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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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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

1. History Taking

2. Physical Examination

3. Electrocardiography

4. Chest Radiography

PART 2 Special Tools in Evaluation of Cardiac Patients

5. Non-invasive Imaging Tools

6. Other Non-invasive 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

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