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Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners

  • 7th Edition - June 4, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Myung K. Park, Mehrdad Salamat
  • Language: English

Providing authoritative, everyday guidance in the diagnosis and management of children with congenital and acquired heart disease, Park’s Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioner… Read more

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Providing authoritative, everyday guidance in the diagnosis and management of children with congenital and acquired heart disease, Park’s Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners is the go-to reference of choice for pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs—as well as medical students, residents, and fellows. The 7th Edition of this core text comprehensively covers every aspect of pediatric cardiology in an easy-to-read, practical manner for the non-specialist, bringing you completely up to date with all that’s new in this fast-changing field.

Key features

  • Covers everything from history and physical examination through preventative treatment and the management of special problems
  • Incorporates all of the latest concepts and most recent developments in pediatric cardiology
  • Offers highly accessible content through the extensive use of numbered lists, easy-to-use tables, and explanatory graphs and diagrams
  • Features new chapter outlines, as well as a new larger size and two-color format for greater readability
  • Provides fresh perspectives and expertise from new author Dr. Mehrdad Salamat, who joins Dr. Park for this 7th Edition
  • Synthesizes the most important references for generalists in a Suggested Readings section, ideal for additional reading in greater depth
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs and PAs

Table of contents

PART 1 Basic Tools in Routine Evaluation of Cardiac Patients

1. History Taking

2. Physical Examination

3. Electrocardiography

4. Chest Radiography

PART 2 Special Tools in Evaluation of Cardiac Patients

5. Noninvasive Imaging Tools

6. Other Noninvasive Investigation Tools

7. Invasive Procedures

PART 3 Pathophysiology

8. Fetal and Perinatal Circulation

9. Pathophysiology of Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions

10. Pathophysiology of Obstructive and Valvular Regurgitant Lesions

11. Pathophysiology of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects

PART 4 Specific Congenital Heart Defects

12. Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions

13. Obstructive Lesions

14. Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects

15. Miscellaneous Congenital Cardiac Conditions

16. Vascular Ring

17. Chamber Localization and Cardiac Malposition

PART 5 Acquired Heart Disease

18. Primary Myocardial Disease

19. Cardiovascular Infections

20. Acute Rheumatic Fever

21. Valvular Heart Disease

22. Cardiac Tumors

23. Cardiovascular Involvement in Systemic Diseases

PART 6 Arrhythmias and Atrioventricular Conduction Disturbances

24. Cardiac Arrhythmias

25. Disturbances of Atrioventricular Conduction

26. Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter– Defibrillators in Children

PART 7 Special Problems

27. Congestive Heart Failure

28. Systemic Hypertension

29. Pulmonary Hypertension

30. The Child with Chest Pain

31. Syncope

32. Palpitation

33. Dyslipidemia and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors

34. Pediatric Preventive Cardiology

35. Athletes with Cardiac Problems

36. Cardiac Transplantation

APPENDICES
A. Miscellaneous
B. Blood Pressure Values
C. Cardiovascular Risk Factors
D. Normal Echocardiographic Values
E. Drugs Used in Pediatric Cardiology

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 10, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

MP

Myung K. Park

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus (Pediatrics), Former Director of Pediatric Cardiology, Former Director of Preventative Cardiology and Weight Management Clinics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA

MS

Mehrdad Salamat

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, USA