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Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners

  • 8th Edition - August 19, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Mehrdad Salamat, Myung K. Park
  • Language: English

The go-to reference of choice for pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs―as well as medical students, residents, and fellows, Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Pr… Read more

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Description

The go-to reference of choice for pediatricians, family practitioners, NPs, and PAs―as well as medical students, residents, and fellows, Park's Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners provides authoritative, everyday guidance on the diagnosis and management of children with congenital and acquired heart disease. The revised 8th Edition continues the tradition of excellence and remains the essential medical reference book on this subject for generalists. Covering everything from history and physical examination through preventative treatment and the management of special problems, it equips you to confidently assess patients and communicate clearly with families and colleagues.

Key features

  • Provides fundamental and practical information to help you recognize the key signs and symptoms of potential cardiac disease and determine whether the findings require a referral to a pediatric cardiologist for diagnosis and management
  • Incorporates all of the latest concepts and most recent developments in the field, including more emphasis on genetic considerations in cardiology
  • Includes new material on aortopathy, congenital coronary artery abnormalities, genetics of arrhythmias, and advanced imaging such as cardiac CTA and cardiac MRI, as well as many new color echocardiographic and CT images
  • Offers highly accessible content through the extensive use of numbered lists, easy-to-use tables, and explanatory graphs and diagrams, as well as practical appendices with suggested readings for non-specialists, risk factors, echocardiographic values, and more
  • Features a new, easier-to-use trim size, now in full-color throughout for greater readability and faster navigation
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish after the publication date

Readership

Pediatricians, Family Medicine, NPs, PAs, pediatric cardiologists (quick review)

Table of contents

PART 1 BASIC TOOLS IN ROUTINE EVALUATION OF CARDIAC PATIENTS
Chapter 1 History Taking
Chapter 2 Physical Examination
Chapter 3 Electrocardiography
Chapter 4 Chest Radiography

PART 2 SPECIAL TOOLS IN EVALUATION OF CARDIAC PATIENTS
Chapter 5 Noninvasive Imaging Tools
Chapter 6 Other Noninvasive Investigation Tools
Chapter 7 Invasive Procedures

PART 3 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
Chapter 8 Fetal and Perinatal Circulation
Chapter 9 Pathophysiology of Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions
Chapter 10 Pathophysiology of Obstructive and Valvular Regurgitant Lesions
Chapter 11 Pathophysiology of Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects

PART 4 SPECIFIC CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS
Chapter 12 Left-to-Right Shunt Lesions
Chapter 13 Obstructive Lesions
Chapter 14 Cyanotic Congenital Heart Defects
Chapter 15 Miscellaneous Congenital Cardiac Conditions
Chapter 16 Vascular Ring
Chapter 17 Chamber Localization and Cardiac Malposition

PART 5 ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE
Chapter 18 Primary Myocardial Disease
Chapter 19 Cardiovascular Infections
Chapter 20 Acute Rheumatic Fever
Chapter 21 Valvular Heart Disease
Chapter 22 Cardiac Tumors
Chapter 23 Cardiovascular Involvement in Systemic Diseases

PART 6 ARRHYTHMIAS AND ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES
Chapter 24 Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chapter 25 Disturbances of Atrioventricular Conduction
Chapter 26 Cardiac Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Children

PART 7 SPECIAL PROBLEMS
Chapter 27 Congestive Heart Failure
Chapter 28 Systemic Hypertension
Chapter 29 Pulmonary Hypertension
Chapter 30 The Child With Chest Pain
Chapter 31 Syncope
Chapter 32 Palpitation
Chapter 33 Dyslipidemia and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Chapter 34 Pediatric Preventive Cardiology
Chapter 35 Athletes With Cardiac Problems
Chapter 36 Cardiac Transplantation
Appendix A: Miscellaneous
Appendix B: Blood Pressure Values
Appendix C: Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Appendix D: Normal Echocardiographic Values
Appendix E: Drugs Used in Pediatric Cardiology
Suggested Readings
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 10, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

MS

Mehrdad Salamat

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Associate Professor Texas A&M University Health Science Center Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine College Station, Texas Attending Pediatric Cardiologist Driscoll Children's Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

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