cardiology procedures

16. Surgical procedures, including neonatal palliations, hybrid procedures, bidirectional Glenn and variations, Fontan completion, biventricular repair

17. Peri-operative management

18. Interstage monitoring

19. Required post-operative diagnostic information

20. Fontan failure, with Fontan take-down and conversion, and mechanical circulatory support

21. Transplantation, including heart, heart and lung, heart and liver

22. Exercise

23. Pregnancy

24. Adolescents and adults without Fontan completion

25. Psychological aspects

26. Role of the families

27. Neurodevelopmental outcomes

28. Management in low-income countries

29. Comparative medicine

30. Future studies

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 27, 2025
  • Language: English

About the author

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Antonio F. Corno

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Cardiovascular Sciences, Department of Life and Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K. and Honorary Professor, School of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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